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Full-Text Articles in History
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
No abstract provided.
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 …
Mourning A People's Historian: Michael Mizell-Nelson, Mary Niall Mitchell
Mourning A People's Historian: Michael Mizell-Nelson, Mary Niall Mitchell
Mary Niall Mitchell
No abstract provided.
Fighting Over The Founders: How We Remember The American Revolution, Andrew Schocket
Fighting Over The Founders: How We Remember The American Revolution, Andrew Schocket
Andrew M Schocket
The American Revolution is all around us. It is pictured as big as billboards and as small as postage stamps, evoked in political campaigns and car advertising campaigns, relived in museums and revised in computer games. As the nation’s founding moment, the American Revolution serves as a source of powerful founding myths, and remains the most accessible and most contested event in U.S. history: more than any other, it stands as a proxy for how Americans perceive the nation’s aspirations. Americans’ increased fascination with the Revolution over the past two decades represents more than interest in the past. It’s also …
The Capture Of The City Of Washington In Mr Text Format, Peter Aschenbrenner
The Capture Of The City Of Washington In Mr Text Format, Peter 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 …
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
No abstract provided.
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.