Tracing the evolution of the American historical profession in regard to objectivity in historiography, discusses on pp. 172-174 the difficulties in the promotion of Jews in the historical field as an effect of strong antisemitic prejudices in the 1930s in American academic circles. On pp. 338-341 and pp. 365-366, comments on cases of antisemitic stances adopted by American historians in the 1950s-60s.