Community Archives

This book traces the trajectory of the community archives movement, including development to sites such as historical societies, social movement or...

How do archives and other cultural institutions such as museums determine the boundaries of a particular community, and of their own institutional ...

Reducere. Archives and Special Collections as Sites of Contestation explores the reinterpretation and resituating of archives and special collections held by...

Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the c...

Reducere. Examines the history of James City, a black community located near New Bern. Established in 1863 as a camp for destitute former slaves, James City ...

The Albuquerque Museum's fiftieth anniversary is commemorated in a series of books highlighting the museum's various collections in art, photograph...

Contributor(s): Author: Devin E. NaarTouted as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans, " the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once hom...

Reducere. Before the outbreak of the Civil War, Hertford County had one of the largest populations of free people of color in North Carolina. Although they l...

Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award 2017 Mohawk midwife Katsi Cook lives in Akwesasne, an indigenous community in ups...

Reducere. In the early twentieth century-not long after 1898, when the United States claimed the Philippines as an American colony-Filipinas/os became a vita...

Reducere. Ponce de Leon is reputed to have entered the inlet now named for him at New Smyrna Beach during his first Florida exploration in 1513. Jonathan Dic...

Reducere. All too often, in a hurried attempt to "catch up, " diversity training can create division among staff or place undue burdens on a handful of emplo...

Reducere. The history of Puerto Ricans in the so-called "Babel of Steel" dates back more than a century. Through hundreds of images of the "pioneers"-those P...

Reducere. Kofi Dᴐnkᴐ was a blacksmith and farmer, as well as an important healer, intellectual, spiritual leader, settler of disputes, and custodian of share...

The Military Museums in Calgary, Alberta is Western Canada's only tri-service museum and military education centre. Containing the regimental museu...

Reducere. San Francisco's Chinatown--the oldest, largest, and most famous Chinese enclave outside of Asia--is more than a tourist attraction. Since its birth...

Reducere. The text known as "Second Enoch, " was discovered in 1886 by Professor Sokolov in the archives of the Belgrade Public Library. The Second Book of E...

This comprehensive international collection reflects on the practice, purpose and functionality of queer oral history, and in doing so, demonstrate...

Reducere. From the original inhabitants from the Tsartlip First Nation to the lost community of immigrant workers from China and India, from a company town t...

For over 150 years, Tlingit women artists have beaded colorful, intricately beautiful designs on moccasins, dolls, octopus bags, tunics, and other ...

Nonbinary gender identities are those that fall outside the traditional binary of "man" and "woman." These include genderfluid, androgynous, gender...

This is the story of the Dyess Colony, created in 1934 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal to aid in the nation's economic recove...

Reducere. A city of modest size, Providence, Rhode Island, had the third-largest Native American population in the United States by the first decade of the n...

Reducere. DescriptionThe information in this book is based entirely on the eyewitness accounts in the National Archives and not on the newspaper accounts of ...

Reducere. T. Eric Monroe is opening his historic vault of 90's photography to preserve and promote the legacies of iconic personas who shaped Hiphop culture....

Reducere. Returning to Ceremony is the follow-up to Chantal Fiola's award-winning Rekindling the Sacred Fire and continues her ground-breaking examination of...

DescriptionIt began in New York City on June 28, 1969. When police raided the Stonewall Inn--a bar in the Greenwich Village neighborhood, known as ...

DescriptionThe first history of the American hiking community and its contributions to the nation's vast network of trails In the mid-nineteenth ce...

DescriptionIran is home to the largest Jewish population in the Middle East, outside of Israel. At its peak in the twentieth century, the populatio...

Reducere. For almost three decades, the Grateful Dead was America's most popular touring band. No Simple Highway is the first book to ask the simple question...

Lake Forest: Estates, People, and Culture is the first book-scaled historical survey entirely focused on this notable Chicago North Shore suburb in...

In 2019, the parish archives of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Wilmette were carefully studied to preserve the legacy of Father William Netstraete...

Reducere. Josef Rosin's "Preserving Our Litvak Heritage" is a monumental work documenting the history of 31 Jewish communities in Lithuanaia from their incep...

Reducere. Like many black school principals, Ulysses Byas, who served the Gainesville, Georgia, school system in the 1950s and 1960s, was reverently addresse...

Reducere. Newtown has a rich heritage that is abundant with historic charm. Its three-century-long growth is founded on deep agricultural roots with a notabl...

