Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-2004

Keywords

Bellingham, WA, Centennial, Whatcom County Historical Society

Abstract

Local and academic historians seemingly stand on two sides of a ravine. The former focus on local pioneers and old buildings. Practitioners of local history often have little formal training in the academic discipline of history. Some are not interested in the work of academic historians, because they believe too little of it relates directly to places they know and about which they care deeply. On the other side of the ravine, many academic historians look down upon local historians, usually because local historians’ interests seem provincial; they rarely seem to be able to relate the landmark church or school building or the actions of a local pioneer or family member to the larger questions that preoccupy members of college and university history departments.

Publication Title

The Journal of the Whatcom Historical Society

Volume

Special Edition

Issue

Bellingham Centennial

First Page

7

Last Page

23

Required Publisher's Statement

Posted with the permission of the author and the Whatcom County Historical Society.

Geographic Coverage

Bellingham (Wash.)--History; Whatcom County (Wash.)--History

Genre/Form

articles

Type

Text

Language

English

Format

application/pdf

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