On Doing Local History (American Association for State and Local History)

Since 1986 On Doing Local History has been an invaluable aid to local historians. Now Carol Kammen has completely updated and revised this classic to reflect more than fifteen years of experience working with local historians. She challenges all historians of the local to think about what they are doing and how they are doing it. She dispels the myth that amateur historians, who are frequent practitioners of local history, necessarily produce a history less rigorous or useful. For many years the author of a column in History News, Kammen's thoughtful, level-headed ideas and personable writing style will keep this book a classic for years to come.

History

Kammen, Carol

Americas

AltaMira Press

Since 1986 On Doing Local History has been an invaluable aid to local historians. Now Carol Kammen has completely updated and revised this classic to reflect more than fifteen years of experience working with local historians. She challenges all historians of the local to think about what they are doing and how they are doing it. She dispels the myth that amateur historians, who are frequent practitioners of local history, necessarily produce a history less rigorous or useful. For many years the author of a column in History News, Kammen's thoughtful, level-headed ideas and personable writing style will keep this book a classic for years to come.

On Doing Local History offers local historians a new way of thinking about their work: questioning the sources they use and the subjects they investigate. This book recognizes the special circumstances facing local historian who study, write, and display the history of the communities in which they live. It considers the tradition of local history and the legacy of that tradition, and it looks at how local history is practiced today in many places around the world. An ideal text for classes on local history.

On Doing Local History: Reflections on What Local Historians Do, Why and What It Means (American Association for State and Local History)

Historical Study & Educational Resources

On Doing Local History: Reflections on What Local Historians Do, Why, and What It Means

Amer Assn for State & Local

The Peopling of Tompkins County: A Social History

Heart of the Lakes Publishing

Lives Passed: Biographical Sketches from Central New York

North Country Books Inc

The steep hills and dramatic gorges of Ithaca were the setting for a revolution in American education when, in the 1860s, a self-made man sought "to do the most good... to the poor and to posterity." Ezra Cornell's philanthropy, enhanced with funds from the Morrill Land Grant Act and enlarged by the vision of educator Andrew Dickson White, created what has been called the first American university―'a modern, democratic, research-oriented institution open to young men and women of all creeds and races. Reflecting the ideas of its founders, Cornell University has combined the industrial science and technology of America with the humanism of Athens to serve both the individual and society.
In her concise, generously illustrated account of Cornell, Carol Kammen places that bold vision in its nineteenth-century context―a time when higher education was restricted to a privileged few. Now the university enters the twenty-first century as an institution of international stature and a leader in educational opportunity.
Kammen, a noted local historian and lecturer in history at Cornell, tells the story of this great university with verve. Highlighting the text are excerpts from important documents and images from archives in the Cornell Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, selected by Susette Newberry, a Cornell archivist specializing in photography and media studies. Together, words and images illustrate the growth of the university, the origins of its famous schools and colleges, and its enduring commitment to excellence in education.

Cornell: Glorious to View

LaFeber,Walter

Cornell University Library

From Foreward by Hunter R. Rawlings III President, Cornell University "In her new book, Cornell historian Carol Kammen captures the essence of the undergraduate experience at Cornell through 1st person accounts that span nearly 140 years of university history."

First - Person Cornell (Students diaries, letters, email, and blogs)

The Architectural Heritage of Tompkins County

Corth, Richard

Truame, Lynn Cunningham

Muratori, Fred

De Witt Historical Society

Lamentations&nbsp;is a novel about the first group of families crossing west to Oregon in 1842, from the perspective of the dozen women on the trip. Although none of these women left a written record of her journey, the company clerk's daily notations provided documentation of historical events. Based on these records and the author's own decades of work as a historian, Carol Kammen provides an interpretation of the women's thoughts and feelings as events played out in and around the wagons heading west. In this novel the men are in the background--and we hear the women ponder the land, their right to be passing through, their lives and how they are changing, the other people in the company, the Native Americans they encounter, and their changing roles.&nbsp;Lamentations is about women's reality as wives or unmarried sojourners, as literate or illiterate observers, and as explorers of the land.&nbsp; Kammen gives voice to these women as they consider a strange new land and the people who inhabit it, mulling over what they, as women of their time, could not say aloud. We see the mental and emotional impact of events such as the naming of peoples and lands, of a husband's suicide, of giving birth, and of ongoing and uncertain interactions with Native peoples from the Missouri River crossing all the way to Oregon. They face the difficulties of the road, the slow trust that builds between some of them, and the oddities of the men with whom they travel. These women move from silent witnesses within a constrained gender sphere to articulate observers of a complicated world they ultimately helped to shape.

Lamentations: A Novel of Women Walking West

Literature & Fiction

United States

Bison Books

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