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Forgetting and the forgotten : a thousand years of contested histories in the heartland
Title
Forgetting and the forgotten : a thousand years of contested histories in the heartland / Michael C. Batinski.
ISBN
9780809338375
0809338378
9780809338382
Publication
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2021]
Physical Description
xvi, 248 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Summary
"This detailed yet comprehensive historiography charts the ways that local historians in Jackson County, Illinois, marginalized and silenced Native American, African American, and working-class experiences--especially the violence toward Indian and black actors--in favor of a history centered on white privilege and progress"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Batinski, Michael C., 1943- Forgetting and the forgotten Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2021]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 23, 2022
Series
Shawnee books
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-240) and index.
Contents
Dispossessing : land and past
Squaring the circles, filling the squares
Settlers and transients
Civil wars and silences
Gilding the past
Passersby, rich and penniless
Reconstruction and race.
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