The presence of the past : popular uses of history in American life /
Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen.
- x, 291 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-284) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Scenes from a Survey -- The Presence of the Past: Patterns of Popular Historymaking -- Using the Past to Live in the Present: Relationships, Identity, Immortality -- Using the Past to Shape the Future: Building Narratives, Taking Responsibility -- "Experience Is the Best Teacher": Participation, Mediation, Authority, Trust -- Beyond the Intimate Past: Americans and Their Collective Pasts -- History in Black and Red: African Americans and American Indians and Their Collective Pasts -- Everyone a Historian -- A Participatory Historical Culture -- How We Did the Survey -- App. 2: Tables -- Notes -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. App. 1.
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Memory--Social aspects--United States National characteristics, American Interviews--United States
United States--History--Philosophy United States--Social life and customs