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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 November 2010
1 SHGAPE sponsored a panel honoring Robert Wiebe for his seminal book, The Search for Order, 1877–1920 (New York, 1967) during the 1997 AHA Annual Meeting held in New York City, (January 3, 1997). The papers presented during this panel by Ixon Fink, Martin Sklar, and Robyn Muncy are published on the H-SHGAPE website located at http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/-shgape/wiebe/index.html Muncy's paper praises Wiebe's work, but also highlights its limited attention to female progressives; Robyn Muncy, “The Search for Order Reconsidered,” paper presented at the 1997 AHA meeting, January 3, 1997, http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/-shgape/wiebe/muncy.html
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