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A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History

A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History

Paperback

Series: Suny Oral and Public History

General ReferenceHistoriography

ISBN10: 0791401332
ISBN13: 9780791401330
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: May 17 1990
Pages: 273
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. Memory, History, and Cultural Authority

Headnotes


1. Oral History and Hard Times: A Review Essay
2. The Memory of History
3. American History and the Structures of Collective Memory: A Modest Exercise in Empirical Iconography

II. Interpretive Authority in Oral History

Headnotes


4. Oral History and the Presentation of Class Consciousness: The New York Times v. The Buffalo Unemployed
5. Preparing Interview Transcripts for Documentary Publication: A Line-by-Line Illustration of the Editing Process
6. Presenting and Receiving Oral History across Cultural Space: A Note on Responses of Chinese Students to the Documentary Trilogy One Village in China
7. Oral History, Documentary, and the Mystification of Power: A Critique of Vietnam: A Television History

III. A Shared Authority: Scholarship, Audience, and Public Presentation

Headnotes


8. Quality in History Programs: From Celebration to Exploration of Values
9. Town Into City: A Reconsideration on the Occasion of Springfield's 350th Anniversary, 1636-1986
10. Get the Picutre? A Review Essay
11. Audience Expectations as Resource and Challenge: Ellis Island as a Case Study
12. Urban Public History in Celebratory Contexts: The Example of the Philadelphia's Moving Past Project
13. The Presentation of Urban History in Big City Museums

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