Some recent historians have argued that life in the
British colonies in America from approximately 1763 to
1789 was marked by internal conflicts among colonists.
Inheritors of some of the viewpoints of early twentieth-
century Progressive historians such as Beard and Becker,
these recent historians have put forward arguments that
deserve evaluation.
2.The author most likely refers to "historians such as
Beard and Becker" in the first paragraph in order to
(A) isolate the two historians whose work is most
representative of the viewpoints of Progressive
historians
(B) emphasize the need to find connections between
recent historical writing and the work of
earlier historians
(C) make a case for the importance of the views
of the Progressive historians concerning
eighteenth-century American life
(D) suggest that Progressive historians were the first
to discover the particular internal conflicts in
eighteenth-century American life mentioned
in the passage
(E) point out historians whose views of history
anticipated some of the views of the recent
historians mentioned in the passage |