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that s why we have the concept of something being unamerican that is contrary to these american ideals. it s rare to hear a position described as un-italian or un-russian. you can have many ideas and still be russian because your nationalism is unrelated to idealogy. the united states, however, is a nation dedicated to a proposition, to use abraham lincoln s famous phrase. when we debate the past, we are debating the meaning of america. as the historian henry steele commodor once revealed, even though european states became more recently, asia and germany became nations about half a century after america, from them it can be said that the nation was a product of america, he wrote. but with the united states, history was the creation of the