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described as un-italian or un-russian. you can espouse any ideas and still be russian because your nationalism is unrelated to ideology. 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 commager once observed, 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 nation. for americans the country s history is not the accumulation of past events but rather the