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Memory and American History
Abstract
Journal Article Memory and American History Get access David Thelen David Thelen professor of history at Indiana University and editor of the Journal of American History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Pages 1117–1129, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908632 Published: 01 March 1989
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In the citing paper
“In a study of memory the important question is not how accurately a recollection fitted some piece of a past reality, but why historical actors constructed their memories in a particular way at a particular time.”
From Nostalgia: sanctuary of meaning (2006) · cites this paper as Thelen (1989)
Citations
Cited by
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Metadata
- Authors
- Thelen, D.
- Venue
- The Journal of American History
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1989-03
- Volume
- 75
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1117
- ISSN
- 0021-8723
- Cited by
- 114
- References
- 0
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- Thelen, D. (1989). Memory and American History. The Journal of American History. https://doi.org/10.2307/1908632
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Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
