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Museums, Monuments, And National Parks: Toward A New Genealogy Of Public History, Theodore Karamanski
Museums, Monuments, And National Parks: Toward A New Genealogy Of Public History, Theodore Karamanski
Theodore J. Karamanski
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History, Memory, And Historic Districts In Chicago, Theodore J. Karamanski
History, Memory, And Historic Districts In Chicago, Theodore J. Karamanski
Theodore J. Karamanski
Across America, National Register Historic Districts have done a better job helping to preserve building stock and stabilize communities than they have of meeting the articulated goal of With a Heritage So Rich, the foundational 1966 study that gave birth to the National Register of Historic Places. According to that report, historic sites were to “give a sense of orientation to our society” and help to implant in people “values of time and place.” This article looks at the evolution of historic districts in Chicago, Illinois through the lens of public memory. It explores the relationship between “official” memory and …
Table Annexed To Article: The Capture Of The City Of Washington In Mr Text Format, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Table Annexed To Article: The Capture Of The City Of Washington In Mr Text Format, Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Peter J. Aschenbrenner
The first post-mortem on the fall of Washington, commissioned from a committee of the House of Representatives under the leadership of Richard M. Johnson of kentucky, appeared in the American State Papers, Military Affairs subdivision, as Doc. No. 137, at Pages 524-599. The work was published in Washington by Gales and Seaton with documents of Congressional provenance selected by the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House. The Capture is not merely an exemplar of public history, the actors who participate in the events they relate self-consciously vouch for their role as historians of the moment. “In …
Reflections On Implementing Innovative And Collaborative History From The Nation’S First National Historic Site, Margo Shea, Maryann Zujewski, Jonathan Parker
Reflections On Implementing Innovative And Collaborative History From The Nation’S First National Historic Site, Margo Shea, Maryann Zujewski, Jonathan Parker
Margo Shea
History, He Wrote: Murder, Politics, And The Challenges Of Public History In A Community With A Secret, Robert R. Weyeneth
History, He Wrote: Murder, Politics, And The Challenges Of Public History In A Community With A Secret, Robert R. Weyeneth
Robert R. Weyeneth
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Method And Memory In The Midwestern ‘Lincoln Inquiry’: Oral Testimony And Abraham Lincoln Studies, 1865-1938, Keith A. Erekson
Method And Memory In The Midwestern ‘Lincoln Inquiry’: Oral Testimony And Abraham Lincoln Studies, 1865-1938, Keith A. Erekson
Keith A Erekson
This article reviews the efforts from the 1880s through the 1930s to collect and examine oral histories with Abraham Lincoln's Indiana neighbors.