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"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, these "conversations" demonstrate how historians speak to one another about contentious topics and can contribute in meaningful ways to the public's understanding. This volume focuses on the historical context of the January 6th invasion of the U.S. Capitol. In the free-flowing conversation, the participants also discussed if - and if so, how - historians should engage in public debates"--
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Jim Downs (Author, Editor) 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) STEPHANIE MCCURRY is professor of history at Columbia University. She is the author of three prize winning books, including
Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War and
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South.
Joanne B. Freeman (Author) JOANNE B. FREEMAN is professor of history at Yale University. She is the author of
Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic and the editor of
Alexander Hamilton: Writings. Elizabeth Hinton (Author) ELIZABETH HINTON is associate professor of history and African American studies at Yale University. She is the author of
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s and
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America. Jill Lepore (Author) JILL LEPORE is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at
The New Yorker. Her many books include
These Truths: A History of the United States,
The Secret History of Wonder Woman, and
Book of Ages.
William Sturkey (Author) WILLIAM STURKEY is an associate professor of history at the the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of
Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White and
To Write in the Light of Freedom: The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools. Julian E. Zelizer (Author) JULIAN ZELIZER is professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the award-winning author and editor of many books, including
Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, The Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party and
The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society.
Zusammenfassung
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.
