Vital Past Writings on the Uses of History

The importance of history and its relevance to the present have seldom gone unquestioned in modern times. This is particularly true in the United States, born as the quintessentially modern nation, where the image of a vast open frontier and the unofficial state creed of limitless progress have diminished the importance of the past, and where the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson proclaimed that nature and personal experience made tradition irrelevant for the self-reliant American.Vaughn, Stephen is the author of 'Vital Past Writings on the Uses of History', published 1985 under ISBN 9780820307541 and ISBN 0820307548.