Remapping American culture: a new U.S. history traces today's regionalism to colonial days.

U.S. News & World Report | December 4, 1989| | Copyright

Remapping American culture

For nearly a century, historians have searched for the wellspring of American politics and culture. Herbert Baxter Adams found it in the Teutonic forests, where Saxon warriors had gathered in an early version of the New England town meeting. Frederick Jackson Turner looked westward to the American frontier, while Richard Hofstadter and Daniel Boorstin looked to the economic abundance and inventiveness that produced a broad-based middle class. Now, historian David Hackett Fischer is bidding to join their ranks with a provocative new theory ...

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