Analysis of usable past historiography reveals how identity politics distort historical narratives, indicating a conservative perspective on campus conflicts.
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd’s Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America, writes historian Edward S. Shapiro, is a prime example of “usable past” historiography, in which identity politics provides the crooked lens through which the past is distorted for progressive purposes.
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