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Cultural Literacy, Historic Preservation, and Commemoration: Some Thoughts for Educational Historians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

William W. Cutler III
William W. Cutler III*
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Temple University
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 40 , Issue 4 , Winter 2000 , pp. 477 - 482
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Copyright © 2000 by the History of Education Society 

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References

1 For a thoughtful and humorous commentary on the art of public performance by professional historians, see Limerick, Patricia Nelson “A How-to Guide for the Academic Going Public,“ Perspectives: American Historical Association Newsletter 37 (December 1999), 1, 17–21.Google Scholar

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