在过去的三十年,历史学家扩大他们的纪律的范围包括许多以前被忽视的主题和观点。他们记录语言、疯狂、性别和性,尝试了新形式的演示。他们已经把非西方民族的历史和陷入困境的“西方”和其他关系。艾伦·梅吉尔欢迎这些进展,但他也表明,现在历史学家的困惑什么是合理的账户过去。在历史知识、历史错误,梅吉尔驱散的一些困惑。在这里,他探讨了问题的叙述,客观性,和记忆。他攻击他认为不负责任的使用的证据而接受的艺术投机,不完整的证据力量在历史学家。在这个过程中,他提供了简洁的认识论道路历史学家从希罗多德和修昔底德Alexis de Tocqueville通过利奥波德·冯·兰克和海登白色,娜塔莉Zemon戴维斯,林恩打猎。
这些天它已成为司空见惯的“打开”文本。声音和视觉是一本关于包装的散文。而历史是奖学金,也是艺术,文学。虽然没有必要模仿小说,跌入回忆录,或者成为自我参照文本,其成分是否需要注意和通知。声音和视觉是为那些希望了解文学因素可以提高写作的方法。问题不在于写作是学术或流行,叙事或分析,但是否好。小说都有堆积如山的指南;新闻已经“货架手册;某些混合动力车等创造性的非小说和新新闻已经进化标准,美学,理由如何转移小说的主导模式在非小说主题。但历史和其他严重或学术非小说没有什么可比性。 Now this curious omission is addressed by Stephen Pyne as he analyzes and teaches the craft that undergirds whole realms of nonfiction and book-based academic disciplines. With eminent good sense concerning the unique problems posed by research-based writing and with a wealth of examples from accomplished writers, Pyne, an experienced and skilled writer himself, explores the many ways to understand what makes good nonfiction, and explains how to achieve it. His counsel and guidance will be invaluable to experts as well as novices in the art of writing serious and scholarly nonfiction.
民权运动的女性:开拓者和火炬手,1941 - 1965通过维姬·l·克劳福德(编辑);杰奎琳·a·劳斯(编辑);芭芭拉·伍兹(编辑)“女性在民权运动有助于打破性别界限,限制女性在民权的历史背景和后台的角色,并将它们在前面,在后面,中间的运动,改变了美国南部....这是一个宝贵的资源帮助纠正历史。”-- Julian Bond ..". remains one of the best single sources currently available on the unique contributions of Black women in the desegregation movement." -- Manning Marable Rewrites the history of the civil rights movement, recognizing the contributions of Black women.
一个强大的美国妇女解放运动的研究,from abolitionist days to the present, that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders. From the widely revered and legendary political activist and scholar Angela Davis.
罗莎·帕克斯常常被描述为一个甜蜜和沉默的老年妇女的疲倦的双脚造成她蔑视蒙哥马利市公车上的种族隔离制度,和所谓的孤独的,自发的行动引发了1955总线抵制生了民权运动。罗莎·帕克斯是谁,真正的真相躺在1955年抵制远不同于以前写的。开创性和重要的书,丹尼尔McGuire写到1944年强奸二十四岁的母亲和收益分成的佃农,Recy泰勒,谁后漫步走向回家的晚上唱歌和岩石在阿布维尔希尔神圣教堂祈祷,阿拉巴马州。七个白人,长刀和猎枪,下令年轻女子到绿色的雪佛兰,强奸了她,导致她死亡。总统当地全国有色人种协进会的分公司将他最好的侦探和组织者阿布维尔。她的名字叫罗莎·帕克斯。在这种情况下,公园里发起了一项运动,最终改变了世界。作者给了我们never-before-told民权运动开始的历史;如何在抗议仪式的部分开始强奸白人黑人妇女的经济威胁,性暴力,和恐怖破坏自由运动;和这些部队坚持惩罚整个种族隔离时代,白人强奸黑人妇女实施种族和经济规则的层次结构。 Black women’s protests against sexual assault and interracial rape fueled civil rights campaigns throughout the South that began during World War II and went through to the Black Power movement. The Montgomery bus boycott was the baptism, not the birth, of that struggle. At the Dark End of the Street describes the decades of degradation black women on the Montgomery city buses endured on their way to cook and clean for their white bosses. It reveals how Rosa Parks, by 1955 one of the most radical activists in Alabama, had had enough. “There had to be a stopping place,” she said, “and this seemed to be the place for me to stop being pushed around.” Parks refused to move from her seat on the bus, was arrested, and, with fierce activist Jo Ann Robinson, organized a one-day bus boycott. The protest, intended to last twenty-four hours, became a yearlong struggle for dignity and justice. It broke the back of the Montgomery city bus lines and bankrupted the company. We see how and why Rosa Parks, instead of becoming a leader of the movement she helped to start, was turned into a symbol of virtuous black womanhood, sainted and celebrated for her quiet dignity, prim demeanor, and middle-class propriety—her radicalism all but erased. And we see as well how thousands of black women whose courage and fortitude helped to transform America were reduced to the footnotes of history. A controversial, moving, and courageous book; narrative history at its best.
非裔美国女性的历史已经成为这个国家的精神生活的一个重要的话题在过去十五年;和达琳克拉克海恩一直是那些负责将受制于目前的重要性。”--from the Foreword by John Hope Franklin In this absolutely needed collection of essays by one of the leading American historians of our generation, the richly intertwined community-making and self-making that shaped the historical experience of African American women shines out like a beacon." --Susan M. Reverby, Luella LaMer Associate Professor for Women's Studies, Wellesley College