Reckoning with History : : Unfinished Stories of American Freedom / / ed. by T. K. Hunter, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Jim Downs.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Armstrong Dunbar, Erica,; Carter Jackson, Kellie,; Downs, Jim,; Green, Michael,; Herbin-Triant, Elizabeth A.,; Holm, April E.,; Hunter, T.K.,; Mccarthy, Timothy Patrick,; Raffety, Matthew Taylor,; Vanden Heuvel, Katrina,; White, Ashli,
• HerausgeberIn: Downs, Jim,; Dunbar, Erica Armstrong,; Hunter, T. K.,; McCarthy, Timothy Patrick,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Reckoning with History brings together original essays from a diverse group of historians who consider how writing about the past can engage with the urgent issues of the present. The contributors—all former students of the distinguished Columbia University historian Eric Foner—explore the uses and...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• PART I: ARCHIVES
• 1. LOOKING FOR ONA JUDGE: AN UNFINISHED STORY OF FREEDOM
• 2. “LIKE PEOPLE IN HISTORY”: WHY SOCIAL HISTORY MATTERS TO THE LGBT COMMUNITY
• PART II: REVISIONS
• 3. AMERICAN FOUNDERS RECONSIDERED: THE CASE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON AND HENRY CHRISTOPHE
• 4 THE CIVIL WAR, SLAVERY, AND THE PROBLEM OF NEUTRALITY
• 5 HISTORIANS, LINCOLN, AND “THE RUINING OF AMERICA”
• 6 IN SEARCH OF THE COSTS OF SEGREGATION
• PART III: HISTORY MATTERS
• 7 WHY HISTORICAL FILM MATTERS
• 8 A MOB MUSEUM MATTERS
• 9 ON LIVING HISTORY AND STORIES UNFINISHED
• 10 IN THE MATTER OF WORTH
• EPILOGUE
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX