Diverse Cultural Experiences and Historical Narratives Quiz
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According to the author's note, what was the intention behind the September Perspectives on History column?

  • To foreclose a conversation for many members
  • To harm colleagues, the discipline, and the Association
  • To generate anger and dismay among colleagues and members
  • To open a conversation on how we 'do' history in a politically charged environment (correct)
  • What does the author take responsibility for in the author's note?

  • Conveying what was intended
  • Generating anger and dismay among colleagues and members
  • Causing harm to colleagues, the discipline, and the Association (correct)
  • Foreclosing a conversation for many members
  • What does the author apologize for in the author's note?

  • Provoking the AHA membership
  • Leaving the impression that questions posed from absence, grief, memory, and resilience matter less than those posed from positions of power
  • Alienating Black colleagues and friends (correct)
  • Drawing attention to methodological flaws in teleological presentism
  • What does presentism threaten to do to historians?

    <p>Put them out of business</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What happened to the number of PhDs awarded to students working on pre-1800 topics from 2003 to 2013?

    <p>Decreased by 4 percent</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the consequence of the discipline's focus on the 20th and 21st centuries?

    <p>Historical analyses collapse into familiar terms of contemporary debates</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main concern raised by the author regarding the teaching of American history through The 1619 Project?

    <p>It lacks historical legitimacy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Justice Stephen Breyer argues that history should not be the primary measure for adjudicating contemporary legal issues because

    <p>Historians engage in research methods incompatible with solving modern-day legal, political, or economic questions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the consequence of shaping history to justify contemporary political positions?

    <p>The discipline of history is undermined and its integrity is threatened.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How should historians interpret elements of the past?

    <p>Within the worlds of our historical actors.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Where did the majority of Africans who passed through Elmina Castle go?

    <p>Brazil and the Caribbean</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main concern of the historian in the text?

    <p>The narrow politics and historical erasures in narratives about African American history</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the author's criticism of the US Supreme Court decisions mentioned in the text?

    <p>They cherry-pick historical data to fit their political biases</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the text suggest about the interpretation of history in recent political contexts?

    <p>It is shaped by current political positions</p> Signup and view all the answers

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