Hanging Together : Unity and Diversity in

How has America, with its many ethnic, class, and ideological divisions, allowed divergent groups to "hang together" as Americans? In this book, a distinguished historian explores the ways in which Americans have conceived of a national identity and demonstrates that an appreciation of America's kaleidoscopic diversity can be reconciled with an affirmation of its common national culture.

John Higham is John Martin Vincent Professor Emeritus of History at the Johns Hopkins University.

Preface

ix

Introduction

xiii

I Tracing Unities

Hanging Together: Divergent Unities in American History

3

(20)

America in Person: The Evolution of National Symbols

23

(34)

Rediscovering the Pragmatic American

57

(10)

Specialization in a Democracy

67

(18)

II Integrating Diversity

Integrating America: The Problem of Assimilation at the Turn of the Century

85

(16)

Immigration and American Mythology

101

(10)

Pluralistic Integration as an American Model

111

(24)

Three Postwar Reconstructions

135

(14)

III Turning Points

From Boundlessness to Consolidation: The Transformation of American Culture, 1848-1860

149

(18)

America's Utopian Prophets

167

(6)

The Reorientation of American Culture in the 1890s

173

(26)

The Long Road to the New Deal

199

(22)

IV Prospects

Multiculturalism and Universalism: A History and Critique

221

(20)

The Future of American History

241

(18)

Notes

259

(48)

Index

307

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Hanging Together : Unity and Diversity in American Culture

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