{"title":"Historiography.","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781586482442","title":"Past Imperfect Facts, Fictions, and Fraud in the Writing of American History - Hoffer, Peter Charles","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003ePast Imperfect Facts, Fictions, and Fraud in the Writing of American History\u003c\/u\u003e by Hoffer, Peter Charles\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover with Dust Jacket\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by PublicAffairs, 2004\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWoodrow Wilson, a practicing academic historian before he took to politics, defined the importance of history: \"A nation which does not know what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today.\" He, like many men of his generation, wanted to impose a version of America's founding identity: it was a land of the free and a home of the brave. But not the braves. Or the slaves. Or the disenfranchised women. So the history of Wilson's generation omitted a significant proportion of the population in favor of a perspective that was predominantly white, male and Protestant.  That flaw would become a fissure and eventually a schism. A new history arose which, written in part by radicals and liberals, had little use for the noble and the heroic, and that rankled many who wanted a celebratory rather than a critical history. To this combustible mixture of elements was added the flame of public debate. History in the 1990s was a minefield of competing passions, political views and prejudices. It was dangerous ground, and, at the end of the decade, four of the nation's most respected and popular historians were almost destroyed by it: Michael Bellesiles, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Stephen Ambrose and Joseph Ellis.  This is their story, set against the wider narrative of the writing of America's history. It may be, as Flaubert put it, that \"Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times.\" To which he could have added: falsify, plagiarize and politicize, because that's the other story of America's history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eProduct image is for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product offered for sale.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PublicAffairs, 2004","offers":[{"title":"Past Imperfect Facts, Fictions, and Fraud in the Writing of American History \/ Good","offer_id":53250718368036,"sku":"9781586482442GD","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/9951\/4148\/files\/public_b6130a95-839a-444b-bb1f-45e35808fb1a.jpg?v=1779988239"},{"product_id":"9781595580825","title":"History Lessons How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History - Lindaman, Dana ; Kyle Ward","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eHistory Lessons How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History\u003c\/u\u003e by Lindaman, Dana ; Kyle Ward\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by The New Press, 2006\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The American invaders...accompanied by their puppets, finally waged the war...The bastards who crossed the 38th parallel at dawn were stoking the flames of war, jumping around like mad men, yearning to invade the North.\" --North Korean textbook on the Korean WarHistory Lessons offers a lighthearted and fascinating challenge to the biases we bring to our understanding of American history. The subject of widespread attention when it was first published in 2004--including a full front-page review in the Washington Post Book World and features on NPR's Talk of the Nation and the History Channel--this book gives us a glimpse into classrooms across the globe, where opinions about the United States are first formed.Heralded as \"timely and important\" (History News Network) and \"shocking and fascinating\" (New York Times), History Lessons includes selections from Russia, France, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Canada, and others, covering such events as the American Revolution, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Iran hostage crisis, and the Korean War, providing an alternative history of the United States from the Viking explorers to the post-Cold War era.By juxtaposing starkly contrasting versions of the historical events we take for granted, History Lessons affords us a sometimes hilarious, often sobering look at what the world learns about America's past.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eProduct image is for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product offered for sale.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Press, 2006","offers":[{"title":"History Lessons How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History \/ Very Good","offer_id":54064782541092,"sku":"9781595580825VG","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/9951\/4148\/files\/2171013482756.jpg?v=1779987804"}],"url":"https:\/\/brookingsbooks.com\/collections\/historiography.oembed","provider":"Brookings Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}