Donald A Ritchie
Biographic Data
| ID | 989053 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald A Ritchie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald A |
| FAMILY NAME | Ritchie |
| SIGNATURE | RITCHIE D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | United States Senate Library |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Giving a Voice to the Oppressed: The International Oral History Association, Between Political Movements and Academic Networks
Giving a Voice to the Oppressed: The International Oral History Association, Between Political Movements and Academic Networks." The Oral History Review, 47(2), pp. 363–364
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
In this uncharacteristically slim book, journalist and biographer Robert A. Caro explains how he went about producing his award-winning biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ). Havi
Crusader for Democracy: The Political Life of William Allen White
Shaping Institutional Memory
In the wake of the Watergate scandal, the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. urged the leaders of the U.S. Senate to do more about opening the records of the legislative branch. His appeal led to the creation of the Senate Historical Office in 1975 and indirectly in 1983 to its counterpart in the House of Representatives. The two legislative bodies differ greatly in structure and traditions, and their separate historical offices have also evolve…
Small Town America in World War II: War Stories from Wrightsville, Pennsylvania . By Ronald E. Marcello
" Small Town America in World War II: War Stories from Wrightsville, Pennsylvania. By Ronald E. Marcello." The Oral History Review, 41(2), pp. 387–388
Remembering in Later Life: Generating Individual and Social Change
Both oral history and what has come to be known as “reminiscence work” acquired a public profile around the same time, during the 1970s and early 1980s, in Europe and North America. This article focuses on the importance of remembrance in later life. For oral history, remembering is seen as a means to an end. By contrast, reminiscence work fixes on the process, the social interactions and changes brought about by engaging in remembering. Reminisc…
Case Study: Rome's House of Memory and History: The Politics of Memory and Public Institutions
This article centers around the case study of Rome's House of Memory and History to understand the politics of memory and public institutions. This case study is about the organization and politics of public memory: the House of Memory and History, established by the city of Rome in 2006, in the framework of an ambitious program of cultural policy. It summarizes the history of the House's conception and founding, describes its activities and the …
Disappointed Remains: Trauma, Testimony, and Reconciliation in Post-apartheid South Africa
The apartheid regime in South Africa and the fight against the same, followed by the reconciliation is the crux of this article. The first democratic elections held on April 27, 1994, were surprisingly free of violence. Then, in one of its first pieces of legislation, the new democratic parliament passed the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act of 1995, which created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. At the outset, the South …
Those Who Prevailed and Those Who Were Replaced: Interviewing on Both Sides of a Conflict
This article focuses on the ideas of interviewing on both sides of a conflict, those who prevailed and those who were replaced. It traces the political upheavals that raged Czechoslovakia after the Second World War to understand and analyze interviewing on both sides of a conflict. Czech historians who are investigating our country's contemporary history using oral history methodology have made research into the development of society during the …
Congress as publisher: Three perspectives
Private printers and the party press: What went on before the GPO
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historical Conversations on Her Life With John F. Kennedy
The Oxford handbook of oral history
'The Oxford Handbook of Oral History' brings together 40 authors on five continents to address the evolution of oral history, the impact of digital technology, the most recent methodological and archival issues and the application of oral history to both scholarly research and public presentations.
The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With The President
"The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With The President." The Oral History Review, 37(1), pp. 138–139
Oral History in a Wounded Country: Interactive Interviewing in South Africa
Cheney: The Untold Story of America’s Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President
"Cheney: The Untold Story of America’s Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President." The Oral History Review, 35(1), pp. 104–105
Reporting from Washington: The History Of The Washington Press Corps
Donald Ritchie here offers a vibrant chronicle of news coverage in our nation’s capital, from the early days of radio and print reporting and the heyday of the wire services to the brave new world of the Internet. Beginning with 1932, when a newly elected FDR energized the sleepy capital, Ritchie highlights the dramatic changes in journalism that have occurred in the last seven decades. We meet legendary columnists--including Walter Lippmann, Jos…
Introduction: Oral History in the Federal Government
The increasing fragmentation of historical study has stimulated interest in making history whole again. Thomas Bender has noted that although studies of class, race, and gender have revealed roles of groups traditionally excluded from American history, they have largely neglected the civic arena where groups interact. Other historians have encouraged interweaving of social history, political power, law, and state into new historical syntheses. Fo…
The American President
Just as the historical profession has essentially weaned itself from the presidential synthesis, pbs has been actively promoting presidential historians and presenting presidential documentaries, from episodes of American Experience to The American President. The latter tenpart series, first aired in April 2000, featured narration by Hugh Sidey and commentary by Richard Neustadt, along with such celebrity narrators as Tim Russert as Millard Fillm…
A Biography of America
Teaching survey courses in American history poses the daunting task of compressing and presenting several centuries of events, issues, and people in a package that students can grasp and retain meaningfully. A Biography of America admirably achieves these objectives in twenty-six half-hour programs on videocassette, accompanied by a textbook (Mary Beth Norton, A People and a Nation, 2001), teacher and student guides, and an interactive Web site .…
Reflections on Oral History in the New Millennium: Roundtable Comments
It is a rather daunting task that we have been assigned, particularly since the very word carries so much weight for those who inhabit the Western, Christian-influenced world. And with the proliferation of scholarly output on oral history, it is overwhelming to think, even fleetingly, about trying to synthesize these materials into a coherent statement that reflects our past, present and future and that is international in scope. So taking the pa…
Triumph of the Right: The Rise of the California Conservative Movement, 1945-1966
Journal Article Triumph of the Right: The Rise of the California Conservative Movement, 1945–1966 Get access Triumph of the Right: The Rise of the California Conservative Movement, 1945–1966. By Schuparra Kurt. (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1998. xxiv + 221 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Donald A. Ritchie Donald A. Ritchie United States Senate Historical Office Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Wester…
The Mild Voice of Reason: Deliberative Democracy and American National Government
Journal Article The Mild Voice of Reason: Deliberative Democracy and American National Government. By Joseph M. Bessette. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. xvi, 289 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-226-04423-8.) Get access Donald A. Ritchie Donald A. Ritchie U. S. Senate Historical Office, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Page 85…
The Critical Press and the New Deal: The Press versus Presidential Power, 1933-1938.
