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; …
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