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Nearby history : exploring the past around you
2010
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Nearby History shows that any literate person can master historical research techniques. Each chapter describes methods for collecting and using evidence from a person's nearby world--written documents, oral testimony, visual objects, buildings, photographs, physical landscapes--for historical studies of families, neighborhoods, institutions, and communities as a whole. After presenting the case for doing nearby history, the authors offer suggestions for possible subjects for such study. In the last chapter, they show how each unique community, local institution, physical structure, and family is linked to a universal sharing of origin, motivation, design, and behavior. Of particular value are the several appendixes: forms to request information from federal agencies, such as veterans records, passenger ship arrival data, census records, and land entry files; sample gift agreements, including historical materials and oral history agreements; sources of archival storage products and information; and uses of the Web for doing nearby history. In summary, this book is a "must have" for any person seeking to master the methodology for capturing local history. All collections. R. E. Marcello; University of North Texas
Summary
Someone has been watching D.A. Rachel Knight--someone who's Rachel's equal in brains, but with more malicious intentions. It began when a near-impossible case fell into Rachel's lap, the suspectless homicide of a homeless man. In the face of courthouse backbiting and a gauzy web of clues, Rachel is determined to deliver justice. She's got back-up: tough-as-nails Detective Bailey Keller. As Rachel and Bailey stir things up, they're shocked to uncover a connection with the vicious murder of an LAPD cop a year earlier. Something tells Rachel someone knows the truth, someone who'd kill to keep it secret.

Harrowing, smart, and riotously entertaining, GUILT BY DEGREES is a thrilling ride through the world of LA courts with the unforgettable Rachel Knight.
Table of Contents
Preface to the Third Editionp. vii
Acknowledgmentsp. xiii
1Why Nearby History?p. 1
2What Can Be Done Nearby?p. 17
3Traces and Storytellingp. 45
4Published Documentsp. 61
5Unpublished Documentsp. 91
6Oral Documentsp. 113
7Visual Documentsp. 133
8Artifactsp. 159
9Landscapes and Buildingsp. 177
10Preserving Material Tracesp. 193
11Research, Writing, and Leaving a Recordp. 211
12Linking the Particular and the Universalp. 227
Appendices
AForms to Request Information from Federal Agenciesp. 259
BSample Gift Agreementsp. 263
CSources of Archival Storage Products and Informationp. 267
DUsing the World Wide Web (WWW) in Nearby Historyp. 269
Indexp. 273
About the Authorsp. 283
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