In the past lane : historical perspectives on American culture / Michael Kammen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kammen, Michael, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--United States--Historiography.

Popular culture.

Memory--Social aspects--United States--History.

Memory.

United States--Social life and customs--Historiography.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text brings together a decade of writing from cultural historian, Michael Kammen. Topics include: the role of the historian; the relationship between culture and the State; uses of tradition in American commercial culture; and memory distortion in American history.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; I: THE PERSONAL AND THE PROFESSIONAL; 1. Personal Identity and the Historian's Vocation; II: PERCEPTIONS OF CULTURE AND PUBLIC LIFE; 2. Culture and the State in America; 3. Temples of Justice: The Iconography of Judgment and American Culture; 4. ""Our Idealism Is Practical"": Emerging Uses of Tradition in American Commercial Culture, 1889-1936; 5. The Enduring Challenges and Changing Role of Cultural Institutions; III: CHANGING PERCEPTIONS OF THE PAST; 6. Myth, Memory, and Amnesia in American Historical Art; 7. The Problem of American Exceptionalism: A Reconsideration

8. Some Patterns and Meanings of Memory Distortion in American History9. History Is Our Heritage: The Past in Contemporary American Culture; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Credits

Notes:

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1997.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771389-0

1-280-83317-3

9786610833177

0-19-802713-3

OCLC:

476007940