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"Slavery has a greater presence in American life now than at any time since the Civil War ended," declares Ira Berlin in his presidential address to the Organization of American Historians. Berlin traces the growing attention to slavery in American popular culture and politics. But encounters between historical analysis and charged popular memories of the past have not always gone smoothly. Berlin explores the tensions between memory and history and argues that scholarship on slavery must test memory against history's truths and infuse history with memory's passion.

  
For much of the past century, Americans have taken the concept of addiction for granted. . . .
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