Winkler, Karen. "After Postmodernism: a Historian Reflects on Where the Field Is Going." CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION January 4, 2009.

In her presidential address to the American Historical Association here Saturday night, Gabrielle M. Spiegel, a professor of history at the Johns Hopkins University, provided a valedictory goodbye to postmodernist theory. Surveying the influence of what Richard Rorty once called “the linguistic turn” in the humanities, Ms. Spiegel, a well-known theorist who has written extensively about how language has shaped the writing of history, noted that “we all sense this profound change has run its course.” “The whole influence of poststructuralist and postmodernist historiography is receding,” she said. “What is worth saving?” . . . Read the rest here: http://chronicle.com/news/article/5733/after-postmodernism-a-historian-reflects-on-where-the-field-is-going.