The Cultural Approach to History

The volume written by the renowned historian, Caroline F. Ware, investigates the impact that changes in society and culture that can influence the writing of history and the way in which the past is evaluated. “As Louis Adamic has pointed out, it is to Ellis Island rather than to Plymouth Rock that a great part of the American people trace their history in America. More people have died in industrial accidents than in subduing the wilderness and fighting the Revolution. It is these people rather