On Doing Local History (American Association for State and Local History Book Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0759102538 ISBN 13: 9780759102538

Verlag: AltaMira Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Completely revised and updated edition of the guide for local historians.

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Carol Kammen has written and lectured about local history for many years. She has taught local history at Tompkins Cortland Community College and is now a senior lecturer at Cornell University, where she gives a course on Cornell history. In addition she has written three books about the history of her county, including What they Wrote (1978) andThe Peopling of Tompkins County: A Social History (1985). The first edition ofOn Doing Local History (1986) was followed by Pursuit of Local History (1996) and theEncyclopedia of Local History (2000), which she co-edited with Norma Prendergast. In addition, she has written a dozen historical dramas that have been performed in Ithaca and regionally. Two,Escape to the North and The Day the Women Met, have been performed for 18,000 school children. For five years she wrote articles forNew York History about doing history in New York State, and since 1995 she has written the editorials forHistory News, the quarterly of the American Association for State and Local History. She is a graduate of The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and currently lives above Cayuga's waters with her husband, also a historian, and a feline companion, Carrie Chapman Catt.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: AltaMira Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0759102538
• ISBN 13: 9780759102538
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 210
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