Journal Article The Critical Press and the New Deal: The Press versus Presidential Power, 1933–1938. By Gary Dean Best. (Westport: Praeger, 1993. xviil 198 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-275-94350-X.) Get access Donald A. Ritchie Donald A. Ritchie Senate Historical Office, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 777–778, https://doi.org/10…
Bronson M. Cutting: Progressive Politician
Journal Article Bronson M. Cutting: Progressive Politician Get access Bronson M. Cutting: Progressive Politician. By Lowitt Richard. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992. xiv + 418 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $50.00.) Donald A. Ritchie Donald A. Ritchie U. S. Senate Historical Office Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 2, …
Reporting from Washington: The History Of The Washington Press Corps
Donald Ritchie here offers a vibrant chronicle of news coverage in our nation’s capital, from the early days of radio and print reporting and the heyday of the wire services to the brave new world of the Internet. Beginning with 1932, when a newly elected FDR energized the sleepy capital, Ritchie highlights the dramatic changes in journalism that have occurred in the last seven decades. We meet legendary columnists--including Walter Lippmann, Jos…
Reforming the Regulatory Process: Why James Landis Changed His Mind
In our day, when the question of how and to what extent and by whom economic activity should be regulated is wide open as between legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government and a galaxy of highly developed private interest groups, the traditional Progressive idea of the just and all-wise commission as final arbiter seems dated. Mr. Ritchie shows that it was an idea to which James M. Landis clung enthusiastically, largely as a res…
Reflections on Oral History in the New Millennium: Roundtable Comments
It is a rather daunting task that we have been assigned, particularly since the very word carries so much weight for those who inhabit the Western, Christian-influenced world. And with the proliferation of scholarly output on oral history, it is overwhelming to think, even fleetingly, about trying to synthesize these materials into a coherent statement that reflects our past, present and future and that is international in scope. So taking the pa…
Lincoln Steffens
Journal Article Lincoln Steffens. By Robert Stinson. (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1979. viii + 168 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $9.95.) Get access David Chalmers David Chalmers University of Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 3, December 1980, Pages 723–724, https://doi.org/10.2307/1889948 Published: 01 December 1980
Reforming the Regulatory Process: Why James Landis Changed His Mind
In our day, when the question of how and to what extent and by whom economic activity should be regulated is wide open as between legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government and a galaxy of highly developed private interest groups, the traditional Progressive idea of the just and all-wise commission as final arbiter seems dated. Mr. Ritchie shows that it was an idea to which James M. Landis clung enthusiastically, largely as a res…
James M. Landis: Dean of the Regulators
Journal Article James M. Landis: Dean of the Regulators. By Donald A. Ritchie. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980. xiii + 267 pp. Illustration, notes, manuscripts, interviews and oral histories, and index. $15.00.) Get access Richard Polenberg Richard Polenberg Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 2, September 1981, Pages 431–432, https://…
Law, Reform, and the Modern Administrative State
Roosevelt and the Hundred Days: Struggle for the Early New Deal
Journal Article Roosevelt and the Hundred Days: Struggle for the Early New Deal. By James E. Sargent. (New York: Garland, 1981. xi + 355 pp. Notes and index. $45.00.) Get access Donald A. Ritchie Donald A. Ritchie Senate Historical Office Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 4, March 1983, Page 1022, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901276 Published: 01 March 1983
The Limits of Corruption
United States
DNA repair maintains genomic stability and the loss of DNA repair capacity results in genetic instability that may lead to a decline of cellular function. Adult stem cells are extremely important in the long-term maintenance of tissues throughout life. They regenerate and renew tissues in response to damage and replace senescent terminally differentiated cells that no longer function. Oxidative stress, toxic byproducts, reduced mitochondrial func…
Energy Policy in America since 1945: A Study of Business-Government Relations
Journal Article Energy Policy in America since 1945: A Study of Business-Government Relations. By Richard H. K. Vietor. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. xvii + 363 pp. Map, charts, tables, notes, and index. $29.95.) Get access Donald A. Ritchie Donald A. Ritchie Senate Historical Office Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 1, June 1985, Pages 192–193, h…
The Power of the Press
The Oral History Association After Twenty Years
Oral History in the Federal Government
