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Of Wholes And Parts: Local History And The American Experience, Terry A. Barnhart
Of Wholes And Parts: Local History And The American Experience, Terry A. Barnhart
Localités/Localities
The relationships between the wholes and parts of American history are vital to our understanding of ourselves as a nation and a people. Many of the central paradoxes and ambiguities of our national existence cannot be adequately understood without exploring the interplay between localism and nationalism that runs like a lietmotiv throughout American history. The influence of the westward movement in our nation’s past, the give and take of federal-state relations, the internecine sectionalism of the nineteenth century, and the more benign regionalism of the twentieth century raise important questions about the relationship between local history and national heritage, and …
National History In The Local Landscape: Industrial Revolution In Sutton, Massachusetts, Nora Pat Small
National History In The Local Landscape: Industrial Revolution In Sutton, Massachusetts, Nora Pat Small
Localités/Localities
Sutton, Massachusetts, in the Blackstone River Valley of southeastern Massachusetts, celebrated the nation’s centennial with the publication of one of the best local histories of the period. When the Reverends Mr. Benedict and Mr. Tracy looked back over the 172 year history of their community, they found much to celebrate, but also more than a little to bemoan.
Locations Of Black Identity: Community Canning Centers In Texas, 1915-1935, Debra Ann Reid
Locations Of Black Identity: Community Canning Centers In Texas, 1915-1935, Debra Ann Reid
Localités/Localities
In 1915, African Americans in rural Texas observed communities in transition when they looked out the doors of their wood-frame houses. In that year approximately 72 percent of all blacks in the state, or 511,321 individuals, lived in rural areas. During the 1920s low commodity prices and high inflation combined to ruin many, but few left the land. Instead they rented land on the shares and struggled to earn enough of a living to keep families together. Yet the Great Depression intensified the poverty and forced many blacks to leave rural life behind. In addition, the violence and disfranchisement of …
A Chronicle Of The Coles County (Illinois) Region, Mark Voss-Hubbard, Newton E. Key
A Chronicle Of The Coles County (Illinois) Region, Mark Voss-Hubbard, Newton E. Key
Localités/Localities
This chronology of Coles County, IL., was compiled by Mark Voss-Hubbard and Newton E. Key.
Localités And Early Modern Britain, Newton E. Key
Localités And Early Modern Britain, Newton E. Key
Newton Key
In early modem England local identity often was more important than national identity, and "country" as often meant one's native shire as one's nation state.
Introduction: Localités And Nationalism As The Vestigial And The Lncipient?, Newton E. Key
Introduction: Localités And Nationalism As The Vestigial And The Lncipient?, Newton E. Key
Newton Key
The professionalization of history was tightly bound to nationalism. Historians in early modern Europe distinguished between story and inventory: chronology and chorography. The latter was the domain of the local antiquarian and county historian. Even as local history professionalized and cut its antiquarian/chorographical roots, the profession still marginalized it, and local history was mainly published by antiquarian or local societies. Even those who carved out a field distinct from national history, such as the German genre of Landesgeschicte (regional or provincial history), were considered subordinate if not actually suspect endeavors by the profession. Recently, however, European historians have embraced the …
Introduction: Localités And Nationalism As The Vestigial And The Lncipient?, Newton Key
Introduction: Localités And Nationalism As The Vestigial And The Lncipient?, Newton Key
Faculty Research & Creative Activity
The professionalization of history was tightly bound to nationalism. Historians in early modern Europe distinguished between story and inventory: chronology and chorography. The latter was the domain of the local antiquarian and county historian. Even as local history professionalized and cut its antiquarian/chorographical roots, the profession still marginalized it, and local history was mainly published by antiquarian or local societies. Even those who carved out a field distinct from national history, such as the German genre of Landesgeschicte (regional or provincial history), were considered subordinate if not actually suspect endeavors by the profession. Recently, however, European historians have embraced the …
Introduction: Localités And Nationalism As The Vestigial And The Lncipient?, Newton E. Key
Introduction: Localités And Nationalism As The Vestigial And The Lncipient?, Newton E. Key
Faculty Research & Creative Activity
The professionalization of history was tightly bound to nationalism. Historians in early modern Europe distinguished between story and inventory: chronology and chorography. The latter was the domain of the local antiquarian and county historian.3 Nineteenth-century historians sought to validate their narratives as the story of something important, the growth of the nation-state. The earliest professional journals and organizations-The English Historical Review (first published in 1886), the American Historical Association (founded in 1884 and incorporated by Congress in 1889)-were national. Even as local history professionalized and cut its antiquarian/chorographical roots, the profession still marginalized it, and local history was mainly published …