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Working Toward A "Shared Authority" In The Discipline And Content Of Public Hlstory: A Case Study, Ruth E. Bryan Jan 1999

Working Toward A "Shared Authority" In The Discipline And Content Of Public Hlstory: A Case Study, Ruth E. Bryan

Ruth E. Bryan

This paper explores the meaning of “public history” using Michael Frisch’s concept of a “shared authority” (A Shared Authority, 1990) through a case study of the reviews of two edited and published oral histories, Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr (ed. Hollinger F. Barnard, 1985) and All is Never Said: The Narrative of Odette Harper Hines (ed. Judith Rollins, 1995). The result is that although history can be produced by historians with the public and about the public, public history cannot be truly an authoritative history (making explicit connections between facts, narrative, and the purpose of …


The Madness Of Writing: Lady Caroline Lamb's Byronic Identity, Paul Douglass Jan 1999

The Madness Of Writing: Lady Caroline Lamb's Byronic Identity, Paul Douglass

Paul Douglass

No abstract provided.


Annual 1999 Academic Affairs Forum: Access To A Quality Education, Ellen N. Junn Jan 1999

Annual 1999 Academic Affairs Forum: Access To A Quality Education, Ellen N. Junn

Ellen N. Junn

No abstract provided.


Reasonable And Other Doubts: The Problem Of Jury Instructions, Robert C. Power Dec 1998

Reasonable And Other Doubts: The Problem Of Jury Instructions, Robert C. Power

Robert C Power

No abstract provided.