Hendrik Willem Van Loon And Popular History

" Popular history" has been proposed, it has been gradually accepted by theacademic circles and the adoption in twentieth Century. Public history refers to thesocial public’s history activity, is easy to understand, easy to understand way todescribe the knowledge of history, historiography has reached the popularity ofhistorical knowledge of the objective. Public history and historiography. History is itsessential characteristic, popularity is its form of expression. Historians have a twofoldtask history of academic research and historical knowledge popularization andimprovement, history of academic research is the professional responsibility,knowledge is its social responsibility. The development of academic studies cannot dowithout historical knowledge, historical knowledge to improve academic researchbetter, two are equally important in the development of historiography, areindispensable. Research on mass historiography history not only has academicsignificance, but also has social value. This article tries to famous popular historianHendrik William van Loon as an example, the history of how popular a preliminarystudy, attempt to fill the gaps in our academic circles in the field of van Loon andpublic history.This article mainly uses the literature analysis, historical materialism anddialectical materialism, measurement method, comparative method, supplemented bythe relevant theory of intercultural communication and mass culture of van Loon andhistoriography interdisciplinary.It was American society that began to form, mass culture era, and van Loon--"New Historioy" at the same time history of the evolution of the academic experienceof life, resulted in mass historiography achievements in the field of van loon. He canachieve such status and history of ideology is the important. Van Loon advocated theview of historical progress, pragmatic view of history, the overall narration,truth-seeking and innovation knowledge, rational view of materialism. The works inthe compiling feature of van Loon good exudes a unique charm, including the grandhistorical narrative, the objective evaluation method, multiple narrative tactics andmultidisciplinary explanatory style. At the same time, try to do some analysis of vanLoon write history and historical heritage, the final evaluation of van Loon masshistoriography achievements do reasonable.