Journal Article Oral History in the Federal Government Get access Donald A. Ritchie Donald A. Ritchie associate historian at the U.S. Senate Historical Office and president Oral History Association Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 2, September 1987, Pages 587–595, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900141 Published: 01 September 1987
The Loyalty of the Senate: ” Washington Correspondents in the Progressive Era
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDonald A. RitchieThe author is Associate Historian at the Historical Office of the United States Senate
A Disorderly House: The Brown-Unruh Years in Sacramento
Journal Article A Disorderly House: The Brown-Unruh Years in Sacramento Get access A Disorderly House: The Brown-Unruh Years in Sacramento. By Mills James R.. (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1987. 213 pp. Appendix, index. $17.95.) Donald A. Ritchie Donald A. Ritchie United States Senate Historical Office Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 20, Issue 1, February 1989, Page 81, http…
Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents
Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents
Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents
Donald Ritchie examines the lives of early, self-styled congressional journalists such as Horace Greeley, Emily Briggs, Benjamin Perley Poore, Jane Grey Swisshelm, Horace White, James G. Blaine, and others who were positioned in the hub of government when the Civil War, the purchase of Alaska, the Cr dit Mohilier scandal, and the Johnson impeachment hearings were making front-page news. Rich in anecdote, this lively hook illuminates an important …
Economics
Bronson M. Cutting: Progressive Politician
Journal Article Bronson M. Cutting: Progressive Politician Get access Bronson M. Cutting: Progressive Politician. By Lowitt Richard. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992. xiv + 418 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $50.00.) Donald A. Ritchie Donald A. Ritchie U. S. Senate Historical Office Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 2, …
The Critical Press and the New Deal: The Press versus Presidential Power, 1933-1938.
Journal Article The Critical Press and the New Deal: The Press versus Presidential Power, 1933–1938. By Gary Dean Best. (Westport: Praeger, 1993. xviil 198 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-275-94350-X.) Get access Donald A. Ritchie Donald A. Ritchie Senate Historical Office, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 777–778, https://doi.org/10…
The Mild Voice of Reason: Deliberative Democracy and American National Government
Journal Article The Mild Voice of Reason: Deliberative Democracy and American National Government. By Joseph M. Bessette. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. xvi, 289 pp. $32.50, ISBN 0-226-04423-8.) Get access Donald A. Ritchie Donald A. Ritchie U. S. Senate Historical Office, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Page 85…
Reflections on Oral History in the New Millennium: Roundtable Comments
It is a rather daunting task that we have been assigned, particularly since the very word carries so much weight for those who inhabit the Western, Christian-influenced world. And with the proliferation of scholarly output on oral history, it is overwhelming to think, even fleetingly, about trying to synthesize these materials into a coherent statement that reflects our past, present and future and that is international in scope. So taking the pa…
Triumph of the Right: The Rise of the California Conservative Movement, 1945-1966
Journal Article Triumph of the Right: The Rise of the California Conservative Movement, 1945–1966 Get access Triumph of the Right: The Rise of the California Conservative Movement, 1945–1966. By Schuparra Kurt. (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1998. xxiv + 221 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Donald A. Ritchie Donald A. Ritchie United States Senate Historical Office Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Wester…
A Biography of America
Teaching survey courses in American history poses the daunting task of compressing and presenting several centuries of events, issues, and people in a package that students can grasp and retain meaningfully. A Biography of America admirably achieves these objectives in twenty-six half-hour programs on videocassette, accompanied by a textbook (Mary Beth Norton, A People and a Nation, 2001), teacher and student guides, and an interactive Web site .…
The American President
Just as the historical profession has essentially weaned itself from the presidential synthesis, pbs has been actively promoting presidential historians and presenting presidential documentaries, from episodes of American Experience to The American President. The latter tenpart series, first aired in April 2000, featured narration by Hugh Sidey and commentary by Richard Neustadt, along with such celebrity narrators as Tim Russert as Millard Fillm…
Introduction: Oral History in the Federal Government
The increasing fragmentation of historical study has stimulated interest in making history whole again. Thomas Bender has noted that although studies of class, race, and gender have revealed roles of groups traditionally excluded from American history, they have largely neglected the civic arena where groups interact. Other historians have encouraged interweaving of social history, political power, law, and state into new historical syntheses. Fo…
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