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Conard draws upon an unpublished, mid-1940's biography by research historian Jacob Swisher to trace the forces that shaped Shambaugh's early years, his administration of the State Historical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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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword and Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. From the New History to Applied History; 2.A Gift of Fate; 3. The Politics of Public Institutions; 4.A Deliberate Course; 5. The Commonwealth Conference; 6.A New Deal in the Game of Life; 7. The Emergence of the Modern Public History Movement; Abbreviations and Shortened Reference; Notes; Collected Works of Benjamin Shambaugh; Bibliography; Index