Conservatism: A State of the Field

• Published in: The Journal of American history (Bloomington, Ind.) Vol. 98; no. 3; pp. 723 - 743
• Main Author: Phillips-Fein, Kim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Organization of American Historians 01.12.2011; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: 20th century; Activists; American history; Bookstores; Christianity; Civil rights; Conservatism; Conservatism: A Round Table; Feminism; Historians; History of ideas; Liberalism; Military history; New Deal; Political activism; Political history; Political movements; Political parties; Politics; Reagan, Ronald Wilson; Right wing politics; Scholars; Social activism; United States history; New York

In the early 1990s it was still possible to see the story of the twentieth century in terms of the triumph and expansion of liberalism, from the New Deal through the civil rights movement, feminism, the gay rights movement, and environmentalism. [...] what we need now is the distance to think anew a...