Provocative excerpts from primary and secondary sources (some with audio glosses). Read the rationale behind these sound bites for more information.
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161) It is essential to understand that films are a commodity intended to make money to understanding their relationship to politics and of politics' relationship to film. The imperative that films make a profit means seeking large audiences, and seeking large audiences requires caution about a film's subject matter and treatment. As with any other genuinely mass medium, the content and form of the films is largely dictated by economic necessities. (Phillip L. Gianos 1) [SoundBite #161]
162) Partisanship often adds zest to historical writing; for partisanship is an expression of interest and excitement and passion, and these can stir the reader as judiciousness might not. (Henry Steele Commager 55) [SoundBite #162]
163) Public memory is produced from a political discussion that involves not so much specific economic or moral problems but rather fundamental issues about the entire existence of a society: its organization, structure of power, and the very meaning of its past and present. (John Bodnar 14) [SoundBite #163]
164) Historians of the last century were striving to make their subject intellectually respectable in an age of science. . . . They thought of the true scientist as one who deals in plain, unvarnished facts, never making assumptions and never being harried by doubt and dispute over fundamentals. They thought of art as the antithesis of science, as if imagination deals only with the imaginary and can be indulged only when knowledge fails. (Herbert J. Muller 28) [SoundBite #133]
165) Pay attention to what they tell you to forget. (Muriel Rukeyser, qtd. in Loewen, Lies Across 18) [SoundBite #165]
166) Divisions may spring up, ill blood may burn, parties be formed, and interests may seem to clash; but the great bonds of the nation are linked to what is past. (Edward Everett, qtd. in Kammen, Mystic 4) [SoundBite #166]
167) Historians have become personalities on the public stage, applying makeup for the TV cameras, miking up for radio talk shows, and writing op-ed essays for the local newspapers. (Gary Nash et. al. 7) [SoundBite #167]
168) Images have no fixed meanings. (Stuart Hall) [SoundBite #168]
169) Historical memory is the key to self-identity, to seeing one's place in the stream of time, and one's connectedness with all of humankind. . . . Denied knowledge of one's roots and of one's place in the great stream of human history, the individual is deprived of the fullest sense of self and of that sense of shared community on which one's fullest personal development as well as responsible citizenship depends. (National Standards for United States History 2) [SoundBite #169]
170) School is the traditional place for acculturating children into our national life. (E. D. Hirsch, Jr. 110) [SoundBite #170]
