Slavery and public history: the tough stuff of American memory

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.

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.