The American past politicized: Uses and misuses of history

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 617, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 42-57

  Kammen, Michael ^a,b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology

^b AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

History standards (1992 1995); Law office history; Lessons of the past; Patriotic history; Presidential history; Revisionism; Sanitized history

Indexed keywords

EID: 42149131575     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716207310816     Document Type: Article

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