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American Controversies Series
Series Editor: Douglas R. Egerton, Le Moyne College
Students love debate. They love contention, which they see all about them
in modern society. Yet too many monographs or biographies erase the
controversies that existed in earlier decades. Slavery and institutionalized
sexism, for example, strike modern readers as being so clearly wrong that they
cannot understand why rational Americans endorsed slavery or thought it
foolish to enfranchise women. How could a politician as brilliant as Thomas
Jefferson believe that forced assimilation was the best policy for Native
Americans? Why did Americans allow Hitler to become so powerful before
confronting him? Why were many of the so-called Greatest Generation
indifferent to social justice at home? How did the Vietnam War become
such a political and cultural powder keg? Hindsight is often the enemy of
understanding, and what strikes us as obvious was often anything but simple
to earlier generations.
This series deals with major controversies in American history. The
events depicted in this series were either controversial at the time (such as
militant abolitionism) or have sparked modern historiographical controver-
sies. (Did slave conspiracies actually exist, for example? Why did witch trials
in Salem spiral out of control in 1692?) Each volume in the series begins with
an extensive essay that explains the topic, discusses the relevant historiogra-
phy, and summarizes the various points of view (contemporaneous as well as
modern). The second half of the volume is devoted to documents, but each
is annotated and preceded by a brief introduction. By contextualizing each
document, this series pulls back the curtain, so to speak, on the process of
writing history, even as the essays, letters, laws, and newspaper accounts that
follow allow important American actors to speak in their own voices. Most
of all, by examining both sides in these debates, and by providing documents
that see each issue from different angles, the American Controversies Series
will bring history alive—and enliven history classrooms.
Volumes Published
Slavery and Sectional Strife in the Early American Republic, 1776–1821
Gary J. Kornblith
Antebellum Women: Private, Public, Partisan
Carol Lasser and Stacey Robertson
Witchcraft in Early North America
Alison Games
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