| Summary: | Barry Schwartz, in Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National History, argues that the legacy of Abraham Lincoln is transformed, is a product of culture, and dependent on time and situation (Schwartz, Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National History xi). Schwartz undertakes this project through a discourse analysis. He examines the archive of newspaper articles, prints, paintings, statues, sermons, and speeches. Schwartz´s theoretical intervention vis-à-vis Levine is that history is not limited to opening up the same to radical ways of thinking. Schwartz goes beyond Gary Nash, et al´s argument that history and commemoration are subject to ideological clashes. Finally, he extends Rosenzweig and Thelen argument that history and commemoration are both subject to the contingency of place.
|
|---|