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 politics of history through key episodes across a wide range of struggles for freedom. They shed new light on how different groups have defined and fought for freedom throughout American history, as well as the ways in which the ideal of freedom remains unrealized today. Covering a broad range of topics, these essays offer insight into how historians practice their craft in different ways and illuminate what it means to be a socially and politically engaged historian.
Tabela de Conteúdo
Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Jim Downs, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, T.K. Hunter, and Timothy Patrick Mc Carthy
Part I: Archives
1. Looking for Ona Judge: An Unfinished Story of Freedom, by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
2. “Like People in History”: Why Social History Matters to the LGBT Community, by Jim Downs
Part II: Revisions
3. American Founders Reconsidered: The Case of Thomas Jefferson and Henry Christophe, by Ashli White
4. The Civil War, Slavery, and the Problem of Neutrality, by April E. Holm
5. Historians, Lincoln, and “the Ruining of America, ‘ by Matthew Taylor Raffety
6. In Search of the Costs of Segregation, by Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant
Part III: History Matters
7. Why Historical Film Matters, by Kellie Carter Jackson
8. A Mob Museum Matters, by Michael Green
9. On Living History and Stories Unfinished, by Timothy Patrick Mc Carthy
10. In the Matter of Worth: The Value of Black Lives and the Law, by T.K. Hunter
Epilogue: Eric Foner: Historian of American Freedom, by Katrina vanden Heuvel
Contributors
Index
Sobre o autor
Jim Downs is the Gilder Lehrman–National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Era Studies and History at Gettysburg College. He is also the editor of the journal Civil War History.Erica Armstrong Dunbar is the Charles and Mary Beard Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University. She serves as the national director of the Association of Black Women Historians.T.K. Hunter (1956–2018) was a historian of slavery and freedom in the Atlantic world who taught a wide variety of courses at Western Connecticut State University, Princeton University, Columbia University, Montclair State University, Horace Mann School, Manhattan College, Brooklyn College, the New School, and City College of New York.Timothy Patrick Mc Carthy holds a joint faculty appointment at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is also the Stanley Paterson Professor of American History in the Boston Clemente Course in the Humanities.
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