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xiii, 374 pages ; 22 cm |
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Bibliographical footnotes. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Profession of history: Abolitionists and psychology -- Lincoln and the first shot -- History as theater -- Era of reconstruction -- Limitations of history -- Three historians: Perry Miller, Barbara W. Tuchman and David M. Porter -- Political economy of slavery -- Northern response to slavery -- pt. 2. Movement: New equality -- Sammy Davis Jr.'s autobiography -- Howard Zinn's The Southern mystique and SNCC: the new abolitionists -- James Meredith and LeRoi Jones/James Meredith's march in Mississippi -- Four studies on the New Left -- Jack Newfield's A prophetic minority -- Relevance of anarchy -- Containment and change -- Prospects for SDS -- Martin Luther King Jr.'s Where do we go from here: chaos or community? -- Two studies of the Black community -- Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois -- William Styron's Nat Turner and Ten Black writers respond -- Agony of the American Left -- Black power and the American radical tradition -- pt. 3. Crisis of the universities: An experiment in education -- Dissenting academy -- Academic revolution -- On misunderstanding student rebels -- pt. 4. On becoming an historian. |
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United States -- Historiography.
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United States. |
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Historiography. |
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United States -- Social conditions -- Historiography.
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Social conditions. |
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African Americans -- Civil rights.
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African Americans -- Civil rights. |
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