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Recent history--the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a modern audience, and in the last several years interest in recent topics has grown exponentially. With subjects as diverse as Walmart and disco, and p...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Potter, Claire Bond, 1958- (Editor), Romano, Renee Christine (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2012.
Series:Since 1970.
Subjects:
1900 - 2099
Historiography > United States > Sources.
Historiography > Methodology.
Historiography > Technological innovations.
History, Modern > Historiography > Methodology.
Histoire moderne et contemporaine > Historiographie > Méthodologie.
Historiographie > États-Unis > Sources.
Historiographie > Méthodologie.
Historiographie > Innovations.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > Modern > 21st Century.
Historiography
Historiography > Methodology
United States > History > 20th century > Historiography > Methodology.
United States > History > 21st century > Historiography > Methodology.
États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle > Historiographie > Méthodologie.
États-Unis > Histoire > 21e siècle > Historiographie > Méthodologie.
United States
History
Sources
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Just over our shoulder : the pleasures and perils of writing the recent past / Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter
  • pt. 1. Framing the issues
  • Not dead yet : my identity crisis as a historian of the recent past / Renee C. Romano
  • Working without a script : reflections on teaching recent American history / Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
  • pt. 2. Access to the archives
  • Opening archives on the recent American past : reconciling the ethics of access and the ethics of privacy / Laura Clark Brown and Nancy Kaiser
  • Who owns your archive? : historians and the challenge of intellectual property law / Gail Drakes
  • pt. 3. Working with living subjects
  • The Berkeley compromise : oral history, human subjects, and the meaning of "research" / Martin Meeker
  • The presence of the past : iconic moments and the politics of interviewing in Birmingham / Willoughby Anderson
  • When radical feminism talks back : taking an ethnographic turn in the living past / Claire Bond Potter
  • pt. 4. Technology and the practice of recent history
  • Do historians watch enough TV? : broadcast news as a primary source / David Greenberg
  • Playing the past : the video game simulation as recent American history / Jeremy K. Saucier
  • Eternal flames : the translingual imperative in the study of World War II memories / Alice Yang and Alan S. Christy
  • pt. 5. Crafting narratives
  • When the present disrupts the past : narrating home care / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein
  • "Cult" knowledge : the challenges of studying new religious movements in America / Julius H. Bailey.

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