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

By (author) Michael Frisch

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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 Notes

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Publisher | State University of New York Press
Published date | 17 May 1990
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 273
Dimensions | 0 x 0 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 426g
ISBN | 978-0-7914-0133-0
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BISAC | history / social history


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