Rescripting a Troubled Past: John Brown's Family and the Harpers Ferry Conspiracy.

McGlone, Robert E.

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ERIC Number: EJ389841

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Publication Date: 1989

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Rescripting a Troubled Past: John Brown's Family and the Harpers Ferry Conspiracy.

McGlone, Robert E.

Journal of American History, v75 n4 p1179-1200 Mar 1989

Uses autobiographical information constructed by John Brown's family in the aftermath of Harpers Ferry to illustrate the issue of rescripting of history. Points out that this nondeliberate rewriting of the past is a result of the personal need to refocus self-schema and the validation of false memories as authentic. (KO)

Descriptors: Civil War (United States), Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, History Instruction, Instructional Improvement, Memory, Schemata (Cognition), Slavery, Social Studies, United States History

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: West Virginia

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