The April issue of Historically Speaking is up on Project Muse. Access is available by individual purchase or through college and university libraries. This issue includes interviews with Donald Worster, David Hackett Fischer, and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich; a review essay; two assessments of civil rights history; and a variety of articles.
Historically Speaking, Volume 10, Number 2, April 2009
Table of Contents
Massacre in Munich: The Olympic Terror Attacks of 1972 in Historical Perspective
David Clay Large
We Have Seen the Enemy and It Is Not David McCullough
Edward Gray
The Importance of Studying Ordinary Lives: An Interview with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Conducted by Randall J. Stephens
Why Dryasdust? Historians in Fiction
Beverley Southgate
The Ends of the Earth and the “Heroic Age” of Polar Exploration: A Review Essay
Katrin Schultheiss
Champlain’s Dream: An Interview with David Hackett Fischer
Conducted by Donald A. Yerxa
Fighting Bad History with Good, or, Why Historians Must Get on the Web Now
Marshall Poe
Adieu to Lebanon
Fred S. Naiden and Kenneth W. Harl
JOHN MUIR'S PASSION
John Muir and the Religion of Nature
Donald Worster
John Muir’s Passion for Nature: An Interview with Donald Worster
Conducted by Donald A. Yerxa
CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORIOGRAPHY: TWO PERSPECTIVES
Reconsidering the “Long Civil Rights Movement”
Eric Arnesen
The Lost Decade of Civil Rights
David L. Chappell
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