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COPYRIGHT 1995 Journal of Social HistoryThe Culture Wars came to a head in 1995 as the newly empowered Republicans in Congress set out to defund or privatize the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. This paper will attempt to map the political, economic, social and cultural terrain of the dispute as a means of exploring one of the central political issues of the late 20th century, the "Culture Wars."(1) There are many players to track; while their identities, ideologies and positions have not changed much since 1980, their relative strength has shifted. Personalities and issues of the moment change, but the basic conflict was about how a nation should go about officially proclaiming its core values. Since historians have been central participants in the debate, and have a direct financial interest in its outcome, it is especially important to understand where the characters stand, and what were their motivations and their interactions.