Telling the Truth about History"A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a discipline."—Booklist |
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... democratic education. It does so by focusing on the project of history, specifically by asking what people can know about the past that will help them elucidate the present. Our central argument is that skepticism and relativism about ...
... democratic education. It does so by focusing on the project of history, specifically by asking what people can know about the past that will help them elucidate the present. Our central argument is that skepticism and relativism about ...
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... democratic society. To achieve this aim, it is essential to confront the perennial controversies over national history, scientific integrity, and the possibility of truth and objectivity. A host of questions present themselves. Do ...
... democratic society. To achieve this aim, it is essential to confront the perennial controversies over national history, scientific integrity, and the possibility of truth and objectivity. A host of questions present themselves. Do ...
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... democracy? The controversies could surprise many adults who remember their history courses, if they remember them at all, as dreary catalogs of names, dates, and events rather than as hothouses of debate about ethnic and national ...
... democracy? The controversies could surprise many adults who remember their history courses, if they remember them at all, as dreary catalogs of names, dates, and events rather than as hothouses of debate about ethnic and national ...
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... democracy, objective knowledge, and modernity itself no longer seemed to march in step towards the enrichment of humankind. Skepticism and relativism are two-edged swords. They can be wielded to question the powers that be to promote a ...
... democracy, objective knowledge, and modernity itself no longer seemed to march in step towards the enrichment of humankind. Skepticism and relativism are two-edged swords. They can be wielded to question the powers that be to promote a ...
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... democratic framework. Despite these ambitions, the book nevertheless argues that what historians do best is to make connections with the past in order to illuminate the problems of the present and the potential of the future. In the ...
... democratic framework. Despite these ambitions, the book nevertheless argues that what historians do best is to make connections with the past in order to illuminate the problems of the present and the potential of the future. In the ...
Contents
History Makes a Nation | |
Competing Histories of America | |
Discovering the Clay Feet of Science | |
Postmodernism and the Crisis of Modernity | |
Truth and Objectivity | |
The Future of History | |
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Telling the Truth about History Joyce Oldham Appleby,Lynn Hunt,Lynn Avery Hunt,Margaret C. Jacob Limited preview - 1994 |
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