Why We Write

Jim Downs is in the Department of History at Columbia University. He is co-editor of Taking Back the Academy!History of Activism, History as Activism (Routledge 2004).

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• Introduction: When and Why We Enter JIM DOWNS Section I Why I Write: Personal Reflections Chapter 1. Why I Write JOHN D'EMILIO Chapter 2. Why I Write CATHERINE CLINTON Chapter 3. Why I Write TIMOTHY PATRICK MCCARTHY Chapter 4. Why I Write JENNIFER MORGAN Section II The Process of Writing Chapter 5. Disoriented in the Orient: A U.S. Historian Goes Transnational JUNG H. PAK Chapter 6. Narratives of Sexual Conquest: A Historical Perspective on Date Rape JENNIFER FRONC Chapter 7. Her Heart, My Hands: Writing an Intimate Life CAITLIN LOVE CROWELL Chapter 8. Writing for History: Journalism, History, and the Revival of Narrative JILL LEPORE Chapter 9. We Should Grow Too Fond of It' Why We Love the Civil War DREW GILPIN FAUST Section III The Politics of Writing Chapter 10. Our Silences Will Hurt Us: Journalistic Writing in a Women's Prison ELEANOR M. NOVEK AND REBECCA SANFORD Chapter 11. To Keep My Body Clean, To Breathe, To Give My Mind Rest SASHA KAMINI PARMASAD Chapter 12. Diary of a Mad Law Student JODI BROMBERG Chapter 13. A Drawbridge to the Ivory Tower: Brokering the Politics of Environmental Studies DANIEL J. SHERMAN Chapter 14. Why I Don't Write ERME C. MAULA Notes Contributors Index