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Joyce Oldham Appleby (April 9, 1929 – December 23, 2016) was an American historian. She was a professor of history at UCLA. She served as president of the Organization of American Historians (1991) and the American Historical Association (1997).

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Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

Attempt, Creating, Inseparable, Should, Suppress, Trying

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

Alas, Depends, Forget, Remember, Remembering, Sanity

It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.

Passion, Past, Diversity, Energies, Visceral, History

Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys with detail, coherence, and sophistication the changes in the American economy in the nineteenth century under the multiple imperatives of capitalism.

Coherence, Details, Dozen, Essays, Multiple, Whole

Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is.

Capitalist, Creation, Exploitation, Wealth, Wealth Creation

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