![]() ![]() ![]() The task was to recover the histories that had been lost or hidden and write them down as quickly as possible before they disappeared again. ) That was the "new" version of American history that was emerging in the late 60's and into the 70's when I was in graduate school and just beginning my career as a teacher. ![]() Sometime in the late 60's a competing version appeared - so-called ethnic histories, the stories of this or that "unmeltable" population (African Americans, Native Americans, women, Asian Americans. That is the history I was taught in the 50's and early 60's as I was growing up and coming of age. In the beginning, there was only one version of American history - the one that began with the "discovery" of North America by Europeans, particularly the English, who created a beachhead of "civilization" on the East coast and then conquered a series of "frontiers" moving westward until they "won" and became God's gift to humanity, creating a country which is like a city built on a hill shedding light and progress everywhere else on earth. ![]()
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