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Providence and the Invention of American History
2021
Overview
How providential history-the conviction that God is an
active agent in human history-has shaped the American historical
imagination In 1847, Protestant missionary Marcus Whitman
was killed after a disastrous eleven-year effort to evangelize the
indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest. By 1897, Whitman was a
national hero, celebrated in textbooks, monuments, and historical
scholarship as the \"Savior of Oregon.\" But his fame was based on a
tall tale-one that was about to be exposed. Sarah Koenig traces the
rise and fall of Protestant missionary Marcus Whitman's legend,
revealing two patterns in the development of American history. On
the one hand is providential history, marked by the conviction that
God is an active agent in human history and that historical work
can reveal patterns of divine will. On the other hand is objective
history, which arose from the efforts of Catholics and other racial
and religious outsiders to resist providentialists' pejorative
descriptions of non†'Protestants and nonwhites. Koenig examines how
these competing visions continue to shape understandings of the
American past and the nature of historical truth.
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN
0300251009, 9780300251005
