Historians' Selves, Historical Selves
Required Reading
Carolyn Steedman, Landscape for a Good Woman (1987)—available for purchase.
Further Suggestions
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1907; 1919).
James Barrett, “The Blessed Virgin Made Me a Socialist Historian: An Experiment in Autobiography and the Historiography of Race and Class,” in Faith and the Historian, Nick Salvatore, ed. (2007)—the other contributions are also of interest, but they don't have quite such snazzy titles!
Paul A. Cimbala and Robert F. Himmelberg, eds. Historians and Race: Autobiography and the Writing of History (Bloomington, 1996).
John Hope Franklin, Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin (2005); for some indication of how readers respond to him, see this website.
Saul Friedländer, When Memory Comes (1979).
Jan Goldstein, The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750-1870 (2005).
Catherine Hall, "Feminism and Feminist History" in her White, Male, and Middle Class: Explorations in Feminism and History (1992); see also the Introduction to her Civilizing Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-1867 (2002).
Eric Hobsbawm, Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life (2002).
Georg and Wilma Iggers, Two Lives in Uncertain Times: Facing the Challenges of the Twentieth Century as Scholars and Citizens (2006).
Gerda Lerner, Fireweed: A Political Autobiography (2002).
Gerda Lerner, Why History Matters: Life and Thought (1997).
George Mosse, Confronting History (2000).
Luisa Passerini, Autobiography of a Generation: Italy, 1968 (1988; trans. 2004).
Jeremy Popkin, History, Historians, and Autobiography (2005).
Sheila Rowbotham, Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties (2002).
Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self: the Making of Modern Identity (1989).
Dror Wahrman, Making of the Modern Self (2005).
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