Popularizing the Past
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Popularizing the Past
Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America
University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226826998
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2023 July 7
$25.00 USD
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¿Qué le pasa a la historia? Durante décadas, los críticos de la disciplina han argumentado que la profesión histórica está dominada por académicos que no pueden, o tal vez ni siquiera quieren, escribir para el público. En Popularizing the Past, Nick Witham desafía esta interpretación al contar las historias de cinco historiadores: Richard Hofstadter, Daniel Boorstin, John Hope Franklin, Howard Zinn y Gerda Lerner, quienes, en las décadas posteriores a la Segunda Guerra Mundial, publicaron libros ampliamente leídos sobre historia nacional.
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O que acontece com a história? Durante décadas, os críticos da disciplina argumentaram que a profissão de história é dominada por estudiosos que não podem, ou talvez até queiram, escrever para o público. Em Popularizing the Past, Nick Witham desafia essa interpretação contando as histórias de cinco historiadores: Richard Hofstadter, Daniel Boorstin, John Hope Franklin, Howard Zinn e Gerda Lerner, que, nas décadas após a Segunda Guerra Mundial, publicaram livros amplamente lidos. sobre a história nacional.
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Popularizing the Past tells the stories of five postwar historians who changed the way ordinary Americans thought about their nation’s history.
What’s the matter with history? For decades, critics of the discipline have argued that the historical profession is dominated by scholars unable, or perhaps even unwilling, to write for the public. In Popularizing the Past, Nick Witham challenges this interpretation by telling the stories of five historians—Richard Hofstadter, Daniel Boorstin, John Hope Franklin, Howard Zinn, and Gerda Lerner—who, in the decades after World War II, published widely read books of national history.
Witham compellingly argues that we should understand historians’ efforts to engage with the reading public as a vital part of their postwar identity and mission. He shows how the lives and writings of these five authors were fundamentally shaped by their desire to write histories that captivated both scholars and the elusive general reader. He also reveals how these authors’ efforts could not have succeeded without a publishing industry and a reading public hungry to engage with the cutting-edge ideas then emerging from American universities. As Witham’s book makes clear, before we can properly understand the heated controversies about American history so prominent in today’s political culture, we must first understand the postwar effort to popularize the past.
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