Taking back the academy! : history of activism, history as activism / edited by Jim Downs & Jennifer Manion.

Papers derived from a conference held at Columbia University in New York, N.Y. in 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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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.

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