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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"local history"”.
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Studies in local history : Naxxar
… Naxxar gave me more drive to work on the social history of the village. My research is based on different sources, such as various Censuses of Malta, The Malta Government Gazette and the Malta Blue Books. Together with several different secondary sources published by different local historians …
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The Use of Tape Recordings in Teaching Local History
… is to develop rationale for the teaching of local history in the schools through the use of recorded documentary statements by eyewitnesses to local events. As illustrative of this mode of teaching local history, a series of recordings are made in which the residents of the Pomona, …
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Discover Uptown: Using the Built Environment to Interpret Local History
… which uses the built environment to interpret local history. Developed for use by the Columbus Museum Uptown as а guide for a walking tour by eighth-grade students, the project surveyed selected blocks of buildings in downtown Columbus. The structures were examined for their architectural, …
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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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Capital Constructions: Race and the Reimagining of Washington, D.C.'s Local History in the Twentieth Century
… the idea that Washington, D.C. possesses a local history. Through the investigation of two recognized historic districts--Georgetown and U Street--this thesis explores how Washington, D.C.'s local history has been commemorated. Examining the constructed nature of these historic …
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The Utilization Of Local History In Teaching American Religious History: A Gilded Age And Progressive Era North Dakota Case Study
… of college-level courses on American religious history generally leave out the importance of local and regional histories when telling the story of religion in America. The study of local history provides a fertile ground for understanding broad national trends in a local context. This …
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Tapes and testimony : making the local history of Italians in the Western Cape in the first half of the 20th century
The history of long distance immigrant communities, particularly those with few or no written documentary records, is often cited as an obvious example for oral historical enquiry. Such groupings would be represented by the Greek, Portuguese and Jewish as well as the Italian population in South …
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TAWĀRĪKH AL-BULDĀN: LOCAL HISTORY IN THE ARABIC TRADITION A historiographical study based on a reading of a history of Gharnāṭa entitled Al-Iḥāṭa fī Akhbār Gharnāṭa by al-wazīr Lisān al-Dīn b. al-Khaṭīb (d. 776/1374)
… study of tawārīkh al- buldān, or local history in the Arabic tradition. It is constituted of ten chapters that build on each other to convey a central thesis, which is argued, systematically, proceeding from the general to the specific. In this effort, a new approach is taken …
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The making of a historical consciousness in Henry County, Indiana: a case study of the Henry County Historical Society, 1887-1950
… evolving practices of collecting and preserving local history, organized and developed a sustainable local historical society. The 1902 dedication ceremony, which signaled the beginning of the “museum” chapter of the HCHS, was only one of many steps in the institutionalization of local history in …
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A Moment in Time: Thirty Years in the Making, 1973-2003
Local history
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Inland empire wildlife bingo
… an interest in wildlife conservation and local history.
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Inland empire wildlife bingo
… an interest in wildlife conservation and local history.
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Local Identity in a Capital: Negotiating the Local and the National in Late Ming Nanjing
Can localism take place in a capital? This paper investigates how the native literati in late Ming Nanjing visualized their identity in terms of the local or the national. By analyzing 3 different genres of works by these literati (the biji, pictorial guides and religious writings), I argue that …
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A história local e seu lugar na história: histórias ensinadas em Ceará-Mirim
This Researchis about history education and is directed toward the understanding of teacher practices in schools of the basic education in Ceará-Mirim, a city located in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. Its purpose is to understand the approaching forms of local history in 5ª to 8ª grade …
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Locality, Identity, and Geography: Translocal Practices of Huizhou Merchants in Late Imperial China
Recognizing, with local history, the diversity of local environments in China, I try to dispose of the (sometimes inadvertent) implication that these diverse locales were discrete. By highlighting the interconnectedness that was created by the movement of people, this dissertation brings out the …
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Afterimages of Kincaid Mounds
… practice and changing political strategies, a local history indicative of Kincaid’s internal social processes and political trajectory in the broader Ohio Valley and Mississippian culture.
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Trembling Earth
… within the city of Richmond.My work depicts local history and ecology inspired by Richmond and the surrounding region. Subtle Gothic elements add anxiety to the otherwise pastoral scenes. Gothic foreboding in the work questions our ecological future and the permanence of our human presence in …
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They were Triomphanti: The Italian Homesteading Experience in Saskatchewan, 1896-1930
… Research into census, homesteading files, and local history books from the period of 1896-1930 demonstrates that this was not the case. It is argued that not only were there greater numbers of rural Italian immigrants in Saskatchewan than has hitherto been acknowledged, but that many were …
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An environmental justice assessment of the light rail expansion in Denton County, Texas.
… These include the incorporation of a community's local history into an environmental justice assessment, and tailoring the public planning process to the demographics and culture of the residents.
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Silence Descends: Lynchings and Their Aftermath in Lafayette and Union Counties, Mississippi
… occurred his death is not acknowledged in the local history narrative, nor is it memorialized with a marker. Elwood Higginbottom was lynched in neighboring Lafayette County in 1935 and, despite a silence that has persisted for decades, has recently been memorialized. The process of …
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