Might Americans Agree on What Happened in the Past?

It Is probably essential to overcoming the hyper-partisan divide

Americans are clearly divided on their perceptions of the past. They seem to have lost interest in mainstream history, the very idea of a shared past and a shared identity.

Far less objective, less critical, less informed accounts of the American past now dominate. From a far-right perspective, America is only for people of a common European ancestry; …