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James Davison Hunter

“Are the Culture Wars History? New Comments on an Old Concept”

I am happy to publish the formal comments from the American Historical Association (AHA) panel that I chaired, titled, “Are the Culture Wars History? New Comments on an Old Concept.” (For a summary of the panel see Brantley Gasaway’s post here at John Fea’s blog.) Before I begin I would like to thank Mark Edwards, who teaches history at Spring Arbor University, and who put this panel together even though he was not on it, simply because he wanted it to happen. As a way to introduce our topic, let me briefly quote from the proposal that Mark wrote: There Read more