Odyssey of an Archives: What the History of the Gordon W. Prange Collection of Japanese Materials Teaches Us About Libraries, Censorship, and Keeping the Past Alive

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dc.contributor.advisorMayo, Marleneen_US
dc.contributor.authorSnyder, Sara Christineen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistory/Library & Information Systemsen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2007-06-22T05:38:17Z
dc.date.available2007-06-22T05:38:17Z
dc.date.issued2007-05-07
dc.description.abstractIn 1949, a professor of German history named Gordon W. Prange obtained a set of rare publications and censorship documents pertaining to the Allied Occupation of Japan. He shipped these materials to the University of Maryland, where for the next fifty years a parade of faculty and staff alternately neglected, protected, exploited, and cherished them. This Master's thesis traces that history, paralleling the rising fame of the Prange Collection with developments in East Asian Studies and Prange's interest in Pearl Harbor. It concludes with a discussion of applied concepts in archival science, arguing that the relatively late development of the American archival discipline coupled with the complicated format of Prange Collection materials meant that the archival qualities of the Collection took many years to recognize. Sources include original oral history interviews and archival research. This thesis contributes to the interdisciplinary field of archival history.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/6954
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistory, Generalen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledInformation Scienceen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistory, Generalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPrangeen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledArchiveen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledArchivesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledLibraryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMarylanden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledOccupationen_US
dc.titleOdyssey of an Archives: What the History of the Gordon W. Prange Collection of Japanese Materials Teaches Us About Libraries, Censorship, and Keeping the Past Aliveen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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