The decline of American studies

From the 1940s through the 1960s, the most innovative movement in the American and international academic world was American studies. One of the last surviving giants of that movement, Daniel Aaron, author of Writers on the Left: Episodes in American Literary Communism and founder of the Library of...

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Published inThe Chronicle of Higher Education Vol. 62; no. 38; p. B4
Main Author Pells, Richard
Format Journal Article Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc 10.06.2016
Chronicle of Higher Education
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Aaron, Daniel
American studies
Anti Intellectualism
Aspiration
Course Descriptions
Deaths
English Departments
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History
Music
Resistance (Psychology)
Social History
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United States History
War
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United States > US
Eastern Europe
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Summary:From the 1940s through the 1960s, the most innovative movement in the American and international academic world was American studies. One of the last surviving giants of that movement, Daniel Aaron, author of Writers on the Left: Episodes in American Literary Communism and founder of the Library of America series dedicated to preserving and publicizing the work of America's major writers, died on April 30 at the age of 103. Aaron was part of an academic and intellectual generation in the United States -- including Perry Miller, F.O. Matthiessen, Alfred Kazin, Henry Nash Smith, Richard Hofstadter, Daniel Boorstin, Louis Hartz, John William Ward, Leo Marx, and Christopher Lasch -- that revolutionized our perspectives on American culture. Their books reinterpreted the American past not only for professors and students but also for general readers.
ISSN:0009-5982
1931-1362