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Hello from History and Theory: The May 2009 issue of History and Theory is the postponed (from December 2008) Theme Issue 47 on Historical Representation and Historical Truth, edited by Wulf Kansteiner and Christoph Classen. The issue explores the ways various non-standard modes of representing historical events (such as films, museum exhibits, novels, photographs, historical video games, and a non-standard history book) can succeed (or not) in revealing what these events were, and the ways these modes enrich the notion of historical truth. The Issue is particularly mind-opening in expanding the possibilities for doing history and for representing past events. It contains the following articles: CHRISTOPH CLASSEN and WULF KANSTEINER, Truth and Authenticity in Contemporary Historical Culture: An Introduction to Historical Representation and Historical Truth ANN RIGNEY, All This Happened, More or Less: What a Novelist Made of the Bombing of Dresden WULF KANSTEINER, Success, Truth, and Modernism in Holocaust Historiography: Reading Saul Friedländer Thirty-Five Years after the Publication of Metahistory JUDITH KEILBACH, Photographs, Symbolic Images, and the Holocaust: On the (Im)possibility of Depicting Historical Truth CHRISTOPH CLASSEN, Balanced Truth: Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List among History, Memory, and Popular Culture CLAUDIO FOGU, Digitalizing Historical Consciousness BETTINA M. CARBONELL, The Syntax of Objects and the Representation of History: Speaking of Slavery in New York Click here to read abstracts of the articles in this issue: http://www.historyandtheory.org/archives/may09.html To download a free copy of Classen’s and Kansteiner’s Introduction or of Fogu’s essay about what digitalization is doing to historical consciousness, please click here: http://www.historyandtheory.org/freearticle.html To subscribe to the journal (which you can do entirely over the web with your credit card via Blackwell's secure server), click here: http://www.historyandtheory.org/subscribe.html (As a subscriber you also get access to the electronic version of the journal). I welcome any comments you have about this Theme Issue or other topics that are germane to the journal. You can contact me at: bfay@wesleyan.edu Brian Fay Executive Editor P.S. I invite you to forward this message to your friends and colleagues, and have included a clickable link for them to join this list: http://www.historyandtheory.org/email.html
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