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[imsotragic]

I have to write a 25 pager for my class on memory, and I'm having a little trouble finding a unique thesis as well as anthropological sources. My paper's roughly on social memory and the Founding Fathers, and I plan to talk about monuments, revisionist history (remember a couple years ago when apparently EVERY historical figure was gay?), and (this

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[technocracygirl]

In the most recent issue of American Sociological Review, there's a paper on the votes taken by the Constitutional Convention taken temporally and what this says about what the COnstitutional Founders were thinking and what their goals were and how this shifted throughout the Convention.

Even if the article itself isn't helpful, there might be more appropriate resources in the bibliography.

[caatinga]

Ummm...hmmm...I googled "American historiography" and go this: http://members.aol.com/dann01/scribner.html It don't look too perfessional, but it might be a good jumping off point for talking about these stories we tell ourselves...

Also, I've always wanted to read this one: http://www.booksamillion.com/ncom/books?pid=0521626099&ad=FGLBKS It's not quite what you're looking for, but the works cited might offer a few clues.

Good luck! If you're so inclined, I'd love to see where you take your 25-pager. Damn.

[normaltrouble]

You might want to take a look at America's Constitution~A Biography by Akhil Reed Amar.

[mister_chompy]

I don't know if it's exactly what your looking for but you might take a look at Myth, Memory, and the Making of the American Landscape by Paul Shackel.

[quakewave]

Good luck. I am about to start working on finializing my questions to ask some people for my paper in this very community!