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Mainstreams and Cutting Edges
- Journal of the Early Republic
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 36, Number 2, Summer 2016
- pp. 319-325
- 10.1353/jer.2016.0020
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In this think piece, the author argues that the “grand American narrative” has remained surprisingly impervious to several decades of the feminist challenge. She muses about why this might be the case, notes some political implications of sustaining a traditional narrative, and offers several metaphors to help historians re-imagine a new history.