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- Book Title
- The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Li
- Narrative Type
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- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- Unknown
- Topic
- HISTORY
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- ISBN
- 9780231111485
- Subject Area
- Social Science, Psychology, History
- Publication Name
- Presence of the Past : Popular Uses of History in American Life
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Item Length
- 0.9 in
- Subject
- Historiography, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Customs & Traditions, United States / General
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Item Weight
- 21.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 0.7 in
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231111487
ISBN-13
9780231111485
eBay Product ID (ePID)
212597
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Presence of the Past : Popular Uses of History in American Life
Subject
Historiography, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Customs & Traditions, United States / General
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Psychology, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
21.6 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
97-047535
Reviews
Rosenzweig and Thelen have raised imaginative and important questions. They have written an important book that all historians should read and debate., "Rosenzweig and Thelen have raised imaginative and important questions. They have written an important book that all historians should read and debate." -- Richard White, Stanford University, Journal of American History, "This book has less to do with history than popular sociology-- and seems to have begun with a thesis and then proved it." -- Journal of Popular Culture, This book has less to do with history than popular sociology-- and seems to have begun with a thesis and then proved it.
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
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College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
973/.01
Table Of Content
Introduction: Scenes from a Survey The Presence of the Past: Patterns of Popular Historymaking Using the Past to Live in the Present: Relationships, Identity, Immorality 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 Afterthoughts: Everyone a Historian, by Roy Rosenzweig Afterthoughts: A Participatory Historical Culture, by David Thelen Appendix 1: How We Did the Survey Appendix 2: Tables Notes Index
Synopsis
Rosenzweig and Thelen analyze results from a unique and comprehensive survey in which they polled 1,500 Americans about their connection to the past and its continuing influence on their present as well as their hopes for the future., Some people make photo albums, collect antiques, or visit historic battlefields. Others keep diaries, plan annual family gatherings, or stitch together patchwork quilts in a tradition learned from grandparents. Each of us has ways of communing with the past, and our reasons for doing so are as varied as our memories. In a sweeping survey, Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen asked 1,500 Americans about their connection to the past and how it influences their daily lives and hopes for the future. The result is a surprisingly candid series of conversations and reflections on how the past infuses the present with meaning. Rosenzweig and Thelen found that people assemble their experiences into narratives that allow them to make sense of their personal histories, set priorities, project what might happen next, and try to shape the future. By using these narratives to mark change and create continuity, people chart the courses of their lives. A young woman from Ohio speaks of giving birth to her first child, which caused her to reflect upon her parents and the ways that their example would help her to become a good mother. An African American man from Georgia tells how he and his wife were drawn to each other by their shared experiences and lessons learned from growing up in the South in the 1950s. Others reveal how they personalize historical events, as in the case of a Massachusetts woman who traces much of her guarded attitude toward life to witnessing the assassination of John F. Kennedy on television when she was a child. While the past is omnipresent to Americans, "history" as it is usually defined in textbooks leaves many people cold. Rosenzweig and Thelen found that history as taught in school does not inspire a strong connection to the past. And they reveal how race and ethnicity affects how Americans perceive the past: while most white Americans tend to think of it as something personal, African Americans and American Indians are more likely to think in terms of broadly shared experiences--like slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, and the violation of Indian treaties." Rosenzweig and Thelen's conclusions about the ways people use their personal, family, and national stories have profound implications for anyone involved in researching or presenting history, as well as for all those who struggle to engage with the past in a meaningful way.
LC Classification Number
E179.5.R67 1998
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