THE New AMERICAN HISTORY

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THE NewAMERICANHISTORY
EDITED FOR THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION BY
ERIC FONER
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Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition
Studying Teaching of History Debate Columbian
Exchange Air Space Museum National
Standards Different Types of History
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Introduction to the First Edition
Shattering of Consensus Vision Ordinary
Americans Quantification Cultural
Analysis Introduction to Current Thinking on Key
Issues Periods Understanding the Broad American
Experience New Methods
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A Modern Synthesis?
Void Unfilled Diversity of New Histories Fragmente
d Historical Scholarship Impede the creation of a
Coherent Vision of National Experience Attempt to
Integrate into a Coherent Whole Integrating a
Variety of Social, Economic, Political
Developments
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Issues Themes
Definitions of Liberty Equality Causes of
Social Change Exercise of Political Power On
going mode of Collective Self-Discovery about the
Nature of American Society