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    Cambridge University Press (CUP) ; 2023
    In:  Modern Intellectual History Vol. 20, No. 2 ( 2023-06), p. 651-662
    In: Modern Intellectual History, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 20, No. 2 ( 2023-06), p. 651-662
    Abstract: In recent years, historians have been in increased demand to use their expertise to help understand contemporary events. The forces that are driving news outlets and podcasts to enlist historians for their perspectives on the present are also drawing students into our college classes. This article explores how courses on contemporary US history can use students' desire for historical perspectives on their long now to teach them more broadly about the historian's craft. Working with and against the conceit of the “now,” courses on contemporary US history can provide students a novel way to learn historical theories and methods, identify and work with primary sources, interrogate periodization, and challenge different modes of ahistoricism. Properly conceived and executed, histories of the present offer a challenge to presentism by denaturalizing the familiar.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 1479-2443 , 1479-2451
    Language: English
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
    Publication Date: 2023
    detail.hit.zdb_id: 2168932-5
    SSG: 8
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