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Bibliographic Details
Contributors:	Horton, James Oliver., Horton, Lois E.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New Press : Distributed by Norton, c2006.
Subjects and Genres:	Slavery > United States > History. Slavery > Political aspects > United States > History. Slavery > United States > Historiography. Public history > United States. Historic sites > Political aspects > United States. Slavernij. Geschiedschrijving. Collectief geheugen. United States > Race relations.
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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.