Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back

Contents

Acknowledgments vii introduction Just over Our Shoulder: The Pleasures and Perils of Writing the Recent Past renee c. romano and claire bond potter 1 part 1 Framing the Issues Not Dead Yet: My Identity Crisis as a Historian of the Recent Past renee c. romano 23 Working without a Script: Reflections on Teaching Recent American History shelley sang-hee lee 45 part 2 Access to the Archives Opening Archives on the Recent American Past: Reconciling the Ethics of Access and the Ethics of Privacy laura clark brown and nancy kaiser 59 Who Owns Your Archive? Historians and the Challenge of Intellectual Property Law gail drakes 83 part 3 Working with Living Subjects The Berkeley Compromise: Oral History, Human Subjects, and the Meaning of “Research” martin meeker 115 The Presence of the Past: Iconic Moments and the Politics of Interviewing in Birmingham willoughby anderson 139 Contents vi contents When Radical Feminism Talks Back: Taking an Ethnographic Turn in the Living Past claire bond potter 155 part 4 Technology and the Practice of Recent History Do Historians Watch Enough tv? Broadcast News as a Primary Source david greenberg 185 Playing the Past: The Video Game Simulation as Recent American History jeremy k. saucier 201 Eternal Flames: The Translingual Imperative in the Study of World War II Memories alice yang and alan s. christy 225 part 5 Crafting Narratives When the Present Disrupts the Past: Narrating Home Care eileen boris and jennifer klein 249 “Cult” Knowledge: The Challenges of Studying New Religious Movements in America julius h. bailey 275 Contributors 295 Index 299 ...