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The history of U.S. higher education : methods for understanding the past / edited by Marybeth Gasman.
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- Book
- Series:
- Core concepts in higher education
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher--United States--History.
- Education, Higher.
- Universities and colleges.
- Universities and colleges--Graduate work.
- History.
- United States.
- Education, Higher--Study and teaching (Graduate)--United States.
- Universities and colleges--United States--Graduate work--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 222 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2010.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- "Within these walls": reding and writing institutional histories
- Oral history as scholarship
- Autobiograpy and biographical research in higher education
- "No food, no drinks, pencil only": checklists for conducting and interpreting archival research
- The literature review as scholarship: using critical reviews and historiography
- Horizontal history and higher education
- Photographs as primary sources
- Quantification and cognitive history: applying social science theory and method to historical data
- Life history and voice: on standpoints and reflexivity
- "Poor" research: historiographical challenges when sociop-economic status is the unit of analysis
- Where is your "home"? Writing the history of Asian Americans in higher education
- Beyond Black and White: researching the history of Latinos in American higher education
- Writing through the past: federal higher education policy
- The challenge of writing the South.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780203852446
- 0203852443
- Publisher Number:
- 99978346535
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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