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Study Questions for History 240: Introduction to Public History - Week 11 - Prof. M. Doyle, Assignments of World History

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

Study questions for week 11 of history 240, introduction to public history, at ball state university. The questions cover topics such as editing and publishing, ronald reagan's views on history, and the democratization of history. Students are asked to identify duties performed by first-time editors, characterize the five steps in the publishing process, and analyze reagan's interpretation of historical events.

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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 11: Weds. 25 March
History Editing and Publishing
Gardner:
Daniel Greer, “Editors and Publishers: Making Books for Readers,” pp. 103-115:
1. When Greer became a first-time editor, he performed a variety of duties in his
position. Identify these duties.
2. Publishers and editors must complete five essential tasks when supervising a
finished manuscript from acquisition through publication and distribution. Greer
calls this staging a strategy. Identify and characterize these five steps.
Wallace:
“Ronald Reagan and the Politics of History,” pp. 249-268:
1. According to the author, in what way did the Reagan administration attempt to
change how Americans regarded the Vietnam War and why?
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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 11: Weds. 25 March History Editing and Publishing Gardner: Daniel Greer, “Editors and Publishers: Making Books for Readers,” pp. 103-115:

  1. When Greer became a first-time editor, he performed a variety of duties in his position. Identify these duties.
  2. Publishers and editors must complete five essential tasks when supervising a finished manuscript from acquisition through publication and distribution. Greer calls this staging a strategy. Identify and characterize these five steps. Wallace: “Ronald Reagan and the Politics of History,” pp. 249-268:
  3. According to the author, in what way did the Reagan administration attempt to change how Americans regarded the Vietnam War and why?
  1. What was Ronald Reagan's attitude toward World War II and the Holocaust?
  2. How did Reagan justify his administration's support for the Nicaraguan contras?
  3. Describe how the Reagan administration interpreted history to further their cause for cutting the size of the federal government.
  4. Why did Reagan not support a holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.?
  5. Identify the three main types of critics who excoriated President Reagan for his repeated historical inaccuracies.
  6. What is the author's opinion of Reagan's historical indiscretions?
  7. How are mythmakers similar to historians, in Wallace's view?
  8. How did Reagan's interpretation of John Winthrop's 17th-century sermon [reprinted in this week's Course Packet reading assignment] differ from that of the Puritan leader's original intent?
  1. Identify the five explanations Wallace proposes for the widespread acceptance of Ronald Reagan's views of history by the American people.
  2. On the other hand, why does Wallace believe that President Reagan was at times unsuccessful in changing public opinion on certain issues?
  3. How does Wallace suggest going about obtaining a "politics of organized remembrance" in opposition to the propagation of historical myth about our nation's past?
  4. Describe how a more accurate collective memory of the Vietnam conflict might be fostered and why, in Wallace's view, the present is a good time to begin promoting one. Course Packet [handout to be distributed on Week 1]: Brent Tarter, “Editing Public Records,” in Public History: An Introduction ed. Barbara J. Howe and Emory L. Kemp (Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Pub. Co., 1988), pp. 70-83:
  5. In his opening paragraph, Tarter claims that the first generation of 19th-century historians “laid the foundation for historical scholarship.” How did they do that?
  6. How did this, in the author’s words, “democratize the study of history”?
  1. According to Tarter, in what way can editing and publishing documentary collections serve to preserve those materials?
  2. What does Tarter consider to be two “important goals for the editors of public documents”?
  3. What are the author’s four criteria or objectives for deciding what to edit and publish?
  4. What is meant by the term “annotation” as used by the author?
  5. Identify all of the steps involved in preparing a documentary edition up through publication process.
  6. One of the editors quoted by Tarter states that “an editor must have the mind of a scholar and the soul of a clerk.” What did he mean by this statement?
  7. What are the consequences if an editor does not exhibit these qualities (enumerated in the answer to Question 10) in his/her volume?