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Forging America : a continental history of the United States (2024)
New York : Oxford University Press
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Language: English
Pages: 2 Bände , 24 cm
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NK 4600
Keywords: History ; United States / History / Textbooks ; Histoire ; history (discipline) ; local histories ; Local histories ; Histoires locales
Abstract: "A history of the United States is a daunting undertaking for readers and writers alike. It covers well over 400 years and involves people and places from all over the globe. It also requires that we transport ourselves into worlds very different than our own and try to see those worlds through the eyes of the people we study. It requires that we acknowledge the "pastness" of the past and do what we can to reckon with it. At the same time, we must also acknowledge the "presentness of the past," that the past is always living within us, is being carried by us even if we're not aware of it. "The past is never dead," a famous novelist once wrote. "It's not even past." History is our companion and our teacher. History is a way of learning and thinking. History is something we cannot escape nor should we want to"--
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