Thad Sitton
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 621808 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Thad Sitton |
| NOMBRES | Thad |
| APELLIDO | Sitton |
| FIRMA | SITTON T |
| AFILIACIONES | Dominican College of Blauvelt |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Freedom Colonies
Freedom Colonies
In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African Americans achieved a remarkable victory—they got their own land. While other ex-slaves and many poor whites became trapped in the exploitative sharecropping system, these independence-seeking individuals settled on pockets of unclaimed land that had been deemed too poor for farming and turned them into successful family farms. In these self-sufficient rural communities, often kno…
Harder than Hardscrabble
The Texas Sheriff
Nameless Towns
Journal Article Nameless Towns: Texas Sawmill Communities, 1880–1942 and The Texas Red River Country: The Official Surveys of the Headwaters, 1876 Get access Nameless Towns: Texas Sawmill Communities, 1880–1942. By Sitton Thad Conrad James H.. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. xiii + 257 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $37.50, cloth; $18.95, paper.)The Texas Red River Country: The Official Surveys of the Headwaters, 1876. E…
Nameless Towns
Nameless Towns
Introduction Chapter Two. Panoramas Chapter Three. Feudal Towns Chapter Four. The Cornbread Whistle Chapter Five. Dancing on the Millpond Chapter Six. Cut and Get Out Notes Bibliography Index
From Can See to Can't
Nameless Towns
Journal Article Nameless Towns: Texas Sawmill Communitiesy 1880–1942. By Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. xiv, 257 pp. Cloth, $37.50, ISBN 0-292-77725-6. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-292-77726-4.) Get access Steven A. Reich Steven A. Reich James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, Dece…
From Can See to Can't
Journal Article From Can See to Cant: Texas Cotton Farmers on the Southern Prairies. By Thad Sitton and Dan K. Utley. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. xii, 316 pp. Cloth, $25.00, ISBN 0-292-77720-5. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-292-77721-3.) Get access David Vaught David Vaught Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, De…
Backwoodsmen
Backwoodsmen
Backwoodsmen
Journal Article Backwoodsmen: Stockmen and Hunters along a Big Thicket River Valley. By Thad Sitton. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. xiv, 310 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8061-2742-2.) Get access David L. Kimbrough David L. Kimbrough Stanford, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 222–223, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945545 Published: 01 J…
Ringing the Children in
Penology for Profit
Journal Article Penology For Profit: A History of the Texas Prison System, 1867–1912 and Texas High Sheriffs Get access Penology For Profit: A History of the Texas Prison System, 1867–1912. By Walker Donald R.. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1988. 216 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $24.50.Texas High Sheriffs. By Sitton Thad. (Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1988. Illustrations, bibliographical notes. $17.95.)…
Ringing the Children In
Ringing the Children in
Journal Article Ringing the Children In: Texas Country Schools Get access Ringing the Children In: Texas Country Schools. By Sitton Thad Rowold Milam C.. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1987. xiii + 240 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $16.95.) Kathleen Underwood Kathleen Underwood University of Texas at Arlington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, V…
Every Sun That Rises
Pursuing the Past
Oral History
The Rise of Cultural Journalism
Oral Life History
Additional informationNotes on contributorsThad SittonThad Sitton teaches in the Division of Education at Dominican College in New Orleans
Black History from the Community
Public history has been defined as historical research conducted in the community for public benefit, outside of academic environs; and in the sometimes conservative world of scholarly historiography, it represents a genuine innovation.' Several graduate training programs in public history now are in existence,2 and in 1978 a scholarly journal, The Public Historian, began publication (through the Department of History of the University of Califor…
Inside School Spaces
School designs are symbolic of expectations for schools, and for their pupils
Fieldwork Training In The Public Schools
Foxfire was the prototype classroom "cultural journalism" project. It had its beginnings in the ninth and tenth grade English classes of Eliot Wigginton, in the Rabun Gap community of Appalachian Georgia. Frustrated to the point of desperation by the curricular status quo, Wigginton and his students launched into a publication dedicated to the discovery, collection and preservation of the traditional culture and folklore of Southern Appalachia. W…
Oral Life History
Additional informationNotes on contributorsThad SittonThad Sitton teaches in the Division of Education at Dominican College in New Orleans
Inside School Spaces
School designs are symbolic of expectations for schools, and for their pupils
The Caldwell County Project
INITIATED IN 1976, the Caldwell County Tri-Cultural Oral History Project received its primary financial support from successive grants from the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA), with supplementary funding from the Texas Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts.? In retrospect, the initial ESAA grant seems rather unusual. As its name implies, ESAA normally supports schools and school-based programs, but in 1976 …
Oral History Tells Its Own Story
