Public History Readings
Public History Readings

Author: Phyllis K. Leffler

Publisher: Krieger Publishing Company

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13:

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The purpose of this title is to show how the model and method discussed in Public and Academic History may be put into practice. Through an anthology of readings with explanatory headnotes, the authors illustrate how a trained awareness of history as a discipline and a practiced focus on the processes of history provide the means for understanding the necessary and reciprocal relationships between "academic" and "public" history. Following each group of readings are applications or suggestions for projects which embody the sense of the readings.

A Living History Reader: Museums
A Living History Reader: Museums

Author: Jay Anderson

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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Living History Reader is the first collection of seminal articles about conducting living history. Written by museum interpreters and enthusiasts, the articles are thought-provoking, readable, and collectively present a cross-section of the best writing about historical simulation.

Finding a New Midwestern History
Finding a New Midwestern History

Author: Jon K. Lauck

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Published: 2018-11-01

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1496201825

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In comparison to such regions as the South, the far West, and New England, the Midwest and its culture have been neglected both by scholars and by the popular press. Historians as well as literary and art critics tend not to examine the Midwest in depth in their academic work. And in the popular imagination, the Midwest has never really ascended to the level of the proud, literary South; the cultured, democratic Northeast; or the hip, innovative West Coast. Finding a New Midwestern History revives and identifies anew the Midwest as a field of study by promoting a diversity of viewpoints and lending legitimacy to a more in-depth, rigorous scholarly assessment of a large region of the United States that has largely been overlooked by scholars. The essays discuss facets of midwestern life worth examining more deeply, including history, religion, geography, art, race, culture, and politics, and are written by well-known scholars in the field such as Michael Allen, Jon Butler, and Nicole Etcheson.