Rescued from Oblivion : Historical Cultures in the Early United States /
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2020]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Series
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One. "The Lumber Yard of History"
- The Organization, Progress, Successes, and Failures of Historical Societies
- Chapter Two. "So Divided and Subdivided"
- Preserving Local Histories and Government Records
- Chapter Three. "Providing Materials for History"
- Historical Collection Priorities
- Chapter Four. "Disjointed Fragments"
- Materials as History Versus Materials for History
- Chapter Five. "Less Repulsive to the General Reader."
- Popular History and Historical Societies
- Chapter Six. "An Oblivious Society"
- Inclusion, Exclusion, and Omission in Historical Collections
- Conclusion
- Appendix One
- Historical and Related Societies Established in the United States, 1791-1850
- Appendix Two
- Mediating the Connecticut Historical Society Visitor Logs
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover