A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History - Paperback

by Michael Frisch (Author)

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. Memory, History, and Cultural Authority

Headnotes


1. Oral History and Hard Times: A Review Essay
2. The Memory of History
3. American History and the Structures of Collective Memory: A Modest Exercise in Empirical Iconography

II. Interpretive Authority in Oral History

Headnotes


4. Oral History and the Presentation of Class Consciousness: The New York Times v. The Buffalo Unemployed
5. Preparing Interview Transcripts for Documentary Publication: A Line-by-Line Illustration of the Editing Process
6. Presenting and Receiving Oral History across Cultural Space: A Note on Responses of Chinese Students to the Documentary Trilogy One Village in China
7. Oral History, Documentary, and the Mystification of Power: A Critique of Vietnam: A Television History

III. A Shared Authority: Scholarship, Audience, and Public Presentation

Headnotes


8. Quality in History Programs: From Celebration to Exploration of Values
9. Town Into City: A Reconsideration on the Occasion of Springfield's 350th Anniversary, 1636-1986
10. "Get the Picutre?" A Review Essay
11. Audience Expectations as Resource and Challenge: Ellis Island as a Case Study
12. Urban Public History in Celebratory Contexts: The Example of the "Philadelphia's Moving Past" Project
13. The Presentation of Urban History in Big City Museums

Notes

Author Biography

Michael Frisch is Professor and Chair of the Department of American Studies at State University of New York at Buffalo.