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Selected current articles and books at the AC
This is a regularly updated selection of current articles and books that are available for study at the AC free of charge.
Articles
The National Interest – Robert Zoelick on Being the World´s Banker
Number 95, May/June 2008
American Journalism Review – Maybe It Is Time to Panic
(Why News Organizations Have to Act Much More Boldly If They Are to Survive)
By Carl Sessions Stepp
April/May 2008
We are also pleased to announce that photography journal Aperture and music magazine Billboard are among our new subscriptions.
Books
Gordon S. Wood – The Purpose of the Past
The Penguin Press, New York, 2008
History is to society what memory is to the individual: without it, we don't know who we are, and we can't make wise decisions about where we should be going. But while the nature of memory is a constant, the nature of history has changed radically over the past forty years, for good but also for ill. In The Purpose of the Past, Pulitzer Prize winning historian Gordon S. Wood examines the sea change in the field through considerations of some of its most important historians and their works. His book serves as both a history of American history-neither wholly a celebration nor a critique-and an argument for its ongoing necessity.
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