Preface: History, Race, Nation
1. The Nation- State as the Telos of History: Nuremberg, 1946
2. The Limits of Forgiveness: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 1996
3. Calling History to Account: The Movement for Reparations for Slavery in the United States
Epilogue: Revisioning History
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Joan Wallach Scott is professor emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. Her Columbia University Press books include Gender and the Politics of History, thirtieth anniversary edition (2018), and Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom (2019).