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Nearby History : Exploring the Past Around You

ISBN: 9780759113008 | 0759113009
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
Pub. Date: 9/1/2010

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
A comprehensive handbook for those interested in investigating the history of communities, families, local institutions, and cultural artifacts, Nearby History helps its readers research the world near at hand. In this fully updated third edition, the authors discuss a variety of research approaches involving published literature, unpublished documents, oral histories, visual and material sources, and landscapes; offer guidance in the uses of technology, particularly digital photography and digital voice recording; and suggest methods of histor... MORE
Preface to the Third Editionp. vii
Acknowledgmentsp. xiii
Why Nearby History?p. 1
What Can Be Done Nearby?p. 17
Traces and Storytellingp. 45
Published Documentsp. 61
Unpublished Documentsp. 91
Oral Documentsp. 113
Visual Documentsp. 133
Artifactsp. 159
Landscapes and Buildin... MOREp. 177
Preserving Material Tracesp. 193
Research, Writing, and Leaving a Recordp. 211
Linking the Particular and the Universalp. 227
Appendices
Forms to Request Information from Federal Agenciesp. 259
Sample Gift Agreementsp. 263
Sources of Archival Storage Products and Informationp. 267
Using the World Wide Web (WWW) in Nearby Historyp. 269
Indexp. 273
About the Authorsp. 283
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David E. Kyvig is distinguished research professor in the history department at Northern Illionis University in DeKalb, Illinois. Myron A. Marty is Ann G. and Sigurd E. Anderson University Professor Emeritus and dean of arts and sciences emeritus at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.


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