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"A Restless Past: History and the American Public" by Joyce Oldhanl Appleby

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"A Restless Past: History and the American Public" by Joyce Oldhanl Appleby

"A Restless Past: History and the American Public" by Joyce Oldhanl Appleby
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Book Club (BCE/BOMC) | 2005 | ISBN: 0742542521 9780742542525 9780742542532 | 200 pages | PDF | 5 MB

This book 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.

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. 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.

Contents
Introduction
1 Without Resolution: The Jeffersonian Tension in American Nationalism
2 A Different Kind of Independence: The Postwar Restructuring of the Historical Study of Early America
3 The American Heritage: The Heirs and the Disinherited
4 Recovering Americas Historic Diversity: Beyond Exceptionalism
5 The Enlightenment Project in a Postmodernist Age
6 One Good Turn Deserves Another: Moving beyond the Linguistic: A Response to David Harlan
7 The Power of History
8 Presidents, Congress, and Courts: Partisan Passions in Motion
9 The Vexed Story of Capitalism Told by
American Historians
Index
About the Author
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