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American conservatism began to get sustained attention from academic historians after Alan Brinkley's 1994 article "the Problem of American Conservatism." Brinkley argued that since historians were generally unsympathetic to conservatism, they tended to ignore conservative movements and thinkers, characterizing conservatives as reactionaries on the wrong side of a progressive historical narrative. Brinkley's article inspired a generation of historians to take conservatism seriously.
Several examples of this work as well as Brinkley's article are included in the History of American Conservatism section below. Zelizer (2010 ) is a review essay of work inspired by Brikley's article. Farmer (2010 ) prematurely(?) sees American conservatism as in decline. Himmelstein (1992) and Genovese (1994) predate Brinkley's article. Genovese (1932-2012) a historian of the American South and American slavery, was best known for ''Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made'' (1974), which won the Bancroft Prize in 1975. Originally a Marxist who applied Antonio Gramsci's theory of cultural hegemony to slavery, Genovese became a conservative while researching 'The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism' (1994), included in this bibliography. In ''The Southern Tradition,'' Genovese examines the Southern agrarians who he came to admire. Per Wikipedia on August 1, 2017, "The Southern Agrarians, [Genovese] noted, also posed a challenge to modern American conservatives who have a mistaken belief in market capitalism's compatibility with traditional social values and family structures. Genovese agreed with the Agrarians in concluding that capitalism destroyed those institutions."
==History of American Conservatism==
