Historians rescue history in the celluloid age; York University conference looks at mission of history in 21st Century.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-7 April 2000-YORK UNIVERSITY: Historians rescue history in the celluloid age; York University conference looks at mission of history in 21st Century (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05042000 TORONTO -- Today's fascination with the past -- with history -- is everywhere: you can see it in advertising spots about beer and banks; hear it in radio debates about how best to pay tribute to our past in national museums and monuments; and feel it in the rush to the box office for tickets to revivals of Shakespeare, Elizabeth I, and the Regency-era novels of Jane Austen.

This prevailing public interest puts the lie to the predictions of post-modern scholars about "the end of history." But what exactly is the mission of history in the...