An Honest Preface And Other Essays
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An Honest Preface And Other Essays
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Author : Walter Prescott Webb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
An Honest Preface And Other Essays written by Walter Prescott Webb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with United States categories.
Political and cultural observations by the University of Texas history professor and President of the American Historical Association.
An Honest Preface
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Author : Walter Prescott Webb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1951
An Honest Preface written by Walter Prescott Webb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with Literature, Modern categories.
Essays On Walter Prescott Webb And The Teaching Of History
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Author : Jacques Barzun
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 1985
Essays On Walter Prescott Webb And The Teaching Of History written by Jacques Barzun and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with History categories.
Walter Prescott Webb's contributions to the study of history, detailing the direction historical studies have taken since Webb wrote. Webb's historiography and its relationship to classroom instruction is the subject of the second essay, by Elliott West. An appreciation of Webb and a sense of his teaching style are offered by Anne M. Butler and Richard A. Baker, while Dennis Reinhartz discusses the use of maps in the classroom, a practice to which Webb was committed. In a postscript, Llerena Friend writes a personal tribute to her mentor and colleague.
Frontiers Of Historical Imagination
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Author : Kerwin Lee Klein
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-11-10
Frontiers Of Historical Imagination written by Kerwin Lee Klein and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-10 with History categories.
The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for Kerwin Klein's analysis of the narrating of history. Klein explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood the story of America's origin and the way those understandings have shaped and been shaped by changing conceptions of history. The American West was once the frontier space where migrating Europe collided with Native America, where the historical civilizations of the Old World met the nonhistorical wilds of the New. It was not only the cultural combat zone where American democracy was forged but also the ragged edge of History itself, where historical and nonhistorical defied and defined each other. Klein maintains that the idea of a collision between people with and without history still dominates public memory. But the collision, he believes, resounds even more powerfully in the historical imagination, which creates conflicts between narration and knowledge and carries them into the language used to describe the American frontier. In Klein's words, "We remain obscurely entangled in philosophies of history we no longer profess, and the very idea of 'America' balances on history's shifting frontiers."
A Texan S Story
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Author : Walter Prescott Webb
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2020-09-24
A Texan S Story written by Walter Prescott Webb and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Walter Prescott Webb (1888–1963), a towering figure in Texas and western history and letters, published an abundance of books—but for decades the autobiography he’d written late in life sat largely undisturbed among his papers. Webb’s remarkable story appears here in print for the first time, edited and annotated by Michael Collins, an authority on Texas history. This firsthand account offers readers a window on the life, the work, and the world of one of the most interesting thinkers in the history, and historiography, of Texas. Webb’s narrative carries us from the drought-scarred rim of West Texas known as the Cross Timbers, to the hardscrabble farm life that formed him, to the bright lights of Austin and the University of Texas, where he truly came of age. Fascinating for the picture it summons of the Texas of his youth and the intellectual landscape of his career, Webb’s autobiography also offers intriguing insights into the way his epic work, The Great Plains, evolved. He also describes the struggle behind his groundbreaking history of that storied frontier fighting force the Texas Rangers. Along the way, Webb reflects on the nature of historical research, the role that Texas and the West have played in American history, the importance of education, and the place of universities in our national culture. More than a rare encounter with a true American character’s life and thought, A Texan’s Story is also a uniquely enlightening look into the understanding, writing, and teaching of western American history in its formative years.
Handbook Of Oral History
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Author : Thomas Lee Charlton
language : en
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Release Date : 2006
Handbook Of Oral History written by Thomas Lee Charlton and has been published by Rowman Altamira this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
In recent decades, oral history has matured into an established field of critical importance to historians and social scientists alike. Handbook of Oral History captures the current state-of-the-art, identifies major strands of intellectual development, and predicts key directions for future growth in theory, research, and application.
Babbitts And Bohemians From The Great War To The Great Depression
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Author : Elizabeth Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-11-30
Babbitts And Bohemians From The Great War To The Great Depression written by Elizabeth Stevenson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-30 with History categories.
Babbitts and Bohemians is a fresh and informed account of the 1920s, a decade that seems almost mythical to some. Elizabeth Stevenson finds that the true twenties was a society of contrast. On the one hand, it was an era of sameness and political conformity, but on the other hand, it was also a time of cultural revolt. In places labeled Main Street and Middletown the citizenry followed a conventional pattern. At the same time, while most of America enjoyed the good life of this period, bohemians in Greenwich Village and expatriates in Paris were fervently scornful of it. The author explores the new sense of self and the world during this period, especially evident in the writings of Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, Robert Frost, H. L. Mencken, Glenway Wescott, William Faulkner, and others. Stevenson writes about numerous facets of the 1920s: the brilliant entertainers, Harlem's brief period of glory, the worsening conditions in the South, the hero worship of Babe Ruth and Charles Lindbergh, and the stockmarket crash in 1929 that brought an abrupt end to the golden years. In the new introduction, the author reflects on her personal experience and discusses how the 1920s affected her family. She goes on to talk about how living in the tumultuous 1960s prompted her to write Babbitts and Bohemians. While she concedes that there were some not so glorious times during the 1920s, she still considers it a period where the vitality of life exhibited itself in all sorts of interesting and entertaining new ways. Elizabeth Stevenson succeeds admirably in conveying the spirit and the history of the era: the people and the mood that shaped the times; the political, international, and economic apathy; the conformity and rebellion of a decade unlike any other before or since. Babbitts and Bohemians will be enjoyed by all, especially historians, sociologists, and political scientists.
Sign Here If You Exist And Other Essays
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Author : Jill Sisson Quinn
language : en
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
Release Date : 2020
Sign Here If You Exist And Other Essays written by Jill Sisson Quinn and has been published by Mad Creek Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Personal essays tying a woman's love of the natural world to her own experiences as an adoptive mother.
Dream A Little
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Author : Dorothee E. Kocks
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2000-09-19
Dream A Little written by Dorothee E. Kocks and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09-19 with History categories.
Writing with a novelist's sensitivity toward language, Kocks explores the idea that Americans have historically looked to the land for answers to society's problems. To illustrate this point, she shows that the frontier state with its homestead program was actually the predecessor of the modern welfare state. Instead of money, the federal government gave away land. Kocks shows how we have "forgotten" the politics and history behind this giveaway and unravels the significance of this forgetting for our national consciousness.
The Way To The West
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Author : Elliott West
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 1995
The Way To The West written by Elliott West and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
Elegantly assembles the environmental, social, cultural, political, and economic history of the Great Plains in the 19th century.