Author: Thomas A. Mason
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2024-06-02
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 1538182637
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Writing Local History Today guides local historians through the process of researching, writing, and publishing their work. Thomas A. Mason and J. Kent Calder present step-by-step advice to guide aspiring authors to a successful publication and focus not only on how to write well but also how to market and sell their work. Highlights include: Discussion of how to identify an audience for your writing project Tips for effective research and planning Sample documents, such as contracts and requests for proposals Tips and guidance for working with publishers Discussion of how to use social media to leverage your publication Discussion of the benefits and drawbacks to self-publishing The second edition updates literature, databases, and websites in the field This guide is useful for first-time authors who need help with this sometimes-daunting process, or for previously published historians who need a quick reference or timely tips.
Author: David Dymond
Publisher:
Published: 2016-02-06
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781859362303
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gavin McLean
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780908912186
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The author is the historian for the Historic Places Trust. This guide is designed to point people in the right direction, as an introduction to a vast subject. It is also intended to provide some guidance to local historians. The bulk of the book contains three chapters briefly covering research, writing and publishing of local histories."--Publisher's description.
Author: Carol Kammen
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780759102538
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Completely revised and updated edition of the guide for local historians.
Author: Bob Trubshaw
Publisher: Heart of Albion Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781872883595
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book guides even complete novices through all the stages needed to produce and promote books, booklets, magazines, CD-ROMS and Web sites on local and family history. For those who are not novices the information will also act as a checklist for producing professional-looking publications.
Author: Carol Kammen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2014-04-04
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 0759123713
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For over thirty years, Carol Kammen’s On Doing Local History has been a valuable guide to professional and “amateur” historians alike. First published in 1986, revised in 2003, this book offers not only discussion of practical matters, but also a deeper reflection on local, public history, what it means, and why it is done. It is used in classrooms and found on the shelves of local historians across the U.S. The third edition features: Updates to chapters that focus on the current concerns and situation of local historians A new chapter on how the field of history cooperates with other arts A new chapter on writing a congregational history Updated references With the same passion (and now even more experience) that drove her to write the first edition, Kammen has brought her seminal work into today’s context for the next generation of local historians. The new edition ensures that this classic will continue to move anyone interested in public history towards a better understanding of why they do what they do and how it benefits their communities.
Author: Beth Cody
Publisher:
Published: 2019-10-28
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781733842105
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There's something about vintage garden photos: preserved moments of beauty from gardens long gone. Iowa Gardens of the Past features 300+ color and grayscale images of beautiful Iowa gardens, together with lovely seed catalog art, from the mid-nineteenth century through 1980. From impressive mansion grounds to humble flower-filled farmsteads, they include: Victorian-style flower bedding; formal rose gardens; exotic Japanese-style gardens; midcentury modern landscaping. Discover how Iowans coped with severe weather events, economic depressions, world wars, grasshopper plagues and Dutch Elm Disease. Despite these challenges, Iowans have made countless gardens of great beauty. Now these gardens can be admired and enjoyed once again, in these hauntingly beautiful images of Iowa Gardens of the Past.
Author: A. Curthoys
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0230304966
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawn from decades of experience, this is a concise and highly practical guide to writing history. Aimed at all kinds of people who write history academic historians, public historians, professional historians, family historians and students of all levels the book includes a wide range of examples from many genres and styles.
Author: Will Carpenter
Publisher: Will Carpenter
Published: 2009-02-06
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0615272711
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From Philadelphia's Revolutionary-era architecture to Albuquerque's adobe, the story of America is told in its neighborhoods. The Second Edition of The Life and Times Of...: Researching and Writing American Local History places a greater emphasis on those communities - how those neighborhoods and communities, as well as the families that created and occupied them, made contributions that had a global impact, expanding on the themes found in the First Edition. The history we write today is our calling card to future generations. It deserves good research. Using plain language instead of jargon, and with instructions instead of theory, "The Life and Times Of..." demonstrates professional techniques that the family and local historian can use in critical areas of their research.