In 1985, his book The Good War: An Oral History of World War II won a Pulitzer. In 1997, President Clinton awarded Terkel the National Humanities Medal for “deep[ening] the nation's understanding of the humanities and broadened our ...
Barthel, Diane. Historic Preservation: Collective Memory andHistorical Identity, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1996. Battle, Mary. “African American History Tours and Gentrification in Charleston, South Carolina.
In the United States, editors usually mention the edition of Thomas Jefferson's papers – that began in 1943 – as the birth of modern editing though. In 1950, impressed by the edition of Jefferson's papers, U.S. President Harry Truman ...
On advice and consent of the US Senate, Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed R.D.W. Connor of North Carolina as the first archivist of the United States. (He had been the state archivist for North Carolina and a professor of history at the ...
45 Tracy E. K'Meyer, “An Interview with Samuel Hand: 'Reel Life: The Early Years of the OHA/OHR'” Oral History Review 26, no. 2 (Summer–Fall 1999): 112. 46 Polsky, “An Interview with Elizabeth Mason,” 172.
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The project sought to provide a mechanism to enable a public contribution to the historical record and to record multiple ... and their high number, something that traditional oral history mechanisms would not have been able to achieve.
... History in the Courtroom: Notes on an Experience as an Expert Witness in a Trial for Crimes Against Humanity in ... Policy and Public Purpose: Historians and Historical Thinking in Government, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Green ...
The practice of public history takes many forms and accommodates varied perspectives and interests, but the goal remains constant-to broaden the public's appreciation and understanding of the past. The twenty-six...