Why is there so much conservatism in the United States and why do so few historians know anything...

CONSERVATISM; RIGHT & left (Political science) -- History; LIBERALISM

Comments on Alan Brinkley's essay `The Problem of American Conservatism'. Brinkley's essay as an embodiment of a body of work by other historians; New Left historiography; Bringing studies of the Right into the historiographical mainstream; Relationship between liberalism and conservatism.