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History, Politics, and the American Past - Essays on Methodology (Paperback)
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History, Politics, and the American Past - Essays on Methodology (Paperback)
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History, Politics, and the American Past assesses the connection
between historiography and politics in America on the basis of an
important methodological distinction between the past and the
history written about it. While necessarily interpreting the past,
professional historians and those with a general interest alike
remain tempted, consciously or not, to make American history serve
their own political and moral views. There is a tendency to impose
our present values on the past and sometimes go so far as to
believe the past can be changed by present action. In this volume,
Ari Helo analyzes examples of this, including metahistorical
narratives, presidential speeches, and the occasionally vague
rhetoric of the Confederate statue campaigns, before diagnosing the
source of doing so and suggesting how we might avoid it. Taking
America as its example, the book illuminates essential
methodological issues related to history writing while deciphering
the complicated relationship of history and politics. The book will
be of interest to scholars and students of American history,
historiography, American studies, and cultural studies, providing a
vivid account of how to make sense of American history.
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