This bibliography, which contains the sources for our sound bites, is not only much longer than the selected bibliography but is augmented greatly, especially with material relating to the the nature, purpose, and cultural function of history itself; to nationalism; and to the theory of representation -- and thus provides the widest context for studying the construction of history on film.  Large as it is, however, this bibliography represents only a part of the ever growing critical material on the subject of film and history.  Students will find other resources in the bibliographies of the various books and articles here.  And for a handy way to find materials that appear after December 1999 when this list was first compiled, see the book review sections of Film & History and Screening the Past.  Please send us your suggestions for additions to this list.

 
Abrash, Barbara, and Daniel J. Walkowitz.  "Sub/versions of History: A Meditation on Film and Historical Narrative." History Workshop Journal 38 (1994): 203-14.

Anderson, Benedict.  Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism.  London: Verso, 1983.

Appleby, Joyce, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob. Telling the Truth about History.  New York: Norton, 1994.

Bailyn, Bernard.  On the Teaching and Writing of History.  Hanover: UP of New England, 1994.

Baldwin, James.  "A Talk to Teachers." Multicultural Literacy.  Ed. Rick Simonson and Scott Walker.  St. Paul: Graywolf, 1988.

Beck, Warren, and Myles Clowers.  Understanding American History through Fiction.  New York: McGraw Hill, 1975.

Bennett, William J.  James Madison High School: A Curriculum for American Students.  Washington: U. S. Department of Education, 1987.

---. Our Children and Our Country: Improving America’s Schools and Affirming the Common Culture.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.

Berkhofer, Robert F., Jr.  Beyond the Great Story: History as Text and Discourse.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1995.

Berlant, Lauren.  The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1991.

Bhabha, Homi K., ed.  Nation and Narration.  London: Routledge, 1990.

Bodnar, John.  Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992.

Boller, Paul F., Jr.  Not So!  Popular Myths about America from Columbus to Clinton.  New York: Oxford UP, 1995.

Brennan, Timothy.  "The National Longing for Form."  Nation and Narration.  Ed. Homi K. Bhabha.  London: Routledge, 1990.  41-70.

Briley, Ron.  "Reel History:  U.S. History, 1932-1972, As Viewed Through the Lens of Hollywood."  History Teacher 23.3 (1990): 215-36.

Brooks, Van Wyck.  "On Creating a Usable Past." Dial 64 (1918): 337-41.

Browne, Ray B.  "Foreword."  Hollywood as Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context.  Ed. Peter C. Rollins.  Louisville: UP of Kentucky, 1998.  ix-x.

Burgoyne, Robert.  Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1997.

---.  “Prosthetic memory/ traumatic memory: Forrest Gump (1994).”  Screening the Past 6 (1999): n. pag.  Online.  Internet.  20 Oct. 1999.  <http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/screeningthepast/index.html>

Burke, Peter.  "History as Social Memory." Memory: History, Culture and the Mind.  Ed. Thomas Butler.  London: Basil Blackwell, 1989.  97-113.

Burns, E. Bradford.  Latin American Cinema: Film and History.  Los Angeles: U of California, 1975.

Cameron, Kenneth M.  America on Film: Hollywood and American History.  New York: Continuum, 1997.

Canfield, J. Douglas.  Mavericks on the Border: The Early Southwest in Historical Fiction and Film.  Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2001.

Carnes, Marc C., ed.  Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies.  New York: H. Holt, 1995.

Carr, Edward Hallett.  What Is History?  London: MacMillan, 1961.

Cheyney, Lynne V.  American Memory: A Report on the Humanities in the Nation's Public Schools.  Washington: National Endowment for the Humanities, 1988.

---.  "The End of History."  Wall Street Journal, Oct 20, 1994,  A26.

Collingwood, R. G.  The Idea of History.  Oxford: Clarendon P, 1946.

Commager, Henry Steele.  The Nature and Study of History.  Columbus: Merrill, 1965.

Cortes, Carlos E.  "Them and Us: Immigration as Social Barometer and Social Educator in American Film."  Hollywood As Mirror: Changing Views of "Outsiders" and "Enemies" in American Movies.  Ed. Robert Brent Toplin.  Westport: Greenwood P, 1993.  53-74.

Cronon, William.  "A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative." Journal of American History 78.4 (1992): 1347-76.

Crowdus, Gary, ed.  The Political Companion to American Film.  Chicago: Lakeview P, 1994.

Custen, George F.  Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History.  New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1992.

Davis, Natalie Zemon.  Slaves on Screen: Film and Historical Vision.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2000.

Dorris, Michael.  "Why I'm Not Thankful for Thanksgiving."  Council on Interracial Books for Children Bulletin 9.7 (1978).

Du Bois, W. E. B.  Black Reconstruction.  1935.  Cleveland: World Meridian, 1964.

