The State of U.S. History

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Historians are very much aware of the variety of national and international trends that have shaped historical inquiry in recent decades. Americanists, in particular, have been conscious of the growing importance of gender issues, the 'turn' to questions of language and meaning, the increasing significance of cultural matters, and a new emphasis on regional history. The 1990s, moreover, saw a major movement to internationalize approaches to American history by emphasizing comparisons with other countries and cultures. By the end of the twentieth century it was by no means clear whether there was any distinctive 'American' history or, if it did exist, what its main contours were.

This book brings together a distinguished international group of scholars in an effort to answer this key question through a sustained interrogation of the periods, themes, fields, problems and perspectives in historical writing on the United States. How have the intricate issues surrounding gender, race, slavery and civil rights been resolved and interpreted in recent American history? How have historians dealt with the complexities of events such as the American Revolution, the Civil War, Reconstruction and the New Deal in developing their historical narratives? In what ways have technological developments in industry, print and film influenced the questions historians ask?

The State of U.S. History offers an exciting introduction to the debates surrounding the major trends in American historical debates and the crucial events and influences that have helped define the American experience.

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Acknowledgements	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Notes	p. 18
Themes and Periods	p. 22
Writing the History of the American Revolution	p. 23
Notes	p. 38
Reshaping Society: American Social History from Revolution to Reconstruction	p. 45
Notes	p. 64
Rediscovering Jacksonian America	p. 69
Notes	p. 85
The Evangelical Surge and the Significance of Religion in the Early United States, 1783-1865	p. 93
Notes	p. 106
The New Deal in American Scholarship	p. 115
Notes	p. 126
Beyond the "age of Mccarthy": Anticommunism and the Historians	p. 131
Notes	p. 147
Segregation and Civil Rights: African American Freedom Strategies in the Twentieth Century	p. 155
Notes	p. 169
Fields	p. 178
Industrial History: the State of the Art	p. 179
Notes	p. 191
Intellectual History, Democracy, and the Culture of Irony	p. 199
Notes	p. 217
Women's History and Gender	p. 223
Notes	p. 237
Print and the Public Sphere in Early America	p. 245
Notes	p. 260
The Rise of Film History	p. 265
Acknowledgements	p. 276
Notes	p. 277
Regional History	p. 284
The American West: from Exceptionalism to Internationalism	p. 285
Notes	p. 303
Orpheus Turning: the Present State of Southern History	p. 307
Notes	p. 319
Perspectives and Problems	p. 326
Class and the Construction of "race": White Racism in the American South	p. 327
Notes	p. 342
Imagining Indians: Differing Perspectives on Native American History	p. 347
Notes	p. 360
Class in American History: Issues and a Case Study John Ashworth	p. 367
Notes	p. 381
Conflict by Consent: Popular Commitment, Community Participation, and the War for the Union	p. 387
Notes	p. 401
By Way of Dubois: the Question of Black Initiative in the Civil War and Reconstruction	p. 407
Notes	p. 421
Index	p. 425
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