Past Imperfect
Facts, Fictions, Fraud American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and
Woodrow Wilson, a practicing academic historian before he took to politics, defined the importance of history: A nation which does not know what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today. He, like many men of his generation, wanted to impose a version of America's founding identity: it was a land of the free and a home of the brave. But not the braves. Or the slaves. Or the disenfranchised women. So the history of Wilson's generation omitted a significant proportion of the population in favor of a perspective that was predominantly white, male and Protestant. That flaw would become a fissure and eventually a schism. A new history aros…
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- ISBN: 978-1-58648-594-8
- EAN: 9781586485948
- Produktnummer: 22913344
- Verlag: PublicAffairs
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 501 KB
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Peter Charles Hoffer is professor of history at the University of Georgia. He is a member of the American Historical Association's professional division, which audits the standards of academic historians' work. The author of many books of academic history, he was also invited to advise the AHA on plagiarism. He lives in Georgia.
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