Eley, Geoff, and Ronald Grigor Suny.  Becoming National: A Reader.  New York: Oxford UP, 1996.

Elton, Geoffrey.  The Practice of History.  London: Fontana, 1969.

Evans, Richard J.  In Defense of History.  New York: Norton, 1999.

Ferro, Marc.  The Use and Abuse of History.  Boston: Routledge, 1981.

Fishbein, Leslie.  "Hollywood's Harlots, 1900-1930: Fallen Women and the American Dream Machine."  Hollywood As Mirror: Changing Views of "Outsiders" and "Enemies" in American Movies.  Ed. Robert Brent Toplin.  Westport: Greenwood P, 1993.  75-94.

FitzGerald, Frances.  America Revisited: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth Century.  New York : Vintage Books, 1980.

---. Fire in the Lake.  Boston: Atlantic, 1972.

Foucault, Michel.  Power/Knowedge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977.  New York: Pantheon, 1980.

Gellner, Ernest.  Nations and Nationalism.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1983.

Gianos, Phillip L.  Politics and Politicians in American Film.  Westport: Praeger, 1998.

Hall, Stuart.  "The Question of Cultural Identity." Modernity and Its Futures.  Ed. Stuart Hall, David Held, and Tony McGrew.  Cambridge: The Open University, 1992.  273-316.

Hamerow, Theodore S.  Reflections on History and Historians.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1987.

Harlan, David.  The Degradation of American History.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1997.

Hirsch, E. D., Jr.  Cultural Literacy : What Every American Needs to Know.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.

Jenkins, Keith.  On "What is History"?   London: Routledge, 1995.

---. Re-Thinking History.  London: Routledge, 1991.

Kammen, Michael.  Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture.  New York: Alfred A. Knoff, 1991.

---.  "On Knowing the Past." The Vital Past: Writings on the Uses of History.  Ed. Stephen Vaughn.  Athens: U of Georgia P, 1985.  55-57.

Landsberg, Alison.  "America, the Holocaust, and the Mass Culture of Memory: Toward a Radical Politics of Empathy." New German Critique 71 (1997): 63-86.

----.  "Prosthetic Memory: The Logics and Politics of Memory in Modern American Culture."  Ph.D. dissertation, U of Chicago, 1996.

Landy, Marcia. The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media.  New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2000.

Lerner, Gerda.  "The Necessity of History and the Professional Historian." The Vital Past: Writings on the Uses of History.  Ed. Stephen Vaughn.  Athens: U of Georgia P, 1985.  104-15.

Limbaugh, Rush H., III.  See, I Told You So.  New York: Pocket Books, 1994.

Lipsitz, George.  Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1990.

Loewen, James W. Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong.  New York: New Press, 1999.

Loewen, James W.  Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.

Marrou, Henri-Irenee.  "The Usefulness of History."  The Vital Past: Writings on the Uses of History.  Ed. Stephen Vaughn.  Athens: U of Georgia P, 1985.  130-48.

Marshall, Brenda.  Teaching the Postmodern.  London: Routledge, 1992.

Marwick, Arthur.  The Nature of History.  New York: Knopf, 1971.

Medved, Michael.  Hollywood vs. America.  New York: Harper Perennial, 1993.

Mintz, Steven, and Randy Roberts, eds. Hollywood's America: United States History through Its Films.  St. James: Brandywine P, 1993.

Moore, Robert.  Reconstruction: The Promise and the Betrayal of Democracy.  New York: Council on Interracial Books for Children, 1983.

Muller, Herbert J.   The Uses of the Past: Profiles of Former Societies.  New York: Oxford UP, 1952.

Nash, Gary B.  "American History Reconsidered: Asking New Questions about the Past."  Learning from the Past: What History Teaches Us about School Reform.  Eds. Diane Ravitch and Maris A. Vinovskis.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1995.  135-63.

Nash, Gary B., Charlotte Crabtree, and Ross E. Dunn. History on Trial: Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past.  New York: Knopf, 1997.

National Standards for United States History.  Los Angeles: National Center for History in the Schools, University of California at Los Angeles, 1995.

Nevins, Allan.  "A Proud Word for History." The Vital Past: Writings on the Uses of History.  Ed. Stephen Vaughn.  Athens: U of Georgia P, 1985.  236-48.

Nietzsche, Friedrich.  Beyond Good and Evil.  New York: MacMillan, 1907.

Nkrumah, Kwame.  Consciencism.  New York: Monthly Review Press, 1964.

Nye, Russel B.  "Foreword."  In Donald V. Gawronski.  History: Meaning and Method.  Glenview: Scott Foresman, 1975.

O’Connor, John E., and Martin A. Jackson, eds. American History/American Film: Interpreting the Hollywood Image.  New York: Ungar, 1979.

