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A Restless Past
History and the American Public
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2007
Summary
At a time when public commemorations and remembrances often develop into battlefields of contested meanings, historians play an even greater role in shaping the way the American public sees and understands its past.
Distinguished historian Joyce Appleby has been at the forefront of many of the recent debates about historians and the public's history. In this engaging work, she brings together her most important reflections on the historian's craft and its importance. A Restless Past carefully examines the ways in which the dynamic events of the second half of the twentieth century have significantly altered the way historians approach the past and highlights the incredible power they hold in shaping a national identity. Through the considerable ideological shifts of the last half century, historians have responded by asking new questions about those who preceded us and created powerful identities for those who had been long ignored.
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Copyright year
2007
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-4252-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-4052-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
191
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Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
1: Without Resolution: The Jeffersonian Tension in American Nationalism No access Pages 19 - 40
2: A Different Kind of Independence: The Postwar Restructuring of the Historical Study of Early America No access Pages 41 - 70
3: The American Heritage: The Heirs and the Disinherited No access Pages 71 - 90
