Otis Graham - National Council on Public History

Key Terms: urban, suburbia, cities
Abstract:
“Suburbia has long held a place in the gallery of intellectuals’ special demons,” writes William
R. Barnes, “It has been deplored, derided, denounced, and only occasionally defended. These
four books [reviewed here] instead treat suburbs and suburban development as phenomena to be
understood”(67). Focusing on the residential aspect of suburban development, these four works
were published in 1987 or 1988. Borderland offers a valuable analysis “of the ideas, values,
visions and choices that undergirded the development of these landscapes and the reactions to
them” (68). Bourgeois Utopias is a rich and provocative work that is an essay of synthesis. The
Rise of the community Builders and Building Chicago began as dissertations. (Abstract by Tory
Swim)
Author(s): Richard J. Cox
Article Title: Review Essay: Textbooks, Archival Education, and the Archival Profession
Review of: Managing Archives and Archival Institutions by James Gregory Bradsher;
Researcher’s Guide to Archives and Regional History Sources edited by John C. Larsen;
Keeping Archives edited by Ann Pederson
Special issue or section title:
Volume: 12
Issue: 2
Season/Year: Spring, 1990
Pages: 73-81
Key Terms: archives, graduate education, archival administration
Abstract:
Since the mid-1970s, publications on archival administration have greatly increased due to
efforts of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) and the rapid increase in graduate level
courses in archives. For this review essay, Richard J. Cox reviews three works published in the
late-1980s. Researcher’s Guide to Archives and Regional History Sources, although covering
broad subject matter and a useful collection of essays, fails as a researcher’s guide and would be
of little use in a graduate archival education course. Managing Archives and Archival
Institutions, a better publication, includes a very comprehensive range yet many of the essays are
conservative and dated and the volume suffers from poor organization. Keeping Archives, despite
some weaknesses, is the closest publication that could serve as a basic textbook for a graduate
archival education course. (Abstract by Tory Swim)
Author(s): Barton J. Bernstein
Article Title: Review Essay: An Analysis of “Two Cultures”: Writing About the Making and
the Using of the Atomic Bombs
Review of: The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Special issue or section title:
Volume: 12
Issue: 2
Season/Year: Spring, 1990
Pages: 83-107
Key Terms: World War II, atomic bomb
Abstract: