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Otis Graham - National Council on Public History

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Pages: 61-81<br />

Key Terms: artifacts; housework; material culture; material feminism; social history; women’s<br />

history<br />

Abstract:<br />

Material artifacts are a valuable resource in helping social historians understand how change over<br />

time impacted the daily lives of individuals and their families. What’s more, material culture may<br />

be the most objective source of informati<strong>on</strong> available c<strong>on</strong>cerning America’s past, and the best<br />

means of understanding marginalized groups who left few written records. Specialists in<br />

women’s studies interested in the household and the arts of housewifery can find the examinati<strong>on</strong><br />

of material artifacts particularly useful. Basing historical research <strong>on</strong> artifactual evidence offers<br />

social historians numerous and compelling reas<strong>on</strong>s to “doing history with the dirt <strong>on</strong> it.”<br />

(Abstract by Susan Falck)<br />

REVIEWS<br />

5-1<br />

Reviewer: Larry Schweikart<br />

Review type: Book<br />

Title: The Papers of George Catlett Marshall, Volume I: 'The Soldierly Spirit' December 1880-<br />

June 1939<br />

Author: Larry I. Bland; Shar<strong>on</strong> Ritenour, editors<br />

Publisher: John Hopkins University Press<br />

<strong>Public</strong>ati<strong>on</strong> date: 1981<br />

Volume: 5<br />

Issue: 1<br />

Seas<strong>on</strong>/year: Winter 1983<br />

Pages: 82-84<br />

Key terms: George Catlett Marshall<br />

Reviewer: Michelle Togut<br />

Review type: Book<br />

Title: America and the Survivors of the Holocaust<br />

Author: Le<strong>on</strong>ard Dinnerstein<br />

Publisher: Columbia University Press<br />

<strong>Public</strong>ati<strong>on</strong> date: 1982<br />

Volume: 5<br />

Issue: 1<br />

Seas<strong>on</strong>/year: Winter 1983<br />

Pages: 84-87<br />

Key terms: Jewish history, Holocaust<br />

Reviewer: Steven F. Laws<strong>on</strong><br />

Review type: Book<br />

Title: The Civil Rights Injuncti<strong>on</strong><br />

Author: Owen M. Fiss<br />

Publisher: Indiana University Press<br />

<strong>Public</strong>ati<strong>on</strong> date: 1978

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