The uncompleted past /
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Random House,
[1969]
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. The profession of history: The abolitionists and psychology
- Lincoln and the first shot
- History as theater
- The era of reconstruction
- The limitations of history
- Three historians: Perry Miller, Barbara W. Tuchman and David M. Porter
- The political economy of slavery
- The Northern response to slavery
- pt. 2. The movement: The 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
- The relevance of anarchy
- Containment and change
- The prospects for SDS
- Martin Luther King Jr.'s Where do we go from here: chaos or community?
- Two studies of the Black community
- The autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois
- William Styron's Nat Turner and Ten Black writers respond
- The agony of the American Left
- Black power and the American radical tradition
- pt. 3. The crisis of the universities: An experiment in education
- The dissenting academy
- The academic revolution
- On misunderstanding student rebels
- pt. 4. On becoming an historian.