Title
Searching the Shadows: Thoughts on the West’s Political History An Extended Field Note
Document Type
Article
Department or Administrative Unit
History
Publication Date
2-15-2022
Abstract
This article compares two works, Greg Grandin’s The End of Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America (2019) and Heather Cox Richardson’s How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America (2020), as a microcosm of the greater field of American political history. In particular, the author focuses on ideologies and platforms that evolved in the American West--particularly Populism and progressivism--that have had an outsized effect on today's political landscape.
Recommended Citation
Herman, Daniel J. "Searching the Shadows: Thoughts on the West’s Political History An Extended Field Note." Western Historical Quarterly, 53(2), 117-143. https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/whac001
Journal
Western Historical Quarterly
Rights
© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Western History Association. All rights reserved.
Comments
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