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- Title: Histories Taking Root: The Contexts and Patterns of Educational Historiography During the Twentieth Century (Chapter 10) (Report)
- Author : American Education History Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 236 KB
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In one of Eric Foner's (2002) recent histories, the book title asks a provocative question: "who owns history?" For critical historians like Foner, the answer has traditionally been well-to-do white men since they, until relatively recently, have been the ones who authored and, therefore, determined the content of most histories of the United States. But, an equally intriguing question is "what shapes history," a question that forces educational historians to ponder their scholarly literature. This article argues that the larger context of American life--the cultural, social, and intellectual currents--is what shapes the professional writing of history in the United States. The essay examines the contexts that brought forth the progressive scholarship early in the century, the consensus and psychoanalytic histories of mid-century, the revisionist works of the 1960s and 1970s, and the synthetic histories of recent decades. The article concludes by surveying other recent trends--such as the rise of postmodernism, global history, and policy-oriented scholarship--and their impact on the history of education.