Forgetting and the Forgotten

WINNER, 2023 Illinois State Historical Society Superior Achievement Award in “Books, Scholarly”! Revealing the forgotten in community histories Histories try to forget, as this evocative study of one community reveals. Forgetting and the Forgotten details the nature of how a community forged its story against outsiders. Historian Michael C. Batinski explores the habits of forgetting that enable communities to create an identity based on silencing competing narratives. The white settlers of Jacks