A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public HistoryA collection of 13 previously published essays by Frisch (American studies, SUNY). Among them are general reflections on oral history, collective memory, and American culture and history; detailed studies of specific issues in documentary work; and considerations of public history and programming. Examples used include the unemployed, Chinese students, and the television history of the Vietnam War. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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Contents
Memory History and Cultural Authority | 1 |
Oral History and Hard Times A Review Essay | 5 |
The Memory of History | 15 |
American History and the Structures of Collective Memory A Modest Exercise in Empirical Iconography | 29 |
Interpretive Authority in Oral History | 55 |
Oral History and the Presentation of Class Consciousness The New York Times v The Buffalo Unemployed | 59 |
Preparing Interview Transcripts for Documentary Publication A LinebyLine Illustration of the Editing Process | 81 |
Presenting and Receiving Oral History Across Cultural Space A Note on Responses of Chinese Students to the Documentary Trilogy One Village in C... | 147 |
A Shared Authority Scholarship Audience and Public Presentation | 179 |
Quality in History Programs From Celebration to Exploration of Values | 183 |
Town into City A Reconsideration on the Occasion of Springfields 350th Anniversary 16361986 | 191 |
Get the Picture? A Review Essay | 203 |
Audience Expectations as Resource and Challenge Ellis Island as a Case Study | 215 |
Urban Public History in Celebratory Contexts The Example of the Philadelphias Moving Past Project | 225 |
The Presentation of Urban History in Big City Museums | 239 |
Notes | 265 |
Oral History Documentary and the Mystification of Power A Critique of Vietnam A Television History | 159 |
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| Title | A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History SUNY series in Oral and Public History |
| Author | Michael Frisch |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | SUNY Press, 1990 |
| ISBN | 0791401332, 9780791401330 |
| Length | 273 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / General Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric |
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