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Make American History Dramatic Again

Make American History Dramatic Again
The Battle of Antietam, the Civil War's deadliest one-day fight, by Thure de Thulstrup. Library of Congress. Public Domain
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Public debates have recently focused on school history standards—what the Advanced Placement program should teach in its African American Studies course and what the state of Florida should say about the effects of slavery. These are important questions. But I’m concerned about a longer-term problem: the danger of making American history and civics dull.

Jonathan Den Hartog
Jonathan Den Hartog
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Dr. Jonathan Den Hartog is professor of history and chair of the History Department at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama and a Jack Miller Center faculty partner. He is the author of “Patriotism and Piety: Federalist Politics and Religious Struggle in the New American Nation.”
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