Bibliograph

Slavery and public history, the tough stuff of American memory, edited by James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton

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Slavery and public history, the tough stuff of American memory, edited by James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Slavery and public history

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

61229821

Responsibility statement

edited by James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton

Sub title

the tough stuff of American memory

Table Of Contents

Coming to terms with slavery in twenty-first-century America / Ira Berlin -- If you don't tell it like it was, it can never be as it ought to be / David W. Blight -- Slavery in American history: an uncomfortable national dialogue / James Oliver Horton -- The last great taboo subject: exhibiting slavery at the Library of Congress / John Michael Vlach -- For whom will the Liberty Bell toll? From controversy to cooperation / Gary B. Nash -- Recovering (from) slavery: four struggles to tell the truth / Joanne Melish -- Avoiding history: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the uncomfortable public conversation on slavery / Lois E. Horton -- Southern comfort levels: race, heritage tourism, and the Civil War in Richmond / Marie Tyler-McGraw -- "A cosmic threat": the National Park Service addresses the causes of the American Civil War / Dwight T. Pitcaithley -- In search of a usable past: neo-Confederates and black Confederates / Bruce Levine -- Epilogue: Reflections / Edward T. Linenthal

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