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Why the History Department will come to look more and more like the English Department
| It has been over forty years since Hayden White called upon historians to preside over 'the dissolution of history's claim to autonomy among the disciplines' and the reestablishment of historical studies on a basis "consonant with the aims and purposes of the intellectual community at large." Nothing even remotely like that happened, of course, but that may be, as I will suggest in this paper, that White simply spoke a half-century too soon.
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