Archive for the ‘James Sidbury’ Category

In a special issue of the Common Place, historians weigh in on the early American books that inspire them as teachers and researchers: The nine historians featured here treat literature as evidence, but they do not see the books they recommend as repositories of neutral “facts.” Carolyn Eastman considers the readers of a frequently reprinted [...]

On February 28, 2008, Harvard University Press will release Vincent Brown’s The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery. What are people saying? From the HUP website: Vincent Brown makes the dead talk. With his deep learning and powerful historical imagination, he calls upon the departed to explain the living. The [...]





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