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGeorge L. MehaffyGeorge L. Mehaffy and Thad Sitton teach in the College of Education at the University of Texas, Austin.Thad SittonGeorge L. Mehaffy and Thad Sitton teach in the College of Education at the University of Texas, Austin
The Pedagogy of Cultural Shock
Additional informationNotes on contributorsThad Edward SittonThad E. Sitton is a teaching assistant and doctoral candidate in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas in Austin
Oral History Tells Its Own Story
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGeorge L. MehaffyGeorge L. Mehaffy and Thad Sitton teach in the College of Education at the University of Texas, Austin.Thad SittonGeorge L. Mehaffy and Thad Sitton teach in the College of Education at the University of Texas, Austin
The Descendants of Foxfire
Fieldwork Training In The Public Schools
Foxfire was the prototype classroom "cultural journalism" project. It had its beginnings in the ninth and tenth grade English classes of Eliot Wigginton, in the Rabun Gap community of Appalachian Georgia. Frustrated to the point of desperation by the curricular status quo, Wigginton and his students launched into a publication dedicated to the discovery, collection and preservation of the traditional culture and folklore of Southern Appalachia. W…
The Caldwell County Project
INITIATED IN 1976, the Caldwell County Tri-Cultural Oral History Project received its primary financial support from successive grants from the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA), with supplementary funding from the Texas Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts.? In retrospect, the initial ESAA grant seems rather unusual. As its name implies, ESAA normally supports schools and school-based programs, but in 1976 …
Windows into Time
Additional informationNotes on contributorsThad SittonDuring 1977-1978, Thad Sitton was employed as a curriculum specialist for the Caldwell County Oral History Project in Lockhart, Texas. He is presently an assistant professor of education at St. Mary’s Dominican College in New Orleans, Louisiana
Inside School Spaces
School designs are symbolic of expectations for schools, and for their pupils
Oral Life History
Additional informationNotes on contributorsThad SittonThad Sitton teaches in the Division of Education at Dominican College in New Orleans
Black History from the Community
Public history has been defined as historical research conducted in the community for public benefit, outside of academic environs; and in the sometimes conservative world of scholarly historiography, it represents a genuine innovation.' Several graduate training programs in public history now are in existence,2 and in 1978 a scholarly journal, The Public Historian, began publication (through the Department of History of the University of Califor…
Oral History
The Rise of Cultural Journalism
Pursuing the Past
Every Sun That Rises
Ringing the Children In
Ringing the Children in
Journal Article Ringing the Children In: Texas Country Schools Get access Ringing the Children In: Texas Country Schools. By Sitton Thad Rowold Milam C.. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1987. xiii + 240 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $16.95.) Kathleen Underwood Kathleen Underwood University of Texas at Arlington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, V…
Ringing the Children in
Penology for Profit
Journal Article Penology For Profit: A History of the Texas Prison System, 1867–1912 and Texas High Sheriffs Get access Penology For Profit: A History of the Texas Prison System, 1867–1912. By Walker Donald R.. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1988. 216 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $24.50.Texas High Sheriffs. By Sitton Thad. (Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1988. Illustrations, bibliographical notes. $17.95.)…
Backwoodsmen
Backwoodsmen
Backwoodsmen
Journal Article Backwoodsmen: Stockmen and Hunters along a Big Thicket River Valley. By Thad Sitton. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. xiv, 310 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8061-2742-2.) Get access David L. Kimbrough David L. Kimbrough Stanford, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 222–223, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945545 Published: 01 J…
From Can See to Can't
Journal Article From Can See to Cant: Texas Cotton Farmers on the Southern Prairies. By Thad Sitton and Dan K. Utley. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. xii, 316 pp. Cloth, $25.00, ISBN 0-292-77720-5. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-292-77721-3.) Get access David Vaught David Vaught Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, De…
Nameless Towns
Introduction Chapter Two. Panoramas Chapter Three. Feudal Towns Chapter Four. The Cornbread Whistle Chapter Five. Dancing on the Millpond Chapter Six. Cut and Get Out Notes Bibliography Index
From Can See to Can't
Nameless Towns
Journal Article Nameless Towns: Texas Sawmill Communitiesy 1880–1942. By Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. xiv, 257 pp. Cloth, $37.50, ISBN 0-292-77725-6. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-292-77726-4.) Get access Steven A. Reich Steven A. Reich James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, Dece…
Nameless Towns
Journal Article Nameless Towns: Texas Sawmill Communities, 1880–1942 and The Texas Red River Country: The Official Surveys of the Headwaters, 1876 Get access Nameless Towns: Texas Sawmill Communities, 1880–1942. By Sitton Thad Conrad James H.. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. xiii + 257 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $37.50, cloth; $18.95, paper.)The Texas Red River Country: The Official Surveys of the Headwaters, 1876. E…
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