Philosophy

Stunningly brilliant, standard-setting for scholarship in the field, Henry Greenspan’s 2010 version of On Listening to Holocaust Survivors transcends the path-breaking first edition by putting into bold relief the insights that emerge from his more than thirty years of intensive collaboration with Holocaust survivors. By emphasizing the importance of ongoing conversation, rather than one-time testimony, Greenspan challenges conventional wisdom and wisely transforms the process of discerning and responding to what survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides have to say." —John K. Roth, Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, and Founding Director, Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, Claremont McKenna College

"This book should be mandatory reading for every oral historian. It is the premier example of sharing authority in the interview--a radical break from the approach of most 'testimony' projects.”—Professor Steven High, Canada Research Chair in Public History, Concordia University

“Greenspan uncovers the internal tensions that have driven the survivors' searches for their own meaning in their posttraumatic world. All levels.”– Choice

Drawing on a wide array of sources to document cultural influences from Africa, the author vividly describes the emergence of an independent church tradition among African Americans.  L. H. Whelchel demonstrates the struggles of Africans in the United States to build and maintain their own churches before showing how those churches and their ministers were often at the center of seminal events in the history of America.  Dr. Whelchel provides an engaging and provocative narrative, and with detailed documentation and end notes for each chapter along with critical analyses which will be of benefit to ministers, scholars, teachers, students and the general reading public.