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The Public Life of History

How History Mattered: Sodomy Law and Marriage Reform in the United States

George Chauncey
In the United States, competing claims about the history of sexuality and marriage have recently played a surprisingly large role in the ferocious public debates over gay rights and gay marriage and i

Narrating the Neoliberal Moment: History, Journalism, Historicity

Claudio Lomnitz

Of Tiger’s Leaps and Lullabies, and Historical Excess

Predicaments of Secular Histories

Neeladri Bhattacharya
The professional history writing that developed in India in the early decades after independence was powerfully shaped by the intellectual culture of the time.

In the Age of Testimony: The Stolen Generations Narrative, "Distance," and Public History

Bain Attwood
In the last few decades the nature of history making, especially that regarding the contemporary era, has been transformed, changing not only the pasts that are being related but the way in which many

Making History Public: Indigenous Claims to Settler States

Miranda Johnson
In the past four decades, history has become a matter of fierce public debate in the three settler states of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

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