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Remembering America - How We Have Told Our Past (Hardcover)
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Remembering America - How We Have Told Our Past (Hardcover)
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American history is ubiquitous, underscoring everything from food
to travel to architecture and design. It is also emotionally
charged, frequently crossing paths with political and legal issues.
In Remembering America, Lawrence R. Samuel examines the place that
American history has occupied within education and popular culture
and how it has continually shaped and reflected our cultural values
and national identity. The story of American history, Samuel
explains, is not a straight line but rather one filled with twists
and turns and ups and downs, its narrative path as winding as that
of the United States as a whole. Organized around six distinct eras
of American history ranging from the 1920s to the present, Samuel
shows that our understanding of American history has often
generated struggle and contention as ideologically opposed groups
battled over ownership of the past. As women and minorities gained
greater power and a louder voice in the national conversation, our
perspectives on American history became significantly more
multicultural, bringing race, gender, and class issues to the
forefront. These new interpretations of our history helped to
reshape our identity on both a national and an individual level.
Samuel argues that the fight for ownership of our past, combined
with how those owners have imparted history to our youth, crucially
affects who we are. Our interpretation and expression of our
country's past reflects how that self-identity has changed over the
last one hundred years and created a strong sense of our collective
history-one of the few things Americans all have in common.
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