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Abstract

I can’t quite remember when I first fell in love with history. It was certainly before I became “credentialed” as a historian, but also before I became fully conscious of my competing—and often conflicting—responsibilities as a scholar and writer, teacher and troublemaker. I suppose one origin of such things dates back to when I first learned to listen to other people’s stories.

Citation

McCarthy, Timothy Patrick. "On Living History And Stories Unfinished." Reckoning with History: Unfinished Stories of American Freedom. Ed. Jim Downs, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, T. K. Hunter, and Timothy Patrick McCarthy. Columbia University Press, 2021.