Benjamin Shambaugh and the intellectual foundations of public history /

Conard draws upon an unpublished, mid-1940's biography by research historian Jacob Swisher to trace the forces that shaped Shambaugh's early years, his administration of the State Historical Society of Iowa, his development of applied history and commonwealth history in the 1910's and...

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Main Author: Conard, Rebecca
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2002.
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Summary:Conard draws upon an unpublished, mid-1940's biography by research historian Jacob Swisher to trace the forces that shaped Shambaugh's early years, his administration of the State Historical Society of Iowa, his development of applied history and commonwealth history in the 1910's and 1920's, and the transformations in his thinking and career during the 1930's. Framing this intriguingly interwoven narrative are chapters that contextualize Shambaugh's professional development within the development of the historical profession as a whole in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and.
Item Description:Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks
EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 247 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index.
Collected works of Banjamin Shambaugh": pages 219-226
ISBN:158729401X
9781587294013