韓牧(John Higham)與美國進步派史學

This essay aims to introduce the historian John Higham and the American Progressive History. The focus of the discourses just as follow: A) The origin of the American Progressive History, and it's very concepts of history such as relativism, pragmatism, presentism and the ”conflict” history. B) John Higham, his major studies and two of his main works--Strangers in the Land (1955), and History: Professional Scholarship in America (1965). As Dorothy Ross said, John Higham is ”a pathbreaking scholar of American culture and ethnicity and a leading critical voice in the discipline”.