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Business and Corporate History - Assignment Questions - Spring 2009 | HIST 240, Assignments of World History

Ball State University (BSU)World History
Prof. M. Doyle

Material Type: Assignment; Professor: Doyle; Class: Introduction to Public History.; Subject: HISTORY; University: Ball State University; Term: Spring 2009;

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Dr. Michael Wm. Doyle Office Phone: 765-285-8732
Ball State University Fax: 765-285-5612
Department of History E-Mail: mwdoyle@bsu.edu
Burkhardt Bldg. 213 Home Page: www.bsu.edu/web/mwdoyle/hist_240
Muncie, IN 47306-0480 Office Hrs.: Thurs., 2:00-4:00 P.M. & by appt.
HISTORY 240 / Sec. 1: INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HISTORY
Spring Semester 2009
READING ASSIGNMENT STUDY QUESTIONS
Week 14: Weds. 15 April
Business/Corporate History; Entrepreneurial History; Public History Ethics
Gardner:
Elizabeth W. Adkins, “In Businesses and Corporations:
Serving as the Corporate Memory,” pp. 371-384:
1. According to Adkins, what is one major benefit to working as an archivist or
historian in a corporate setting?
2. What, on the other hand, is a key disadvantage of working in corporate history
or archival departments?
3. What was the first recognized archives program in the United States sponsored
by a large corporation and when was it established?
4. To whom or what does a corporate-sponsored historian or archivist owe first
loyalty? How might this relationship conflict with one's professional training?
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Dr. Michael Wm. Doyle Office Phone: 765-285- Ball State University Fax: 765-285- Department of History E-Mail: mwdoyle@bsu.edu Burkhardt Bldg. 213 Home Page: www.bsu.edu/web/mwdoyle/hist_ Muncie, IN 47306-0480 Office Hrs.: Thurs., 2:00-4:00 P.M. & by appt.

HISTORY 240 / Sec. 1: INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HISTORY

Spring Semester 2009 READING ASSIGNMENT STUDY QUESTIONS Week 14: Weds. 15 April Business/Corporate History; Entrepreneurial History; Public History Ethics Gardner: Elizabeth W. Adkins, “In Businesses and Corporations: Serving as the Corporate Memory,” pp. 371-384:

  1. According to Adkins, what is one major benefit to working as an archivist or historian in a corporate setting?
  2. What, on the other hand, is a key disadvantage of working in corporate history or archival departments?
  3. What was the first recognized archives program in the United States sponsored by a large corporation and when was it established?
  4. To whom or what does a corporate-sponsored historian or archivist owe first loyalty? How might this relationship conflict with one's professional training?
  1. What types of activities are typically performed by an archival program within a corporation?
  2. What potential problems are posed by public access within a corporate archival program and how are these handled differently from a traditional research collection?
  3. What role does the quest for historical accuracy play when conducting research within a corporate archives as an employee? Gardner: Philip L. Cantelon, “As a Business: Hired, Not Bought,” pp. 385-395 :
  4. Cantelon mentions seven personal attributes that historical consultants should aspire to exhibit in pursuing such an occupation. What are they?
  5. Identify the four areas in which entrepreneurial historians typically find their skills to be most in demand.
  6. Which types of professionals are most often drawn to seek private consulting contracts with the government agencies or history organizations?
  1. How did the museum in Paterson, N.J., interpret the Great Strike of 1913? What changes would Wallace have made to the exhibit?
  2. How could the foreign policy dimension of deindustrialization be exhibited?
  3. What is the most obvious obstacle to designing an exhibition that treated deindustrialization in all of its complexity? How does Wallace suggest it should be accomplished?
  4. Describe the problems Wallace sees in the way labor history is interpreted at Discovery Hall in South Bend, Ind.
  5. Why does Wallace think labor groups, outraged community leaders, and other local citizens in deindustrialized areas would be more likely to support an exhibit on deindustrialization?
  6. What methods does the Youngstown, Oh., exhibit use to interpret the rise and decline of the steel industry in that community?
  7. What was the Pittsburgh Regional History Center planning to include in its exhibits on the steel industry? How will it differ from the Youngstown exhibit?

Course Packet [handout distributed in class on week 2]: Ruth Ann Overbeck, “History as a Business,” Public History: An Introduction ed. Barbara J. Howe and Emory L. Kemp (Malabar, Fla: Krieger, 1988), pp. 440-452:

  1. This essay is about historians who set themselves up as businesspersons, i.e., freelance consultants for hire. Overbeck explains that one of the avenues available to non-academically based historians is what she calls “entrepreneurial history.” What does she mean by this term?
  2. Which fields of history are represented in this career area?
  3. Who are likely to be the clients of such firms?
  4. Overbeck tells us that other, more traditional historians object to the whole idea of “entrepreneurial history.” What exactly are their objections?
  5. How does Overbeck respond to this criticism?
  6. What does she have to say about the subject of ethics as it pertains to entrepreneurial historians?