Book

A Great Disorder

National Myth and the Battle for America

Richard S. Slotkin

2024

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Book Review

Dreams of Our Nation

Historians must not cede the study of how Americans understand their cacophonous nation to advocates of “patriotic” history.

by David W. Blight via New York Review of Books
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on May 22, 2026
Book Review

American Mythology

Is the United States a prisoner of its own mythology?

by Tom Zoellner via Los Angeles Review of Books on October 4, 2024
Book Review

In Need of a New Myth

Myths to explain American history and chart a path to the future once helped to bind the country together. Today, they are absorbed into the culture wars.

by Eric Foner via London Review of Books
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on June 26, 2024
Q&A

“A Theory of America”: Mythmaking with Richard Slotkin

"I was always working on a theory of America."

by Kathleen Belew, Richard S. Slotkin via Public Books on April 19, 2024

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