Reckoning with history : unfinished stories of American freedom /
edited by Jim Downs, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, T. K. Hunter, and Timothy Patrick McCarthy.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Archives -- Looking for Ona Judge : an unfinished story of freedom / "Like people in history" : why social history matters to the LGBT community / Revisions -- American founders reconsidered : the case of Thomas Jefferson and Henry Christophe / The Civil War, slavery, and the problem of neutrality / Historians, Lincoln, and the ruining of America / In search of the costs of segregation / by Erica Armstrong Dunbar -- by Jim Downs -- by Ashli White -- by April E. Holm -- by Matthew Taylor Raffety -- by Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant History matters -- Why historical film matters / A mob museum matters / Living (American) history : on awakening and becoming / In the matter of worth : the value of black lives and the law / Epilogue: Eric Foner : historian of American freedom / by Kellie Carter Jackson -- by Michael Green -- by Timothy Patrick McCarthy -- by T.K. Hunter -- by Katrina vanden Heuvel.
" 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"--