Volume 37, Number 8 · May 17, 1990
The Rebel
By David Brion Davis
The Future of the Past
by C. Vann Woodward
Oxford University Press, 370 pp., $24.95
Historians sometimes forget that history is continually being made and experienced before it is studied, interpreted, and read. The latter activities have their own history, of course, which may impinge in unexpected ways on public events. It is difficult to predict when new pasts will erupt through the surface of established understandings and change the landscape of the future.
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