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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books History Sources |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: On privacy, copyright, video games, institutional review boards, activist scholarship, and history that talks back. Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2012 (DLC) 2011044423 |
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Renee Christine Romano; Claire Bond Potter |
| ISBN: | 9780820343716 0820343714 |
| OCLC Number: | 809317482 |
| Notes: | OldControl:muse9780820343716. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (296 pages) |
| Contents: | Just over our shoulder : the pleasures and perils of writing the recent past / Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter -- Not dead yet : my identity crisis as a historian of the recent past / Renee C. Romano -- Working without a script : reflections on teaching recent American history / Shelley Sang-Hee Lee -- Opening archives on the recent American past : reconciling the ethics of access and the ethics of privacy / Laura Clark Brown and Nancy Kaiser -- Who owns your archive? : historians and the challenge of intellectual property law / Gail Drakes -- The Berkeley compromise : oral history, human subjects, and the meaning of "research" / Martin Meeker -- The presence of the past : iconic moments and the politics of interviewing in Birmingham / Willoughby Anderson -- When radical feminism talks back : taking an ethnographic turn in the living past / Claire Bond Potter -- Do historians watch enough TV? : broadcast news as a primary source / David Greenberg -- Playing the past : the video game simulation as recent American history / Jeremy K. Saucier -- Eternal flames : the translingual imperative in the study of World War II memories / Alice Yang and Alan S. Christy -- When the present disrupts the past : narrating home care / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein -- "Cult" knowledge : the challenges of studying new religious movements in America / Julius H. Bailey. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Claire Bond Potter and Renee C. Romano. |
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While the essays address methods of doing histories of the recent past, the lessons presented are ones we can all stand to relearn. I would recommend this book to my colleagues doing recent history, as well as to new graduate students and undergraduates who are being asked to conduct recent history research.--Chad H. Parker "Louisiana History " Doing Recent History is an important volume that will be usefully assigned in graduate seminars, particularly for students shaping original research projects on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.--Alex Sayf Cummings "Journal of American Culture " Even if you are not a historian, any information professional will learn something from this book, as it covers a large range of topics including those discussed above as well as the commoditization of information, the effect interviewers have upon the oral histories they collect, and much more. This book is highly recommended to all historians, archivists, and librarians.--Tennessee Libraries [A]ny historian who reads [Doing Recent History] stands to gain something. . . . Potter and Romano open up the possibility that an all-encompassing methodology is no longer an option for historians. This collection encourages scholars to discard, once and for all, the notion that any history is absolute or completely objective and to recognize the interplay of subjectivity and intersubjectivity involved in doing recent history. This book may help historians accept that studies of recent events are valuable as primary documents in and of themselves.--Molly Rosner "Oral History Review " This collection of thoughtful and thought-provoking essays addresses the various pluses and minuses of doing 'recent' history.--K. B. Nutter "Choice " This book hits all the marks. The writing is lively and well paced; the research and historiography are first-rate; there is a nice mixture of known, established authors and rising young scholars; and the questions taken up are directly relevant to what many of us do every day, both in our classrooms and in our scholarship. It's timely, smart, wide ranging, and thought provoking.--Robert O. Self "Brown University " How I wish Doing Recent History had been available when I began writing histories that were 'just over my shoulder.' Potter and Romano demonstrate that tackling recent history poses unique challenges, and they offer absolutely indispensable guidance in meeting them.--Alice Echols "author of Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture " Potter and Romano have drawn together an admirably diverse set of scholars and archivists at all levels of the profession to comment on a broad range of critical and contentious issues in historical scholarship. I am unaware of any other collection that accomplishes what this one does so ably: allowing the reader to enter into and contend with a set of larger epistemological, methodological, pedagogical, presentational, and legal issues that directly affect the ways historians do their jobs in the second decade of the twenty-first century. This book should become a standard reference and teaching tool.--Stephen Brier "codirector of the New Media Lab at the City University of New York " Read more...
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