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Beschreibung
"As an installment of UGA Press's 'History in the Headlines' series, this book offers a rich discussion between highly respected scholars on the historical backdrop and context for contemporary "issues" (from the headlines). In addition to the historical context, these "conversations" demonstrate how historians speak to one another about contentious topics and can contribute in meaningful ways to the public's understanding. This volume focuses on the historical context of the January 6th invasion of the U.S. Capitol. In the free-flowing conversation, the participants also discussed if - and if so, how - historians should engage in public debates"--
"As an installment of UGA Press's 'History in the Headlines' series, this book offers a rich discussion between highly respected scholars on the historical backdrop and context for contemporary "issues" (from the headlines). In addition to the historical context, these "conversations" demonstrate how historians speak to one another about contentious topics and can contribute in meaningful ways to the public's understanding. This volume focuses on the historical context of the January 6th invasion of the U.S. Capitol. In the free-flowing conversation, the participants also discussed if - and if so, how - historians should engage in public debates"--
Über den Autor
JIM DOWNS is the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of History at Gettysburg College, a 2025-26 Guggenheim Fellow, and the director of the African American History Program at the Library Company of Philadelphia. In addition to coediting Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation and Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America, he has authored Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine; and Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: History in the Headlines
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780820364049
ISBN-10: 0820364045
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hinton, Elizabeth
Lepore, Jill
Downs, Jim
Freeman, Joanne B.
Zelizer, Julian E.
Mccurry, Stephanie
Sturkey, William
Redaktion: Downs, Jim
Hersteller: University of Georgia Press
History in the Headlines
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 128 x 178 x 11 mm
Von/Mit: Elizabeth Hinton (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2024
Gewicht: 0,164 kg
Artikel-ID: 128116780

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