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The Resource Doing recent history : on privacy, copyright, video games, institutional review boards, activist scholarship, and history that talks back, edited by Claire Bond Potter and Renee C. Romano

Doing recent history : on privacy, copyright, video games, institutional review boards, activist scholarship, and history that talks back, edited by Claire Bond Potter and Renee C. Romano

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Recent history--the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a modern audience, and in the last several years interest in recent topics has grown exponentially. With subjects as diverse as Walmart and disco, and personalities as disparate as Chavez and Schlafly, books about the history of our own time have become arguably the most exciting and talked-about part of the discipline. Despite this rich tradition and growing popularity, historians have engaged in little discussion about the specific methodological, political, and ethical issues related to writing about the recent past. The twelve essays in this collection explore the challenges of writing histories of recent events where visibility is inherently imperfect, hindsight and perspective are lacking, and historiography is underdeveloped. Those who write about events that have taken place since 1970 encounter exciting challenges that are both familiar and foreign to scholars of a more distant past, including suspicions that their research is not historical enough, negotiation with living witnesses who have a very strong stake in their own representation, and the task of working with new electronic sources. Contributors to this collection consider a wide range of these challenges. They question how sources like television and video games can be better utilized in historical research, explore the role and regulation of doing oral histories, consider the ethics of writing about living subjects, discuss how historians can best navigate questions of privacy and copyright law, and imagine the possibilities that new technologies offer for creating transnational and translingual research opportunities. Doing Recent History offers guidance and insight to any researcher considering tackling the not-so-distant past
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (viii, 311 pages)
Contents
  • pt. 2.
  • Access to the archives
  • Opening archives on the recent American past : reconciling the ethics of access and the ethics of privacy
  • Laura Clark Brown and Nancy Kaiser
  • Who owns your archive? : historians and the challenge of intellectual property law
  • Gail Drakes
  • pt. 3.
  • Working with living subjects
  • The Berkeley compromise : oral history, human subjects, and the meaning of "research"
  • Martin Meeker
  • Just over our shoulder : the pleasures and perils of writing the recent past
  • The presence of the past : iconic moments and the politics of interviewing in Birmingham
  • Willoughby Anderson
  • When radical feminism talks back : taking an ethnographic turn in the living past
  • Claire Bond Potter
  • pt. 4.
  • Technology and the practice of recent history
  • Do historians watch enough TV? : broadcast news as a primary source
  • David Greenberg
  • Playing the past : the video game simulation as recent American history
  • Jeremy K. Saucier
  • Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter
  • Eternal flames : the translingual imperative in the study of World War II memories
  • Alice Yang and Alan S. Christy
  • pt. 5.
  • Crafting narratives
  • When the present disrupts the past : narrating home care
  • Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein
  • "Cult" knowledge : the challenges of studying new religious movements in America
  • Julius H. Bailey
  • pt. 1.
  • Framing the issues
  • Not dead yet : my identity crisis as a historian of the recent past
  • Renee C. Romano
  • Working without a script : reflections on teaching recent American history
  • Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
Isbn
9780820343716
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Label
Doing recent history : on privacy, copyright, video games, institutional review boards, activist scholarship, and history that talks back
Title
Doing recent history
Title remainder
on privacy, copyright, video games, institutional review boards, activist scholarship, and history that talks back
Statement of responsibility
edited by Claire Bond Potter and Renee C. Romano
Contributor
Editor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Recent history--the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a modern audience, and in the last several years interest in recent topics has grown exponentially. With subjects as diverse as Walmart and disco, and personalities as disparate as Chavez and Schlafly, books about the history of our own time have become arguably the most exciting and talked-about part of the discipline. Despite this rich tradition and growing popularity, historians have engaged in little discussion about the specific methodological, political, and ethical issues related to writing about the recent past. The twelve essays in this collection explore the challenges of writing histories of recent events where visibility is inherently imperfect, hindsight and perspective are lacking, and historiography is underdeveloped. Those who write about events that have taken place since 1970 encounter exciting challenges that are both familiar and foreign to scholars of a more distant past, including suspicions that their research is not historical enough, negotiation with living witnesses who have a very strong stake in their own representation, and the task of working with new electronic sources. Contributors to this collection consider a wide range of these challenges. They question how sources like television and video games can be better utilized in historical research, explore the role and regulation of doing oral histories, consider the ethics of writing about living subjects, discuss how historians can best navigate questions of privacy and copyright law, and imagine the possibilities that new technologies offer for creating transnational and translingual research opportunities. Doing Recent History offers guidance and insight to any researcher considering tackling the not-so-distant past