O' Leary, Cecilia Elizabeth.  To Die For: The Paradox of American Patriotism.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1999.

Paris, Michael.  The First World War and Popular Cinema: 1914 to the Present.  New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2000.

Perkin, Harold.  "The Uses of History." The Vital Past: Writings on the Uses of History.  Ed. Stephen Vaughn.  Athens: U of Georgia P, 1985.  68-71.

Pitts, Michael R.  Hollywood and American History: A Filmography of Over 250 Motion Pictures Depicting U.S. History.  Jefferson: McFarland, 1984.

Prince, Stephen.  Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Film.  Westport: Praeger, 1992.

Renan, Ernest.  "What Is a Nation?" Nation and Narration.  Ed. Homi K. Bhabha.  London: Routledge, 1990.  8-22.

Rogers, P. J.  History: Why, What, and How?  London: The Historical Association, 1987.

Rollins, Peter C., ed.  Hollywood as Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context.  Louisville: UP of Kentucky, 1998.

Rollins, Peter C., and John E. O’Connor, eds. Hollywood's Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film.  Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1998.

---.  Hollywood’s World War I: Motion Picture Images.  Bowling Green: Bowling Green State U Popular P, 1997.

Roquemore, Joseph.  History Goes to the Movies: A Viewer's Guide to the Best (and Some of the Worst) Historical Films Ever Made.  New York: Doubleday, 1999.

Rosenstone, Robert A.  Visions of the Past: The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1995.

Ryan, Michael, and Douglas Kellner.  Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1988.

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.  The Disuniting of America.  New York: Norton, 1992.

---.  "Foreward."  American History/American Film: Interpreting the Hollywood Image.  Eds. John E. O’Connor and Martin A. Jackson.  New York: Ungar, 1979.  ix-xiii.

Scruton, Roger.  "Authority and Allegiance." Politics and Ideology.  Eds. J. Donald and Stuart Hall.  Cambridge: The Open University, 1986.

Shafer, Boyd C.  "Not Art, Not Science, But History."  The Vital Past: Writings on the Uses of History.  Ed. Stephen Vaughn.  Athens: U of Georgia P, 1985.  149-57.

Shenkman, Richard.  Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of American History.  New York: Harper and Row, 1988.

Simpson, Philip L.  Psycho Paths: Tracking the Serial Killer through Contemporary American Film and Fiction.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois P, 2000.

Smith, Anthony D.  National Identity.  Reno: U of Nevada P, 1991.

Stephens, Lester D.  "The Uses of History." The Vital Past: Writings on the Uses of History.  Ed. Stephen Vaughn.  Athens: U of Georgia P, 1985.  98-103.

Stevens, Donald F.  Based on a True Story: Latin American History at the Movies.  Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 1997.

Stuart Hall: Representation and Media.  Prod. Sut Jhally.  Videocassette.  Media Education Foundation, 1996.

Toplin, Robert Brent.  History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past.  Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1996.

---.  "The Filmaker as Historian." American Historical Review 93.5 (1988): 1210-27.

---, ed. Hollywood As Mirror: Changing Views of "Outsiders" and "Enemies" in American Movies.  Westport: Greenwood P, 1993.

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph.  Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History.  Boston: Beacon P, 1995.

Turner, Frederick Jackson.  "The Significance of History."  The Vital Past: Writings on the Uses of History.  Ed. Stephen Vaughn.  Athens: U of Georgia P, 1985.  177-88.

Van Deburg, William L.  "A Popular Culture Prophecy: Black American Slavery in Film."  Hollywood As Mirror: Changing Views of "Outsiders" and "Enemies" in American Movies.  Ed. Robert Brent Toplin.  Westport: Greenwood P, 1993.  19-40.

Vaughn, Stephen.  "History: Is It Relevant?" The Vital Past: Writings on the Uses of History.  Athens: U of Georgia P, 1985.  1-19.

---, ed. The Vital Past: Writings on the Uses of History.  Athens: U of Georgia P, 1985.

Walkowitz, Daniel J.  "Re-Screening the Past: Subversion Narratives and the Politics of History."  Screening the Past: Film and the Representation of History.  Westport: Praeger, 1998.

White, Hayden.  The Content of the Form.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1987.

---.   "Historiography and Historiophoty." American Historical Review 93.5 (1988): 1193-99.

---. Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1973.

---. Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.

Weiner, Tim.  "The Cold War Freezer Keeps Historians Out."  New York Times, May 23, 1995, E5.

Wilson, Wendy S., and Gerald H. Herman.  American History on the Screen: A Teacher's Resource Book on Film and Video.  Portland: J. Weston Walch, 1994.

Zamora, Lois Parkinson.  The Usable Past: The Imagination of History in Recent Fiction of the Americas.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.

Zinn, Howard.  The Politics of History.  Boston: Beacon P, 1970.