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by redtexture 1420 days ago
History PhDs often break new ground.

I believe more than a few scientific PhDs do as well, and more than a few can become journal articles, or amount to a compilation of previously successfully accepted journal articles.

This item, an outstanding PhD thesis of an outstanding historian.

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War

Eric Foner