Myth America: A Historical Anthology
- ISBN-10
- 1933385138
- ISBN-13
- 9781933385136
- Series
- Myth America
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-07-21
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Authors
- Patrick Gerster, Nicholas J. Cords
Description
The idea for Myth America grew out of our won teaching experiences.In continuously dealing with students who for the most part werebeginning their collegiate study of American history, we found thata thematic approach to the nation's past was stimulating. The themeof myth as threads within the diverse tapestry of culturalexperience proved to be especially engaging. The selected historical myths discussed and analyzed in MythAmerica can best be understood as a series of false beliefs aboutAmerica's past. They are false beliefs, however, that have beenaccepted as true and acted upon as real, and in that acting theyhave acquired truth. Therefore, myths remain both true and falsesimultaneously. In fact, the making of myths is a process by whicha culture structures its world and perpetuates its grandestdreams. While offering a strong foundation of classic historical writingand interpretation, Myth America includes numerous fresh selectionson womens' history, southerners and American regionalism, popularculture, African American stereotyping, urban America,controversial leaders such as Booker T. Washington, progressivismin relation to both conservation and ethnicity, the nature andlegacy of the Great War, World War II, and Vietnam, PresidentKennedy and Reagan, mythic dynamics of the Cold War,Asian-Americans, and multiculturalism. We have been guided in ourfinal selections by a desire to offer articles that voice ourmythic theme in a scholarly and provocative way: articles thatoffer students readability and current interest without sacrificingthe demands of thorough historical scholarship. We occasionallyrefer to historiography, for historians function as the culture'spreeminent storytellers and so maintain their seeminglycontradictory roles of mythmakers and myth-debunkers.
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