{"product_id":"reckoning-with-history-the-unfinished-stories-of-american-freedom-9780231192576","title":"Reckoning with History  The Unfinished Stories of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReckoning with History\u003c\/i\u003e 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. Covering a broad range of topics, these essays illuminate what it means to be a socially and politically engaged historian.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo recover a long-buried past in the archives is to experience the most extraordinary joy. But, as \u003ci\u003eReckoning with History\u003c\/i\u003e shows so beautifully, doing true justice to the past is at the real heart of what it means to be a historian. This moving volume reminds us all why the writing of history matters so very much to the world we live in and to the one we hope yet to make. -- Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eBlood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI love these essays. They are among the best ever written about the craft of history writing, the indispensability of creating and using archives, as well as the power of hindsight and new perspective to reconsider the meaning of the past. This brilliant anthology is perfect for this moment, just when we need to understand more than ever how American history becomes part of the public narrative of who we are. -- Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReckoning with History\u003c\/i\u003e is a celebration and testament to how one’s changing social and political commitments can—and indeed must—inform one’s historical work, as modeled by Eric Foner. The editors have put together a timely and insightful group of essays about why history matters and why engaging with the public should matter to historians. -- Adrienne Petty, author of \u003ci\u003eStanding Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina Since the Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReckoning with History: Unfinished Stories of American Freedom \u003c\/i\u003etransports the reader from the mundane names, dates, and events often associated with history class and into the world of the professional historian, opening students’ eyes to a world of research, interpretation, discussion, argumentation, and revision. By doing so, the authors of its well-written essays connect their thought-provoking work to contemporary social, cultural, and political events. -- Richard J. Stocking * The History Teacher *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction, by Jim Downs, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, T.K. Hunter, and Timothy Patrick McCarthy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Archives\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Looking for Ona Judge: An Unfinished Story of Freedom, by Erica Armstrong Dunbar\u003cbr\u003e2. “Like People in History”: Why Social History Matters to the LGBT Community, by Jim Downs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Revisions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. American Founders Reconsidered: The Case of Thomas Jefferson and Henry Christophe, by Ashli White\u003cbr\u003e4. The Civil War, Slavery, and the Problem of Neutrality, by April E. Holm\u003cbr\u003e5. Historians, Lincoln, and “the Ruining of America,\" by Matthew Taylor Raffety\u003cbr\u003e6. In Search of the Costs of Segregation, by Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: History Matters\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. Why Historical Film Matters, by Kellie Carter Jackson\u003cbr\u003e8. A Mob Museum Matters, by Michael Green\u003cbr\u003e9. On Living History and Stories Unfinished, by Timothy Patrick McCarthy\u003cbr\u003e10. In the Matter of Worth: The Value of Black Lives and the Law, by T.K. Hunter\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Eric Foner: Historian of American Freedom, by Katrina vanden Heuvel\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400341823831,"sku":"9780231192576","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231192576.jpg?v=1730470439","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reckoning-with-history-the-unfinished-stories-of-american-freedom-9780231192576","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}