January 6 and the Politics of History - Downs, Jim; Mccurry, Stephanie; Freeman, Joanne B; Hinton, Elizabeth; Lepore, Jill; Sturkey, William; Zelizer, Julian E
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"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"--…mehr

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"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"--
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JIM DOWNS is the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of History at Gettysburg College. He is the author of Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction and the coeditor of Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation and Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America .