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Opening Credits
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Introduction What’s the Matter with History? The Problem of Popularity in Postwar American Historical Writing
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Part I: Popular History and General Readers
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Chapter 1 Richard Hofstadter: Popular History and the Contradictions of Consensus
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Chapter 2 Daniel Boorstin: Popular History between Liberalism and Conservatism
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Part II: Popular History and Activist Readers
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Chapter 3 John Hope Franklin: The Racial Politics of Popular History
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Chapter 4 Howard Zinn: Popular History as Controversy
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Chapter 5 Gerda Lerner: The Struggle for a Popular Women’s History
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Conclusion The Legacies of Postwar Popular History
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Closing Notes
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