A restless past
Subtitle: history and the American public
By: Joyce  Appleby.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Historiography -- Social aspects -- United States; Historiography -- Political aspects -- United States; United States -- Historiography; United States -- History -- Philosophy
Description: "A Restless Past carefully examines the ways in which the dynamic events of the second half of the twentieth century have significantly altered how 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 creating powerful identities for those who had been long ignored."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Without resolution : the Jeffersonian tension in American nationalism; title: A different kind of independence : the postwar restructuring of the historical study of early America; title: The American heritage : the heirs and the disinherited; title: Recovering America's historic diversity : beyond exceptionalism; title: The enlightenment project in a postmodernist age; title: One good turn deserves another : moving beyond the linguistic : a response to David Harlan; title: The power of history; title: Presidents, Congress, and courts : partisan passions in motion; title: The vexed story of capitalism told by American historians.