Historians sometimes forget that history is continually being made and experienced before it is studied, interpreted, and read. These latter activities have their own history, of course, which may impinge in unexpected ways on public events. It is difficult to predict when “new pasts” will overturn established historical interpretations and change the course of history.
In the fall of 1954, for example, C. Vann Woodward delivered a lecture series at the University of Virginia which challenged the prevailing dogma concerning the history, continuity, and uniformity of racial segregation in the South. He argued that the Jim Crow laws of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries not only codified traditional practice but also were a determined effort to erase the considerable progress made by Black people during and after Reconstruction in the 1870’s. This revisionist view of Jim Crow legislation grew in part from the research that Woodward had done for the NAACP legal campaign during its preparation for Brown v. Board of Education. The Supreme Court had issued its ruling in this epochal desegregation case a few months before Woodward’s lectures.
The lectures were soon published as a book, The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Ten years later, in a preface to the second revised edition, Woodward confessed with ironic modesty that the first edition “had begun to sffuer under some of the handicaps that might be expected in a history of the American Revolution published in 1776.” That was a bit like hearing Thomas Paine apologize for the timing of his pamphlet Common Sense, which had a comparable impact. Although Common Sense also had a mass readership, Paine had intended to reach and inspire : he was not a historian, and thus not concerned with accuracy or the dangers of historical anachronism. Yet, like Paine, Woodward had an unerring sense of the revolutionary moment, and of how historical evidence could undermine the mythological tradition that was crushing the dreams of new social possibilities. Martin Luther King, Jr., testified to the profound effect of The Strange Career of Jim Crow on the civil rights movement by praising the book and quoting it frequently.
2.It can be inferred from the passage that the “prevailing dogma” (line 10) held that
(A) Jim Crow laws were passed to give legal status to well-established discriminatory practices in the South
(B) Jim Crow laws were passed to establish order and uniformity in the discriminatory practices of different southern states
(C) JimCrow laws were passed to erase the social gains that Black people had achieved since Reconstruction
(D) thecontinuity of racial segregation in the South was disrupted by passage of Jim Crow laws
(E) the Jim Crow laws of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were passed to reverse the effect of earlier Jim Crow laws
2.social gains 文章中没有，文中讲的是concerning the history, continuity, and uniformity of racial segregation in the South.对应的只有d.
recomment:这道题答案有问题，我觉得应该是a,首先排除b，c，e,因为文中讲的是in the south.这个是根本。但是我觉得a更适合。因为d更像他C. Vann Woodward 的意思，的观点。我查了一下历史资料，觉得a更合适。选d理解是不通的。开始我始终很困惑。觉得选d，怎么体现challenge?现在可以选a我觉得更合适。勘误。
3.handicaps:不利因素had begun to suffer under some of the handicaps that might be expected in a history of the American Revolution published in 1776.” That was a bit like hearing Thomas Paine apologize for the timing of his pamphlet Common Sense,意思是说这个是马后炮，事后诸葛亮，你都出版了，到第二版的前言你才说有问题，没意思了。举例子说培恩为commone sense的timing道歉，可是它已经存在了，那有怎么样呢？(C) A newspaper article assessing the historical importance of a United States President written shortly after the President has taken office可以匹配
4.Both had works published in the midst of important historical events.文中在哪？ 其实是楼主对历史不了解。The Supreme Court had issued its ruling in this epochal desegregation case a few months before Woodward’s lectures. Thomas Paine apologize for the timing of his pamphlet Common Sense和american independent War
Both exhibited an understanding of the relevance of historical evidence to contemporary issues.文中在哪？ Woodward/Jim Crow laws,Thomas Paine/erican independent War
The works of both had a significant effect on events following their publication. 文中在哪？ The Supreme Court had issued its ruling in this epochal desegregation case a few months before Woodward’s lectures. Thomas Paine/ independent War ->如果你还有疑问可以百度一下Thomas Paine
5.第一段，作者亮观点：Historians sometimes forget that history is continually being made and experienced before it is studied, interpreted, and read. These latter activities have their own history, of course, which may impinge in unexpected ways on public events. It is difficult to predict when “new pasts” will overturn established historical interpretations and change the course of history. 其实作者没有什么特别的态度。第二段举例就是C. Vann Woodward 。态度不明确。但是没有特别批评，其他的选项不适合，用排除法可以排除的。
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