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Silencing the Past

Michel Rolph Trouillot

How do power and silence decide which stories become history, and whose past gets told or forgotten?

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Author
Michel Rolph Trouillot

Why read it

  • You will learn to tell apart history as what happened and history as what is said to have happened
  • You will notice how a defeat can be retold as a turn in the plot, as Houston's men did with the Alamo
  • You will understand how an event as large as the Haitian Revolution could be treated as a nonevent by historians

Who it is for

  • Readers of history who ask who decides what gets remembered
  • Teachers wanting a fresh way to talk about sources
  • Anyone curious about the Haitian Revolution and the Columbus legend

Contents

  1. Preface
  2. 1. The Power in the Story
  3. 2. The Three Faces of Sans Souci
  4. 3. An Unthinkable History
  5. 4. Good Day, Columbus
  6. 5. The Presence in the Past
  7. Epilogue

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