American Identity | Vol 20 No 4 | July 2006

FROM THE EDITOR
Debating Who "We" Are
Kevin B. Byrne

FOREWORD
Still Searching for America: Conversations on National Identity
Geoffrey Scheurman

A "Canon" for American Identity
Geoffrey Scheurman

ARTICLES
Freedom: America’s Evolving and Enduring Idea
Eric Foner

Choosing Five Americans Who Got it Right, or History for Young Minds
Joy Hakim

Who Makes History? A Response to Joy Hakim's Heroes
Kurt E. Leichtle

Cultural Pluralism and American Identity: A Response to Foner’s Freedom and Hakim’s Heroes
José E. Vega

The Paradox of the Democratic Mind: Value Tensions and Argument
H. Michael Hartoonian and Richard Van Scotter

TEACHING RESOURCES
America as Metaphor: Using Argument to Teach about American Identity
Geoffrey Scheurman

Pictures that Changed Our Minds: Writing the History of the Sixties from Images
Mark Hamilton Lytle

U.S. at War: Our Reasons, Our Motives, Our Mission
Keith Reynolds

The Russo-American Primer: Shaping Cultural Identity
Marion Menzin

INTERNET RESOURCES
U.S. History and American Identity

TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY WITH DOCUMENTS FROM THE GILDER LEHRMAN COLLECTION
"We, the People of the United States": The Birth of an American Identity, September 1787
Carol Berkin

AMERICA ON THE WORLD STAGE
Globalizing Popular Culture in the "American Century" and Beyond
Penny M. Von Eschen

American IdentityVolume 20, no 4 • July 2006

American Identity
Volume 20, no 4 • July 2006