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Don McNeil. The Why of Local History.
Don McNeil. The Why of Local History. The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Summer, 1955), pp. 245-247. Back | Original Document The earliest reading in the list asks straight up about the value in local history. McNeil warns of the problem in local history, where a host of different projects become ends…
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Carol Kammen. On Doing Local History: In Memoriam: Quite a Decade (Prelude and Postscript).
History News, Vol. 66, No. 4 (Autumn 2011), pp. 3-4. Back | Original Document In film and television the portrayal of community histories of New York looms very large in our hip-hop early 21st century consciousness. It is a fascinating place because it is at once a global city and a city of a thousand…
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Carol Kammen. On Doing Local History in New York.
The Public Historian, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Summer 2011), pp. 58-69. Back | Original Document We think of New York as a global city, and that is an historical truism well-established, but it is equally true that the world city has been a notable place for the local history tradition. Enshrined in legislation, as far…
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Bruce Sinclair. Local History and National Culture: Notions on Engineering Professionalism in America.
Technology and Culture, Vol. 27, No. 4, Special Issue: Engineering in the Twentieth Century (Oct., 1986), pp. 683-693. Back | Original Document Engineering is as a technical a field as you could get, and not a discipline that one normally associates with public-orientated local history. Nevertheless, such a perception is misleading. In recent years Engineering…
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Local History and Value
Local Hisotry Value An Annotated Bibliography The…