Reducere. The Setaukets, Old Field, and Poquott is a rich collection of photographs, documents, and oral histories from the archives of the Three Village His...

Reducere. In the early years of the Cold War, the United States mounted expansive public diplomacy programs in the Global South, including initiatives with t...

Reducere. The first blush of spring finds Melinda filled with great expectations and high-flying goals. The charming farm and its critters are finally hers f...

Reducere. Naples was not much more than a bend in the road in the 1940s, but by 1950, its beautiful beaches and balmy weather had been rediscovered, and deve...

Reducere. Established by real estate developers Tracy E. Shoults and S. H. Woodruff in 1923, Hollywoodland was one of the first hillside developments built i...

Reducere. The first blush of spring finds Melinda filled with great expectations and high-flying goals. The charming farm and its critters are finally hers f...

Reducere. Bellport Village, with its beautiful historic homes and sweeping views of the Great South Bay, has remained a thriving community through the years,...

Reducere. On a summer day in 1893, little Maggie Sheffield was murdered. Maggie's own father did the unthinkable against a backdrop of laughter and barrel or...

Reducere. Rebels and King's Men documents the contributions of Bertie citizens to the war effort and chronicles their service and sacrifices. Men from the co...

Reducere. Left out of the national apology and reconciliation process begun in 2008, survivors of residential schools in Labrador and Newfoundland received a...

The 2nd edition of Public History: A Practical Guide provides a fresh examination of history as practiced in its various worldly guises and context...

Reducere. DescriptionSuspended Apocalypse is a rich and provocative meditation on the emergence of the Filipino American as a subject of history. Culling fro...

Reducere. On a summer day in 1893, little Maggie Sheffield was murdered. Maggie's own father did the unthinkable against a backdrop of laughter and barrel or...

Reducere. At the turn of the 20th century, the neighborhood known as Jackson Heights was originally called Trains Meadow, a sprawling area covered by acres o...

Reducere. The great blizzard of 1978 is an event seared in the memory of anyone who lived through it. Most of Greater Boston was quickly overwhelmed by the s...

Reducere. Mount Airy got its name from William Allen's 1750 summer estate, eight miles from Philadelphia. For much of its early history, Mount Airy remained ...

Reducere. Stony Brook is remarkable for the abundance of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century buildings still in use. Much of the old hamlet remains in the str...

Reducere. This is a biography of a borderland between Russia and Poland, a region where, in 1925, people identified as Poles, Germans, Jews, Ukrainians, and ...

This Way Madness Lies is a thought-provoking exploration of the history of madness and its treatment as seen through the lens of its proverbial hom...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Donald A. RitchieDoing Oral History is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historia...

Description-Nostalgic photographs that celebrate the lost freedom of children playing on the street Half a century ago, 'playing out' was expected ...

DescriptionAnyone with a connection to Rocky Ford, Colorado will enjoy over 500 historical and modern photographs collected from the public library...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this lavishly illustrated large coffee-table volume, writer Gorny and photographer Rosikon embarked on a two year investigative journ...

Reducere. DescriptionAt the mouth of Sandusky Bay on Lake Erie sits the city of Sandusky, Ohio. Described in a 1940 Life magazine article as "perhaps most ne...

Reducere. St. Augustine conjures up images of Spanish architecture, a massive fort, splashes of color against a backdrop of river and ocean, and always, alwa...

DescriptionIn the Shadow of Genius is the newest book by photographer and author Barbara Mensch. The author combines her striking photographs with ...

The Rose Bowl is best known for playing host to the granddaddy of them all the much anticipated major college football game held every January 1. I...

You know you need to get the word out. But where do you start? How do you keep track of everything? Don't work harder--work smarter. The key is to ...

Reducere. From the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s, a group of transgender people on both sides of the Atlantic created communities that profoundl...

Though the terms "queer" and "Mennonite" rarely come into theoretical or cultural contact, over the last several decades writers and scholars in th...

Reducere. From the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s, a group of transgender people on both sides of the Atlantic created communities that profoundl...

Reducere. ABOUT THE BOOK"In Our Stories Lies Our Strength: Aging, Spirituality, and Narrative" is aimed at thoughtful older adults who are committed to aging...

DescriptionA fascinating exploration of the rich oral traditions of Southern Appalachia, and the latest volume in the classic, multi-million-copy-s...

As soon as US media and politicians became aware of AIDS in the early 1980s, fingers were pointed not only at the gay community but also at other c...

Reducere. Linked data has become a punchline in certain circles of the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) community, derided as a much-hyped ...