Review Essay: Where Is “Dark Public History”? A Scholarly Turn to the Dark Side, and What It Means for Public Historians

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Book Review| August 01 2016 Review Essay: Where Is “Dark Public History”? A Scholarly Turn to the Dark Side, and What It Means for Public Historians Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture edited by Eric Gary Anderson, Taylor Hagood, and Daniel Cross Turner. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2015. v + 308 pp.; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index; clothbound, $42.50.Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era by Tiya Miles. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xi + 154 pp.; illustrations, notes, index; clothbound, $24.95; eBook, $13.99.Dark Tourism and Place Identity: Managing and Interpreting Dark Places edited by Leanne White and Elspeth Frew. London: Routledge, 2013. ix + 296 pp.; figures, notes, bibliography, index; clothbound, $145.00; paperback, $52.00. Jessica Moody Jessica Moody Jessica Moody is a lecturer in modern history and heritage at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She has research interests in the memory of transatlantic slavery and the public representation of difficult histories. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2016) 38 (3): 109–114. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2016.38.3.109 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jessica Moody; Review Essay: Where Is “Dark Public History”? A Scholarly Turn to the Dark Side, and What It Means for Public Historians. The Public Historian 1 August 2016; 38 (3): 109–114. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2016.38.3.109 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2016 by The Regents of the University of California and the National Council on Public History2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.