[Ebook pdf] Sense of History: The Place of the Past in American Life
❀ David Glassberg ❀
| #240688 in Books | University of Massachusetts Press | 2001-04-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.77 x6.04l,1.02 | File Name: 155849281X | 288 pages |
||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| It's academic|By Carl E. Johnson Jr.|I review as a layman, not as a college professor or other history scholar. Glassberg is a public history professor at the University of Massachusetts. Although I've owned the book for years, probably since it was first published, I just got around to plowing through it. Why did I read it now? For my own amusement in retirement I'm writi||"Glassberg uses a series of loosely related essays on small, sometimes seemingly insignificant, topics as a way of meditating on a large, complex, and important matter: the differences and interrelationships between the 'sense of history' among academic histo
As Americans enter the new century, their interest in the past has never been greater. In record numbers they visit museums and historic sites, attend commemorative ceremonies and festivals, watch historically based films, and reconstruct family genealogies. The question is, Why? What are Americans looking for when they engage with the past? And how is it different from what scholars call "history"? In this book, David Glassberg surveys the shifting boundaries between t...
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