Drawing on America's Past

The outer archives are busy

by Virginia Tuttle Clayton, Elizabeth Stillinger, Erika Doss

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In this 1918 article, "On Creating a Usable Past," literary critic Van Wyck Brooks lamented what he and many of his colleagues perceived as the poverty of American culture.

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