![]() ![]() ![]() Immerwahr writes in “How to Hide an Empire,” “this shape would be it.” But even as the U.S. Americans are used to thinking about their past in terms of the map of the Lower 48 states-“if the country had a logo,” Mr. So Northwestern University history professor Daniel Immerwahr deserves credit for attempting a sweeping, accessible history of American expansion from colonial times onward. One reason for the history recession: Much of the work produced today is too narrow and esoteric to interest nonspecialists. Only 40% of Americans-27% under age 45-“demonstrate a basic understanding of American history,” according to a recent Woodrow Wilson Foundation survey. The share of college students who major in history has fallen by two-thirds since the early 1970s. Photo: Getty ImagesĪmerican history is in trouble-the discipline, that is. ![]() May 1, 1898: the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War. ![]()
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