Joan M Zenzen
Biographic Data
| ID | 793678 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan M Zenzen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan M |
| FAMILY NAME | Zenzen |
| SIGNATURE | ZENZEN J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Independent Public Historian |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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Grey Literature and Untold Stories
Book Review| May 01 2019 Grey Literature and Untold Stories: United States National Park Service Studies on LGBTQ History, Reconstruction, and the Civil War to Civil Rights Commemoration LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer History edited by Megan E. Springate. Washington, DC: National Park Foundation, 2016. 2 vols. xv + 624 pp. and 638 pp.; illustrations, notes, appendix, index; https://www.nps.gov/subjec…
Why Administrative Histories Matter
This article chronicles the history of administrative histories within the National Park Service. Administrative histories describe the history of a site or a group of parks. They can be important resources for management decisions. Managers, however, often do not know about or pay attention to these documents. Some managers have even threatened the intellectual integrity of these histories. Despite these issues, administrative histories matter: …
Administrative Histories
Research Article| May 01 2009 Administrative Histories: Writing about Fort Stanwix National Monument Joan M. Zenzen Joan M. Zenzen Independent historian based in Rockville, Maryland, who writes histories of the federal government. She has most recently completed an administrative history of Minute Man National Historical Park (Massachusetts). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2009) 31 …
Battling for Manassas
Journal Article Battling for Manassas: The Fifty-Year Preservation Struggle at Manassas National Battlefield Park. By Joan M. Zenzen. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998 and Possessed by the Past: The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History. By David Lowenthal. New York: Free Press, 1996 Get access Barbie Zelizer Barbie Zelizer University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author o…
Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal
This work looks at the origin and development of the government-owned reactors that produce weapons-grade plutonium and tritium. The authors describe a 50-year US government effort no less complex, expensive, and technologically demanding than the Polaris or Apollo programmes. The evolution of the early reactors is described, as is the weapons establishment that surrounded them, and the sometimes bitter struggles between business and political co…
Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal
by type 5 Power level upgrades of production reactors 6 Reactor closings during the plutonium glut period, 1964
Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal
Journal Article Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal: American Production Reactors, 1942–1992. By Rodney P. Carlisle with Joan M. Zenzen. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xvi, 275 pp. $48.00, ISBN 0-8018-5207-2.) Get access Rip Bulkeley Rip Bulkeley Oxford, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Page 728, https://doi.org/10.2307/29…
The history of a myth
The History of a Myth Joan M. Zenzen (bio) The West. Produced by Stephen Ives and Ken Burns. Distributed by Time-Life Video and Television, 1996. 12.5 hours, 9 episodes. “Over the centuries, the West has been the repository of the dreams of an astonishing variety of people—and it is has been on the long, dusty roads of the West that those dreams have crisscrossed and collided, transforming all who traveled along them, rewarding some while disappo…
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Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal
Journal Article Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal: American Production Reactors, 1942–1992. By Rodney P. Carlisle with Joan M. Zenzen. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xvi, 275 pp. $48.00, ISBN 0-8018-5207-2.) Get access Rip Bulkeley Rip Bulkeley Oxford, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Page 728, https://doi.org/10.2307/29…
The history of a myth
The History of a Myth Joan M. Zenzen (bio) The West. Produced by Stephen Ives and Ken Burns. Distributed by Time-Life Video and Television, 1996. 12.5 hours, 9 episodes. “Over the centuries, the West has been the repository of the dreams of an astonishing variety of people—and it is has been on the long, dusty roads of the West that those dreams have crisscrossed and collided, transforming all who traveled along them, rewarding some while disappo…
Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal
by type 5 Power level upgrades of production reactors 6 Reactor closings during the plutonium glut period, 1964
Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal
This work looks at the origin and development of the government-owned reactors that produce weapons-grade plutonium and tritium. The authors describe a 50-year US government effort no less complex, expensive, and technologically demanding than the Polaris or Apollo programmes. The evolution of the early reactors is described, as is the weapons establishment that surrounded them, and the sometimes bitter struggles between business and political co…
Battling for Manassas
Journal Article Battling for Manassas: The Fifty-Year Preservation Struggle at Manassas National Battlefield Park. By Joan M. Zenzen. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998 and Possessed by the Past: The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History. By David Lowenthal. New York: Free Press, 1996 Get access Barbie Zelizer Barbie Zelizer University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author o…
Administrative Histories
Research Article| May 01 2009 Administrative Histories: Writing about Fort Stanwix National Monument Joan M. Zenzen Joan M. Zenzen Independent historian based in Rockville, Maryland, who writes histories of the federal government. She has most recently completed an administrative history of Minute Man National Historical Park (Massachusetts). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2009) 31 …
Why Administrative Histories Matter
This article chronicles the history of administrative histories within the National Park Service. Administrative histories describe the history of a site or a group of parks. They can be important resources for management decisions. Managers, however, often do not know about or pay attention to these documents. Some managers have even threatened the intellectual integrity of these histories. Despite these issues, administrative histories matter: …
Grey Literature and Untold Stories
Book Review| May 01 2019 Grey Literature and Untold Stories: United States National Park Service Studies on LGBTQ History, Reconstruction, and the Civil War to Civil Rights Commemoration LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer History edited by Megan E. Springate. Washington, DC: National Park Foundation, 2016. 2 vols. xv + 624 pp. and 638 pp.; illustrations, notes, appendix, index; https://www.nps.gov/subjec…
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