| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 221 pages) |
| Contents |
Bench talk / Jim Downs and Jennifer Manion -- Teaching student activism / Eileen Eagan -- Debating Tlatelolco : thirty years of public debates about the Mexican student movement of 1968 / Vania Markarian -- Between Berlin and Berkeley, Frankfurt and San Francisco : the student movements of the 1960s in transatlantic perspective / Martin Klimke -- Unionizing for a more democratic and responsive university / Anita Seth -- What is a university? : anti-union campaigns in academia / Kimberly Phillips-Fein -- Where have all the politics gone? : a graduate student's reflections / John McMillian -- Glass tower : half full or half empty? / Nancy A. Hewitt -- Toxic torts : historians in the courtroom / David Rosner -- Most craven abdication of democratic principles : on the U.S. attack on Iraq / Glenda Gilmore -- Forging activist alliances : identity, identification, and position / Drucilla Cornell and Kitty Krupat -- Calling all liberals : connecting feminist theory, activism, and history / Jennifer Manion -- Producing for use and teaching the whole student : can pedagogy be a form of activism? / Kathleen M. Brown and Tracey M. Weis -- Teaching across the color line : a warning about identity politics in the classroom / Jim Downs -- 2.5 cheers for bridging the gap between activism and the academy ; or, stay and fight : to which is added an account of radical scholar-activist in the wake of the Iraq war / Jesse Lemisch |
| Summary |
A history of activism on campus since the 1960s and an exploration of the ways in which the historian's craft leads to social change |
| Notes |
Papers derived from a conference held at Columbia University in New York, N.Y. in 2002 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Historians -- Political activity -- United States -- Congresses
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Learning and scholarship -- Political aspects -- United States -- Congresses
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Student movements -- United States -- Congresses
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Social movements -- United States -- Congresses
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Political activists -- United States -- Congresses
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Historians -- Political activity -- Congresses
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Learning and scholarship -- Political aspects -- Congresses
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Student movements -- Congresses
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Social movements -- Congresses
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Political activists -- Congresses
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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Historians -- Political activity
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Learning and scholarship -- Political aspects
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Political activists
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Social movements
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Student movements
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Downs, Jim, 1973-
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Manion, Jen, 1974-
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| ISBN |
0203339584 |
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9780203339589 |
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