Interpretations of the Past
Historian Michael D. Hattem discusses historical memory, reckoning with the creation of “American history”, and his recent book
That put this question in my head: how, and when, did these British colonists, now Americans, stop thinking that the British past was their history? And how did they come to replace it with what we now call “American history”? That question then became the project’s overarching framework: reckoning with ...
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