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N$T
Dewey number
973.072
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Index
index present
LC call number
E175.7
LC item number
.O6 2012eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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1958-
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  • Potter, Claire Bond
  • Romano, Renee Christine
Series statement
Since 1970 : histories of contemporary America
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  • United States
  • United States
  • Historiography
  • Historiography
  • Historiography
  • History, Modern
  • HISTORY
  • HISTORY
  • Historiography
  • Historiography
  • United States
Label
Doing recent history : on privacy, copyright, video games, institutional review boards, activist scholarship, and history that talks back, edited by Claire Bond Potter and Renee C. Romano
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Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • pt. 2.
  • Access to the archives
  • Opening archives on the recent American past : reconciling the ethics of access and the ethics of privacy
  • Laura Clark Brown and Nancy Kaiser
  • Who owns your archive? : historians and the challenge of intellectual property law
  • Gail Drakes
  • pt. 3.
  • Working with living subjects
  • The Berkeley compromise : oral history, human subjects, and the meaning of "research"
  • Martin Meeker
  • Just over our shoulder : the pleasures and perils of writing the recent past
  • The presence of the past : iconic moments and the politics of interviewing in Birmingham
  • Willoughby Anderson
  • When radical feminism talks back : taking an ethnographic turn in the living past
  • Claire Bond Potter
  • pt. 4.
  • Technology and the practice of recent history
  • Do historians watch enough TV? : broadcast news as a primary source
  • David Greenberg
  • Playing the past : the video game simulation as recent American history
  • Jeremy K. Saucier
  • Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter
  • Eternal flames : the translingual imperative in the study of World War II memories
  • Alice Yang and Alan S. Christy
  • pt. 5.
  • Crafting narratives
  • When the present disrupts the past : narrating home care
  • Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein
  • "Cult" knowledge : the challenges of studying new religious movements in America
  • Julius H. Bailey
  • pt. 1.
  • Framing the issues
  • Not dead yet : my identity crisis as a historian of the recent past
  • Renee C. Romano
  • Working without a script : reflections on teaching recent American history
  • Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
Control code
785940947
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (viii, 311 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780820343716
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctt3q43h5
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)785940947
Label
Doing recent history : on privacy, copyright, video games, institutional review boards, activist scholarship, and history that talks back, edited by Claire Bond Potter and Renee C. Romano
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • pt. 2.
  • Access to the archives
  • Opening archives on the recent American past : reconciling the ethics of access and the ethics of privacy
  • Laura Clark Brown and Nancy Kaiser
  • Who owns your archive? : historians and the challenge of intellectual property law
  • Gail Drakes
  • pt. 3.
  • Working with living subjects
  • The Berkeley compromise : oral history, human subjects, and the meaning of "research"
  • Martin Meeker
  • Just over our shoulder : the pleasures and perils of writing the recent past
  • The presence of the past : iconic moments and the politics of interviewing in Birmingham
  • Willoughby Anderson
  • When radical feminism talks back : taking an ethnographic turn in the living past
  • Claire Bond Potter
  • pt. 4.
  • Technology and the practice of recent history
  • Do historians watch enough TV? : broadcast news as a primary source
  • David Greenberg
  • Playing the past : the video game simulation as recent American history
  • Jeremy K. Saucier
  • Renee C. Romano and Claire Bond Potter
  • Eternal flames : the translingual imperative in the study of World War II memories
  • Alice Yang and Alan S. Christy
  • pt. 5.
  • Crafting narratives
  • When the present disrupts the past : narrating home care
  • Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein
  • "Cult" knowledge : the challenges of studying new religious movements in America
  • Julius H. Bailey
  • pt. 1.
  • Framing the issues
  • Not dead yet : my identity crisis as a historian of the recent past
  • Renee C. Romano
  • Working without a script : reflections on teaching recent American history
  • Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
Control code
785940947
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (viii, 311 pages)
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780820343716
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctt3q43h5
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)785940947

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