Roy Rosenzweig (1950–2007)
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Roy Rosenzweig (1950-2007) was professor of history and founder of the Center for History and Mew Media at George Mason University. Author of several books, including The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life (with David Thelen), and director of digital history projects, mehr anzeigen such as History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web and the September 11th Digital Archive, he received the Richard W. Lyman Award (presented by the National Humanities Center and the Rockefeller Foundation) for outstanding achievement in the use of information technology to advance scholarship and teaching in the humanities. weniger anzeigen
Werke von Roy Rosenzweig
Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (2005) 126 Exemplare
Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920 (1983) 78 Exemplare
Who Built America?: Part II: From the Great War of 1914 to the Dawn of the Atomic Age in 1946 (2001) 1 Exemplar
Government and the Arts in Thirties America: A Guide to Oral Histories and Other Research Materials (1986) 1 Exemplar
Everyone a Historian 1 Exemplar
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Who Built America?: Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society: Volume Two (1992) — einige Ausgaben — 146 Exemplare
Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History: National and International Perspectives (2000) — Mitwirkender — 47 Exemplare
Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (2007) — Mitwirkender — 43 Exemplare
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Americans do not expect the history presented in movies and television, even documentaries, to be accurate. People in the survey commented that as entertainment there was a need to compromise accuracy for dramatic effect. No surprise there. History taught in secondary school was despised as being boring and irrelevant, again no surprise, but history teachers, those who were willing to discuss topics outside the narrow presentations found in their textbooks, were rated much higher than the classes they taught, a distinction I did not expect to see.
The average American is experienced at “doing history”. That is they take experiences from the past, theirs, their families, and what they learn from sources they see as reliable, and integrate them into the decisions that they make. I doubt that the interviewees would identify the critical thinking they did in considering the past when making decisions as “doing history” it is the skill history majors sharpen in order to “do history”.
It has taken me almost two week to write this review. I kept wondering off on tangents about how this book explains the effectiveness of various museum exhibits I have seen. I honestly wish I was in a classroom setting and able to discuss this book with other public history wannabes. Which explains why this is on a graduate school reading list and why I enjoyed it so much. If you are at all curious about how others relate to the past you should read this book. If you are a humanities teacher, you need to read this, it explains what your students will consider relevant. There are no scholarly discussion of theories in it, just an honest look at how we Americans relate to our past. Roy Rosenweig was a great writer and editor and David Thelen only once, in his conclusion, had me concerned about his choice of multi syllable words. The book is worth indulging him that one weakness.… (mehr)