Union - The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood
epub | 1.39 MB | English | Author :Colin Woodard | B0818XHV9M | 2020 | Penguin Publishing Group

Book Description :

The author of American Nations returns to the historical study of a fractured America by examining how a myth of national unity was created and fought over in the nineteenth century-a myth that continues to affect us today
Union tells the story of how the myth of our national origins, identity, and purpose was intentionally created in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A small group of individuals-historians, political leaders, and novelists-fashioned a history that attempted to erase the fundamental differences and profound tensions between the nation's regional cultures, the motive for the Confederacy's secession (protecting a slave system), and even the reasons that drove the colonies to secede from Britain. These men were creating the idea of an American nation instead of a union of disparate states, and a specific, ethnically defined "American people" instead of just a republican citizenry.
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