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'Each morning I would strike out for this temple of learning in the crisp autumn air with a sense of purpose and the conviction that this was where I belonged'--Marilyn Stasio from 'My Research Project.' Inspired partly by Richard Altick's The Scholar Adventurers, the thirte...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Miller, Bruce Joshua (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Learning and scholarship. Research. Authorship. Historiography. Scholars > Biography. Authors > Biography. Historians > Biography. LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays. REFERENCE / Research.

Table of Contents:

Stay here as long as you like / Ali Selim
To understand you must break in / Steve Yates
Dating Albert Einstein / Alberto A. Martinez
Research can be murder / Katherine Hall Page
He liked custard / Margot Livesay
Prospecting the past / Theodore Kornweibel, Jr.
A good turn every day : a boy in Duluth in 1926 / Bruce White
Curious encounters in my search for Vinland / Annette Kolodny
Comanches, cowboys, and a political rock star / Jan Reid
The mad bomber guy / Bruce Joshua Miller
Pilgrim voices : Puritans, immigrants, and historical research / Philip J. Anderson
An essayist's guide to research and family life / Ned Stuckey-French
Your research
or your life! / Marilyn Stasio.