在1957年到1961年期间,数量社会科学开始进入美国的历史学。1957年,受过社会学训练的历史学家本森(LeeBenson)发表了一篇文章,彻底批评了“印象主义派”对美国十九世纪选举的论述,并号召史学家把原始资料的范围从报纸和手稿扩大到可以用数量来表示的资 Between 1957 and 1961, the number of social sciences began to enter the history of the United States. In 1957, sociologically trained historian Lee Benson published an article that thoroughly criticized the Impressionists’ account of the nineteenth century election in the United States and urged historians to shift the scope of the source material from newspaper And the manuscripts were expanded to numbers that can be expressed