The American Pageant Revisited: Recollections of a Stanford Historian

The American Pageant Revisited recounts Thomas Bailey's development as a historian and his fifty years at Stanford, first as a student and later as a teacher. In his unique and lively style, Dr. Bailey recollects his youth near San Jose, California, his days as a student at Stanford and Berkeley during the 1920s, and his teaching and professional career at the University of Hawaii, Stanford, and Harvard. Interspersed are comments on teachers and teaching, history and historians, students, education, books, writing, publishing, research, and current events.