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Showing 1 to 20 of 28699 for “"history"”.
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Retouching History
Retouching History is an eight-chapter excerpt from a novel centering on protagonist Blenny Hilyard. Blenny is a Concord College senior who makes discoveries, both personal and otherwise, and who is on the last day of a three-month archaeological survey near Quseir, Egypt, a small town on the Red …
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History Writing and History Making in Twentieth Century Beirut
This dissertation takes the idea of modern history as its subject of study. It investigates one thread of Arab historicism—belief in the primacy of history as the key to all human knowledge—by examining the intellectual and pedagogical endeavours of Constantine Zurayq (1909-2000) and his ilk. In …
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Contagious History: Affect and Identification in Queer Public History Exhibitions
For LGBTQ people, history is never simply the past, what has passed, or what is dead and gone. Uncovering neglected LGBTQ pasts has been heralded not only as a project for historians but as an explicitly political endeavour. Histories that document LGBTQ lives and cultures have not traditionally …
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Bringing history to the public via genealogy and family history
… shares many techniques and attributes with history as a subject of study, it is wider in both investigation and impact. Popular and scholarly history have much to gain by including the skills and methods of the genealogical researcher. One option is to present genealogy, history and …
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The Business of Writing History: Case Studies in Organizational History
Organizational history.
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Using geography to help teach history: dual-encoding history lesson plans
… the school system? Given the dominant role of history in the K-12 social studies curriculum, use of the psychological theory of dual-encoding to integrate geography and history lesson planning is one approach to bring more geography into the classroom. As part of Kansas Geographic Alliance …
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Co-Creation of Local History: Working with the Odd Down History Group
Many people are likely unaware of the history and heritage of their local area, whilst others are passionate about it but may not have an outlet through which to share their passion. This is potentially even more likely in a World Heritage City such as Bath, where the focus is almost exclusively on …
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Colorado Stories: Interpreting HIstory for Public Audiences at the History Colorado Center
Interpreting cultural conflict at History Colorados communities exhibit, Colorado Stories, created a three-way dialogue between scholars, museum audiences, and community stakeholders. Four communities, Amache, Sand Creek, Lincoln Hills, and the Latino borderlands of southern Colorado required …
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The history of abakwaMthethwa
… ruler or a king who become their overlord. The history of abaKwaMthethwa is so wide that one would need volumes to do justice to it. This project is only going to deal with their movement from around uBombo mountains round about AD 1500 to 1818 when king Dingiswyo was assassinated by Zwide, …
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Sandoz Writing (Righting) History
… historical research, which employed ethnohistory, and detailed research notes to support her stories of both fiction and non-fiction. Her advocacy through her writing and personal efforts were important in shaping opinions in Nebraska and the United States. While Sandoz’s intricate work …
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Doublecloth: History, Technique, Possibilities.
The aim of this research is to analyse through practical and historical investigation the manner in which Doublecloth in the twentieth century has been transformed from a traditional woven technique to one of artistic innovation and challenge. The first series of woven samples and historic enquiry …
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Dystopia: An Ecological History
… modern environmental movements. By developing a history of dystopian fiction’s mutual imbrication with growing anxieties about ecological degradation, my dissertation shows that texts in the genre have grappled for decades with socioecological questions that still perplex us today: can nuclear …
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Identity And Public History
<p>This paper considers the creation of identity and self through interaction with museums. By understanding whether there is a correlation between how someone views themselves and their placement within society and the national narrative, consideration of alternative actions in combating social …
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Resolving Gnetum Evolutionary History
<em>Gnetum</em> are non-flowering seed plants of the tropics, indigenous to South America, Africa, and Asia. This group of about 40 species is fascinating to botanists because it shares distinctive morphological characteristics with flowering plants, such as broad leaves, woody stems, and …
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Responsibility, History, and Authenticity
There is a debate in the literature on free will and responsibility regarding whether responsibility is historical. The focus is on what makes one’s values, desires, beliefs, and other springs of action authentic or “truly one’s own”, and what effect, if any, past manipulation has on authenticity. …
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