January 6 and the Politics of History

January 6 and the Politics of History - Paperback

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January 6 and the Politics of History - Paperback

January 6 and the Politics of History - Paperback

by Jim Downs , Stephanie McCurry
$25.87
$25.87

Book Overview

On January 6, 2021, more than two thousand rioters stormed the doors of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., hoping to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power from former president Donald Trump to his successor, Joseph Biden. The deaths, property damage, and vicious rampage that ensued were witnessed on live television as an unprecedented attack on the democratic process and those who strive to protect it.

As an installment of UGA Press's History in the Headlines series, this book offers a rich discussion between highly respected scholars on the historical backdrop and context for contemporary issues from the headlines. In addition to the historical context, this conversation demonstrates how historians speak to one another about contentious topics and how they contribute in meaningful ways to the public's understanding of momentous events. This volume focuses on the historical context of the January 6 attack and employs a free-flowing conversation style that allows the historians a more unconventional format. The participants discuss if--and if so, how--historians should engage in public debates and what that engagement means to their roles as academic authorities in the public.
ISBN9780820364049
Author Jim Downs , Stephanie McCurry
PublisherUniversity of Georgia Press
GenreNews & politics
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages144
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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January 6 and the Politics of History

January 6 and the Politics of History - Paperback

January 6 and the Politics of History - Paperback

By Jim Downs and Stephanie McCurry
About Jim Downs
JIM DOWNS is a professor of history and American studies at Connecticut College. He is the author of Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction and the coeditor of Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation (Georgia) and Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America.
About Stephanie McCurry
JIM DOWNS is the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of History at Gettysburg College, a 2025-26 Guggenheim Fellow, and the director of the African American History Program at the Library Company of Philadelphia. In addition to coediting Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation and Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America, he has authored Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine; and Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction. Stephanie McCurry (Author)

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