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How can studying local history deepen our understanding of larger historical forces?

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Karl Jacoby

Date Filmed

May 23, 2011

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Videos from Karl Jacoby

What are calendar sticks?
  • May 23, 2011
How can studying local history deepen our understanding of larger historical forces?
  • May 23, 2011
In what ways is the southern Arizona case study unique?
  • May 23, 2011
Who are you and what do you do?
  • May 23, 2011
Why did you decide to research the groups in southern Arizona?
  • May 23, 2011
What were the major environmental effects of U.S. westward expansion?
  • May 23, 2011
Why is it important to think critically about history and the past?
  • May 23, 2011
How has the U.S.-Mexico border changed since the nineteenth century?
  • May 23, 2011
What is Aravaipa Canyon like today?
  • May 23, 2011
Why did U.S. public opinion turn so sharply against the settlers in the aftermath of the Camp Grant attack?
  • May 23, 2011
What is oral history?
  • May 23, 2011
What do historians have to consider when they analyze Indian primary sources?
  • May 23, 2011
How is the Camp Grant attack remembered by Apache people today?
  • May 23, 2011
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