![]() ![]() One group hopes to see America become great again the other claims that such golden age thinking is a fantasy of the privileged. ![]() ![]() No, insist most conservatives, it’s a narrative of individuals striving for liberty, who got stymied, at times, by meddlesome progressives and riotous radicals. It’s the story of a white man’s empire, many scholars on the left contend, against which dissenters of all races and genders have struggled to create a truly democratic society. And the argument a historian makes about America’s long, turbulent, and demographically complex past-from the arrival of the first European settlers in the sixteenth century to the triumph of Donald Trump-depends upon the story she chooses to tell. “To write history is to make an argument by telling a story,” Jill Lepore once explained. ![]()
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