But in the 1970s, studying the nation fell out of favor in the American historical profession. Most historians started looking at either smaller or bigger things, investigating the experiences and cultures of social groups or taking the broad vantage promised by global history. This turn produced excellent scholarship. But meanwhile, who was doing the work of providing a legible past and a plausible future—a nation—to the people who lived in the United States?An article worth your time
Sunday, March 17, 2019
CFR Journal Article Worries American Historians Aren't Studying American History
Foreign Affairs reports: