AMERICAN HISTORY
F popular ideas of history are rather less hazy than usual when it comes to the United States, the credit should perhaps go to Hollywood. For while Hollywood films of European history are seldom above the level of the cos-tume-piece, théy are more often good than otherwise when dealing with their own past. The mirror may be a distorting one, but it reflects back to us something of how Americans feel about the Revolution or the Civil War, the opening of the West, or the American part | in two world wars. It was useful for the. | general listener to have these floating impressions attached to a firm Aramework, and this is something that Professor Van Deusen’s: talks on Trends in American History (from 1YC) have been well calculated to supply. The series, now. drawing to a.close, has pursued a | straightforward * chronological course. The most recent talk dealt with the Spanish-American War, the First World War and the tragedy of isolationism, and it was a good specimen of Professor Van Deusen’s lucid, interesting and dispassionate presentation. It suggested _ that there might be considerable value in gther historical series; on similarly / exténsive lines.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 716, 2 April 1953, Page 12
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193AMERICAN HISTORY New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 716, 2 April 1953, Page 12
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