Description: As an installment of UGA Press's History in the Headlines series, this book offers a rich discussion between highly respected scholars on the historical backdrop and context for contemporary issues from the headlines. This volume focuses on the historical context of the January 6 attack and employs a free-flowing conversation style.
Brief description: STEPHANIE MCCURRY is professor of history at Columbia University. She is the author of three prize winning books, including Women's War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War and Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South.
Review Quotes: I want to applaud the organizers of the forum, including Jim Downs and Catherine Clinton, for hosting such a humane and lively conversation on a topic that wrenches the heart of every informed citizen. This important book makes plain that January 6 was a singular and portentous event whose implications we ignore at our peril.--Elizabeth Cobbs "author of Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé"