To the Editor:
The September 2012 issue [of Perspectives on History] was especially good: An elegant essay by our president, complemented nicely by James Oakes’s piece, and surrounded by a host of readable articles.
Having in mind also some recent issues of the American Historical Review, one might be inclined to take a somewhat Whiggish view of historiographical developments in the past half-century or so.
Trygve Tholfsen
New York, NY