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1 online resource (264 pages) |
| Contents |
Foreword and Acknowledments; 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 |
| Summary |
Conard draws upon an unpublished, mid-1940s biography by research historian Jacob Swisher to trace the forces that shaped Shambaugh's early years, his administration of the State Historical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 1910s and 1920s, and the transformations in his thinking and career during the 1930s. 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 asse |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Shambaugh, Benjamin Franklin, 1871-1940.
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| SUBJECT |
Shambaugh, Benjamin Franklin, 1871-1940 fast |
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Historians -- United States -- Biography
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Historians -- Iowa -- Biography
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Public history -- United States
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Public history -- Iowa
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HISTORY -- General.
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Historians
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Historiography
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Public history
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United States -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140129
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Iowa -- Historiography
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Iowa
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781587294013 |
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158729401X |
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