[REVIEW OF] The Cabinet George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution by Lindsay M. Chervinsky

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Making Habeas Work : A Legal History [Book review]

Reviewed book: Making Habeas Work: A Legal History. By Eric M. Freedman. New York: New York University Press, 2018. viii, 197 pp.a book reviewNon peer reviewe

REVIEW OF Jefferson's Body : A Corporeal Biography

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Bidding Farewell to Confederate Statues : Landscape, Politics, and American History

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Rights and Slavery in Thomas Jefferson's Political Thought

Thomas Jefferson is famous for his advocacy of equal rights of men, religious freedom, and democracy throughout the United States. He is equally (in)famous for his racist statements, for his little concern for women's rights, for his apparently unrealistic anti-slavery policies, and for his strongly anti-Federalist politics. This article will make clear that his political solution to the problem of slavery was not as far-fetched at the time as many scholars still tend to think it was. His fame as the high priest of minimal government also needs to be reconsidered given his hugely expensive, governmental solution to the problem of slavery. It is also important to grasp how very restricted a role Jefferson attributed to the federal government in putting his abolition plan into effect. The only aspect concerning the federal government in Jefferson's plan had to do with financing and sending slaves abroad after each state's individual decision of emancipation

Letting Go of Narrative History: The Linearity of Time and the Art of Recounting the Past

This paper argues that we can let go of the conception of narrative history, not because we know history to be something else entirely, but because the conception too often leads to needless confusion about the methodological basics of historical research among both history students and professional historians themselves. One may view history simply as knowledge of the past and as an ongoing discussion between historians (and other interested parties) over the best account of any given past phenomenon. Given that we politically disagree on where exactly history has brought us, the safest epistemological position for a practicing historian is that the past is just as messy as our own present in which we attempt to find political solutions for a better future. Rather than clinging to any inherently narrative character of history, or of historical representation, the practicing historian may well concentrate on explaining the meaning of a given phenomenon in the past and its possible historical significance for the present, and at least attempt to distinguish between these two

Letting go of Narrative History

This paper argues that we can let go of the conception of narrative history, not because we know history to be something else entirely, but because the conception too often leads to needless confusion about the methodological basics of historical research among both history students and professional historians themselves. One may view history simply as knowledge of the past and as an ongoing discussion between historians (and other interested parties) over the best account of any given past phenomenon. Given that we politically disagree on where exactly history has brought us, the safest epistemological position for a practicing historian is that the past is just as messy as our own present in which we attempt to find political solutions for a better future. Rather than clinging to any inherently narrative character of history, or of historical representation, the practicing historian may well concentrate on explaining the meaning of a given phenomenon in the past and its possible historical significance for the present, and at least attempt to distinguish between these two

Järki käteen tasa-arvokoulutuksessa

Opetushallituksen valtakeskustelumateriaalissa käytetään syrjäytyneisyys-käsitettä tavalla, joka edustaa vinoutunutta yhteiskunta-ajattelua eikä sovi Suomeen

U.S. Statues, Multiculturalism, and History

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