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American Prospect, The, June, 2001 by NELSON, MICHAEL
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In the academic world, historians now view the past mostly through the lenses of race, class, and gender. Grants are won (and tenure gained) by those who write "history from below"--that is, the history of ordinary people--as well as the history of the marginalized "Other." You can get an idea of what constitutes voguish academic history from titles like Paternalism in a Southern City: Race, Religion, and Gender in Augusta, Georgia, and Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity.
Intent on driving out the older understanding of history as the ...
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