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Social historians attempt to understand everyday human experience, and in particular to construct narratives of the lower socioeconomic classes and other groups not represented in traditional literary or governing circles--the subject of political, intellectual, and military histories.
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See also:
- Gender and Medieval Studies Group - Organizes international, interdisciplinary conferences aimed at furthering the study of medieval gender and sexuality. Information about next conference: 'Seeing Gender', 4-6 January 2002, King's College, London.
- The People History - Memories of events, nostalgia, and experiences as recalled by people.
- Romano-Archives: Special Collections Department - Images and information from the end of 1800s through 1970 on automobiles, Germany, Betty Boop, girls, war, cartoons, movie posters, and 1939 New York World's Fair.
- Sex In History - Text of a 1954 history of sexuality and relationships by Gordon Rattray Taylor critical of their historical repression.
- Temperance and Prohibition - A series of illustrated articles on the history of prohibition in the United States from Ohio State University History Department.
- USDA Historical Photos - United States Department of Agriculture collection of about 400 photographs which provides a portrait of rural and small town American life mainly in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
- The Victorian Web: Victorian Social History - Brief essays on a wide range of topics, including public health, conditions of life and labor, economic history, education, and race, class and gender issues.
- World History Archives - A collection of documents for teaching and learning about world history from a working class perspective.
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