Nearby History Exploring the Past Around You

by Kyvig, David E.; Marty, Myron A.

• ISBN13: 9780759112490
• ISBN10: 0759112495
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-16
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Acclaimed for nearly thirty years as the most comprehensive introduction to research in North American family and community history and updated to reflect the most recent techniques and call attention to the best published examples of work in the field, this book is a must read for aspiring and practicing public and local historians.

Author Biography

David E. Kyvig is distinguished research professor in the history department at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois. Myron A. Marty is Ann G. and Sigurd E. Anderson University Professor Emeritus and dean of arts and sciences emeritus at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Why Nearby History?	p. 1
What Can Be Done Nearby?	p. 17
Traces and Storytelling	p. 45
Published Documents	p. 61
Unpublished Documents	p. 91
Oral Documents	p. 113
Visual Documents	p. 133
Artifacts	p. 159
Landscapes and Buildings	p. 177
Preserving Material Traces	p. 193
Research, Writing, and Leaving a Record	p. 211
Linking the Particular and the Universal	p. 227
Appendices
Forms to Request Information from Federal Agencies	p. 259
Sample Gift Agreements	p. 263
Sources of Archival Storage Products and Information	p. 267
Using the World Wide Web (WWW) in Nearby History	p. 269
Index	p. 273
About the Authors	p. 283
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