ABSTRACT
Gagnon is also, in and through language, enacting a specific social identity as a particular type of historian (against other types of historians), a historian who connects history, citizenship, patriotism, and schools together in a certain way. We might call him a "traditional" or "conservative" historian. Furthermore, his text is only a part of a larger project in which he was engaged, a project in setting standards for school history and fighting the "history wars" against those who hold radically different perspectives on the nature, purposes, and goals of history, schooling, and society than he does.
