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Beginning Anew: Archives Education At University Of Massachusetts Boston, 2010-2014, Darwin H. Stapleton
Beginning Anew: Archives Education At University Of Massachusetts Boston, 2010-2014, Darwin H. Stapleton
History Faculty Publication Series
This essay discusses the creation of an M.A. Archives Track for the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2010-2014. After laying out the process of creating the Track, and developing its curriculum, the essay discusses the relationship between the history and archives professions. Drawing on student feedback, the essay concludes with an evaluation of history-based archival education in an era when archival education has been increasingly based in library science programs.
Doing History With Online Mapping Tools: Handout, Joanne M. Riley
Doing History With Online Mapping Tools: Handout, Joanne M. Riley
Joseph P. Healey Library Publications
Handout listing resources and links that accompanied Riley's presentation "Doing History with Online Mapping Tools: an Introduction"
Doing History With Online Mapping Tools: An Introduction, Joanne M. Riley
Doing History With Online Mapping Tools: An Introduction, Joanne M. Riley
Joseph P. Healey Library Publications
In November, 2014 the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Mass., offered a presentation titled "How to Do History with Online Mapping Tools" as part of a series related to the Museum and Library’s collection of historic maps sponsored by the Ruby W. and LaVon P. Linn Foundation. The invited presenters were Jessie Partridge from the MetroBoston DataCommon, a provider of free applications that make it possible to map data, and Joanne Riley, University Archivist and Curator of Special Collections in the Healey Library at UMass Boston. Both presenters helped lay historians, data fans, and map enthusiasts discover how visualizations of …
Oliver Optic 1822-1897, Children's Author, Dale H. Freeman
Oliver Optic 1822-1897, Children's Author, Dale H. Freeman
Joseph P. Healey Library Publications
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Preservation Of The Records Of The Massachusetts Bay Company, Dale H. Freeman
Preservation Of The Records Of The Massachusetts Bay Company, Dale H. Freeman
Joseph P. Healey Library Publications
A paper that dually examines the painstaking work done by Boston Historian Nathaniel Shurtleff in 1853, to preserve the records of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; and the methods of record keeping within the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 and after.
Was Carcinus I A Tragic Playwright?, Kenneth S. Rothwell Jr.
Was Carcinus I A Tragic Playwright?, Kenneth S. Rothwell Jr.
Classics Faculty Publication Series
If Carcinus I was a tragic poet, why would a scholiast attribute to him a play with the title "Mice"?
Euripides And The Decline Of Character: A Soap Opera Connection, Emily A. Mcdermott
Euripides And The Decline Of Character: A Soap Opera Connection, Emily A. Mcdermott
Classics Faculty Publication Series
To the Greeks of the fifth century, the heroes and heroines of myth, the villains and villainesses--even the sorcerers and monsters--were figures from history, or at least historical legend. Surely the sophisticated Athenian of the fifth century did not believe in a literal interpretation of Scylla and Charybdis any more than we do, nor that Odysseus actually underwent every single setback and adventure retailed in the Odyssey. But, just as surely, he believed that there had been an Odysseus, just as implicitly as we believe in George Washington or Richard the Lion-Hearted. Unlike us, however, he also had an intimate …