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Volume 5, Issue 4
October 1983
The Public Historian Cover Image for Volume 5, Issue 4
ISSN 0272-3433
EISSN 1533-8576
Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Volume Information
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Letters to the Editor

More Enthusiasm
Thomas M. Jacklin
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Public History in Canada
C. James Taylor
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Public History and Local History

Public History and Local History: An Introduction
John Alexander Williams
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History and the Politics of Community Change in Cincinnati
Zane L. Miller
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The Emergence of a Genre: The Urban Pictorial History
Carol E. Hoffecker
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The Accomplishments of the Newberry Library Family and Community History Programs: An Interview with Richard Jensen
Richard Jensen
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Listening for the Dead
Sam Bass Warner,, Jr.
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The Role of Research in Public Historical Agencies
Harvey Green
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The Place of Local History in the Training of Public Historians
Myron A. Marty
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Uncovering the Social History of Queens
Janet E. Lieberman, Richard K. Lieberman
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Exhibit Reviews

Review: An Elegant Art: Fashion and Fantasy in the Eighteenth Century, by Edward Maeder
Bruce Craig
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Review: The Frederick Douglass Years, by Louise Daniel Hutchinson
Lee F. Pendergrass
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Historical Novel Review

Review: The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco and William Weaver
Jeffrey Burton Russell
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Book Reviews

Review: Lives of Their Own: Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960, by John Bodnar, Roger Simon, and Michael P. Weber
Joseph R. Conlin
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Review: Ethnic Chicago, by Peter d'A. Jones and Melvin G. Holli
Allan H. Spear
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Review: New Urban Immigrants: The Korean Community in New York, by Illsoo Kim
Reed Ueda
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Review: To Dwell among Friends: Personal Networks in Town and City, by Claude S. Fischer
John F. McClymer
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Review: Blacks in Topeka, Kansas, 1865-1915: A Social History, by Thomas C. Cox
James Borchert
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Review: The City and the Saloon: Denver, 1858-1916, by Thomas J. Noel
Gary L. Cunningham
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Review: Oil Booms: Social Change in Five Texas Towns, by Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien
Jane Kenamore
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Review: Santa Barbara by the Sea, by Rochelle Bookspan
David E. Kyvig
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Review: A History of Environmental Review in Santa Barbara County, California, by Gregory R. Graves and Sally L. Simon
John Opie
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Review: Studies of a Growing Community: Santa Barbara, 1930-1980, by Eleanor Boba and Carol Snook Weare
Edward J. Davies, II
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Review: Indiana through Tradition and Change: A History of the Hoosier State and Its People, 1920-1945, by James H. Madison
Ralph D. Gray
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Review: A History of the Indiana Historical Society, 1830-1980, by Lana Ruegamer
Loren N. Horton
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Review: Up before Daylight: Life Histories from the Alabama Writers' Project, 1938-1939, by James Seay Brown, Jr.
Ava F. Kahn
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Review: Oklahoma Politics: A History, by James R. Scales and Danney Goble
Gregory R. Graves
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Review: Alaskan John G. Brady: Missionary, Judge and Governor, 1878-1918, by Ted C. Hinckley
Jonathan M. Nielson
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Review: Noblesse Oblige: Charity and Cultural Philanthropy in Chicago, 1849-1929, by Kathleen D. McCarthy
Michael H. Ebner
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Review: Police in Urban America, 1860-1920, by Eric H. Monkkonen
Fred W. Viehe
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Review: The Healthiest City: Milwaukee and the Politics of Health Reform, by Judith Walzer Leavitt
Virginia Olesen
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Review: Diplomats in Buckskins: A History of Indian Delegations in Washington City, by Herman J. Viola
Steven W. Ireton
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Review: Nearby History: Exploring the Past around You, by David E. Kyvig and Myron A. Marty
David Weitzman
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Book Notes

Review: Baltimore: A Living Renaissance, by Lenora Heilig Nast, Laurence N. Krause, and R. C. Monk
Myron A. Marty
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Review: Rediscovering Brooklyn History: A Guide to Research Collections, by Thomas Mills; Building Blocks of Brooklyn: A Study of Urban Growth, by David Ment, Anthony Robins, and David Framberger; Education and Culture in Brooklyn: A History of Ten Institutions, by Carol Lopate; The Shaping of a City: A Brief History of Brooklyn, by David Ment; Factories, Foundries, and Refineries: A History of Five Brooklyn Industries, by Joshua Brown and David Ment; The People of Brooklyn: A History of Two Neighborhoods, by David Ment and Mary S. Donovan; and A Guide to Brooklyn Manuscripts in the Long Island Historical Society, by Robert Sink
Jeff Norrell
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Review: The Historic Architecture of Cabarrus County, North Carolina, by Peter R. Kaplan and David William Brown; Wilson County's Architectural Heritage, by Kate Ohno; Cabins and Castles: The History and Architecture of Buncombe County, North Carolina, by Douglas Swaim; and From Frontier to Factory: An Architectural History of Forsyth County, by Gwynne Stephens Taylor
Michael G. Schene
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Review: Hard Times: Beginnings of the Great Depression in North Carolina, 1929-1933, by John L. Bell, Jr.
Kenneth E. Hendrickson,, Jr.
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Review: City of Portland, Oregon, Archives Guide, by Liisa Fagerlund and For the Record: Catalog of the Public Records, City of Sacramento 1848-1982, Sacramento County 1848-1982, by Susan E. Searcy
Richard J. Cox
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Review: Guide to County and Municipal Records on Microfilm in the Pennsylvania State Archives, by Nancy P. Fortna and Frank M. Suran
David Levine
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Review: A Guide to Historical and Genealogical Records in Latah County, Idaho, by Nancy Luebbert, Betty Meyer, and Keith Petersen
Merle Wells
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Review: Directory of Oklahoma Foundations, by Thomas E. Broce
Gregory R. Graves
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Review: Family and Community: Italian Immigrants in Buffalo, 1880-1930, by Virginia Yans-McLaughlin
Rosalind Crosby
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Review: A Santa Barbara Old Town Tradition: Joe's Cafe, by John Brinley-Higgins
James Williams
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Review: Architectural Photography, by Jeff Dean
David Gebhard
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All Issues
Conserving the Historic Stone Walls of New England
Review: Carceral Entanglements: Gendered Public Memories of Japanese American World War II Incarceration, by Wendi Yamashita
The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home. Historic New England, Eustis Estate, Milton, MA
The Birch Trials at Fraunces Tavern. Fraunces Tavern Museum, New York City, NY
Japanese Hall and History Project. Legacy of the Plains Museum, Gering, NE
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