The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History by Gordon S. Wood

The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History

Gordon S. Wood

323 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction essays history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Reflections on the historian's craft and its place in American culture, from a master craftsman History is to society what memory is to the individual: without it, we don't know who we are, and we can't make wise decisions about where we should b...

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