The opening of the American mind : canons, culture, and history /
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Boston :
Beacon Press,
c1996
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. A historian in wonderland. Through the looking glass. Pt. 2. Learning and legitimacy. The discipline and furniture of the mind: the clash over the classical curriculum
- Looking eastward: the career of western civ
- English and American: a tale of two literatures
- Canons and culture. Pt. 3. The search for American identity. From the melting pot to the pluralist vision
- The troublesome presence
- The ethnic dynamic
- Explanations
- Multiculturalism: historians, univerisities, and the emerging nation