Historian’s Decline

Historian’s Decline

“Tempora mutant,” remarked the Roman analysts of social change, to which we can add not only our Amen but also our uncomfortable awareness of the rapidity of change in analyses of change. In the 1950s, Americanists of various disciplines seemed anxious to isolate
the “distinctively American” in our national experiences and to emphasize continuities of ideas and institutions.

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