Item Detail
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25603
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3
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44
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English
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Early Mormonism and the Re-enchantment of Antebellum Historical Thought
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Journal of Mormon History
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Summer 2012
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38
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3
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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187-209
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Antebellum Americans viewed the past from a unique vantage point. Having won political independence from a monarchy perceived as looking backward, this forward-looking republic sensed a need for usable histories to validate its democratic experiment. The period's "Party of Hope" renounced the past and advanced an American Adamic myth that embraced atemporal innocence. Other thinkers envisioned the new nation as the culmination of Old World history, designating the past as prefatory and, in this way, compensating for shallow historical roots [from the article].
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