Benjamin Shambaugh and the intellectual foundations of public history / by Rebecca Conard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conard, Rebecca.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historians--United States--Biography.

Historians.

Historians--Iowa--Biography.

Public history--United States.

Public history.

Public history--Iowa.

United States--Historiography.

United States.

Iowa--Historiography.

Iowa.

Shambaugh, Benjamin Franklin, 1871-1940.

Shambaugh, Benjamin Franklin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Conard draws upon an unpublished, mid-1940's biography by research historian Jacob Swisher to trace the forces that shaped Shambaugh's early years, his administration of the State Historical Society of Iowa, his development of applied history and commonwealth history in the 1910's and 1920's, and the transformations in his thinking and career during the 1930's. Framing this intriguingly interwoven narrative are chapters that contextualize Shambaugh's professional development within the development of the historical profession as a whole in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and

Contents:

Foreword and Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1.From the New History to Applied History; 2.A Gift of Fate; 3.The Politics of Public Institutions; 4.A Deliberate Course; 5.The Commonwealth Conference; 6.A New Deal in the Game of Life; 7.The Emergence of the Modern Public History Movement; Abbreviations and Shortened Reference; Notes; Collected Works of Benjamin Shambaugh; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-237) and index.

ISBN:

9781587294013

158729401X

OCLC:

775873065