Recycling the Past: Popular Uses of American History

by Leila Zenderland (Editor)

This is a book that explores in detail the use that Americans have made of their history for commercial, cultural, and ideological purposes. It focuses on popular adaptations of historical incidents and artifacts to reveal how successive generations of Americans have been able to adapt their heritage to address the needs of their contemporaries. Further, it indicates how the past has helped to shape the attitudes of later generations toward their own society.

152 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1978