In Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities, Andrew Hurley argues for a more inclusive and post-modern approach to historic preservation and revitalization. He lauds previous efforts and movements of historic preservation, but observes that often the effort simply froze the building or district to a time that is both foreign and disconnected to the current population. Additionally, further disconnection and harmony can occur when commercial benefit is a large motivator
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History has always been one of my favorite subjects. I started middle school in August of 2016, which is when I first met my new history teacher. He was funny, smart, and most importantly, he said he was never going to make us read textbooks. But, after a while, most of us grew to despise him and dread that class everyday, celebrating the days we didn’t have it. Thanks to him, I have never trusted my first impressions of teachers, students, or anyone. The first thing he ever said to our class was
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will review Peter Boag’s Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past (2011). This book highlights the missing histories of cross-dressers all across the American frontier, and gives readers a look into the lives of such individuals and how they were regarded and treated in society. Consequently, this paper will discuss the geographic and chronological scope of the book, and analyze the extent of the history of cross dressing practices and how they challenged heteronormative culture and myths about the Western
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field of archaeology had very crude beginnings with antiquarians - rich people cavorting around the world searching for artifacts they deemed as valuable, while usually destroying other important artifacts. There was no interest in the context or history of the people, the only concern was finding objects of value. In the mid-nineteenth century the approach to archaeology began to shift towards the development and study of chronologies, igniting what is known as the Classifactory-Historical period
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The political science literature of conspiracy theories remains decades old and robust. Beginning with Hofstadter (1964), researchers began to investigate the “paranoid style” of American politics while in the midst of the Cold War and McCarthyism. Although these early investigations helped to build a solid foundation of literature on conspiracism, the focus of this review remains to highlight and synthesize the most recent literature, which will in turn help to address the complex question of this
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Lin Manuel-Miranda: A Progressive Voice for History History is frequently the bane of many students’ academic careers. To some, history is arid, nothing more than the tedious repetition of events long passed. The somniferous lectures and dense readings found in the history classroom further serve to perpetuate the myopic perception of history as stale and purposeless. Through the medium of the stage, Lin-Manuel Miranda challenges this attitude with an impeccable tone of drama, introspection
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A People’s History of The United States, by Howard Zinn, delivers a multi perspective account on how the United States came to be from the beginning to the present time. This book is able to further people’s knowledge by developing a historical story line incorporated with written pieces from past generations and Zinn’s own ideas and knowledge. Howard Zinn was a very educated man, author of multiple books, a war veteran, professor, and activist. Before going to college, he joined the US Air Force
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after all think Don Draper techniques as possible to be lying on the table, and perhaps impossible. When was still married to Betty Draper. At the beginning of 21st century American historian could learn such an artifact? forward to the new political history of illusion, why should anyone bother to renew old? In a book written in old age we can learn important things Draper Revolution? Well, of course, the answer is yes. In contemporary American educational institutions, Hobsbawm is probably the best
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Interview Analysis of Veterans History Project The Veterans History Project collects first-hand accounts from veterans and civilians that played significant roles during wars. The Project provides an ample collection of letters, postcards, diaries, photographs, scrapbooks, memoirs and audio or videotaped interviews of all the wars from World War I until the Iraq war. One of the Oral history video-taped interviews was ofMedaBrendall, a 93-year-old woman that worked in a shipyard during World War II
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The Tantaquidgeon Indian Museum is the oldest Indian-owned and operated museum in America. The museum was built in 1931 and located in Uncasville, Connecticut. This museum is owned and ran by the federally recognized Mohegan Tribe, making this museum a privately owned governance. The museum’s first building was built by the owners Gladys Tantaquidgeon and her brother Harold and father John. The museum began with a little stone room including collections of various artifacts that were made and used
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