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All nations seek a genealogy and a mythology. Kammen shows how the United States has tried to write its history and explore its past to validate its present. This is a history of history, and of America's "character".
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This page is a summary of: Michael Kammen's Commemoration of the Americanist Tradition, Journal of American Studies, August 1993, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0021875800031571.
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