title: History: Professional Scholarship in America
author:  John Higham 
description: <P>"No one writes more thoughtfully or interestingly about the history of the profession than Higham does."</P> (Laurence Veysey, University of California, Santa Cruz)<br /><br /><P>"A classic in the field, probably the best overall picture of American historiography we have."</P> (Richard L. Bushman, University of Delaware)
zlib_text: Great Minds Part II:
  The Age of Faith to the
  Age of Reason
  SUPERSTARTEACHERS TM
  The Teaching Company
  
  About the Professors
  Darren M. Staloff, Ph. D.
  Assistant Professor of History,
  The City College of New York
  Darren Staloff received his A.B. from Columbia College in 1983 and
  his M.A. from Columbia University in 1985. He then went on to
  receive his M. Phil. in 1986 and his Ph.D. in 1991, both from
  Columbia University.
  Currently an assistant professor at the City College of New York,
  Staloff recently served as a Post-Doctoral Felow at the Institute for
  Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg, Virginia. He
  also spent three years as a preceptor of Contemporary Civilization at
  Columbia University.
  Professor Staloff has also been the recipient of such fellowships and
  awards as the National Endowment of Humanities Fellow ( 1992),
  the President's Fellow at Columbia University (1984-1985), and as a
  Harry J. Carman Scholar at Columbia University (1983-1984).
  Papers that Staloff has a