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HANOVER, N.H., March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- An oral history comprised of interviews with members of Ukrainian collective farms that were organized after the Bolshevik Revolution.Historically Speaking: Letters from Nagasaki tell of atomic bomb
This article written by Carolyn Krause features additional information about Carl Bretz. She introduced him to us two weeks ago, cited his career and how he came to be an Oak Ridger. The source Carolyn used is his soon to be published oral history.When a prison, is not prison
A short while after the 1953 Iranian coup détat (known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup), they set most theaters on fire, closed them down and captured the artists. Under Bakhtiars military command in Tehran, they incarcerated the local populace under the pretext of the Article V of Law and imprisoned every artist. I was, too, arrested in the street. At first, they kept me in a detention center in Tehran where I met Mohammad Ali Jafari and many other artists and radio staff; then, a few days later they took me and Mr. Jafari to Qasr Prison due to lack of room for the detainees in the detention center. The word had gone out that those taken to Qasr would never return home.The Trend of Historiography in Iran
Despite the early start of historiography in Iran, modern methods in historical research in the country, the source of inspiration of which has been claimed to be those method adopted by western historiographers, does not enjoy a long history.What Is Memoir?
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The cultural history of war is a very important approach in historiography which not only reviews the hidden angles of war and contributes a lot to understanding the “spirit of a war” by the mind and the language of a society living during a war, but also gives valuable research materials to other scientific fields concerned with the culture.In Chase and Escape (5)
Raha Amini: Seyyed Mohammad Mehdi Jafari was on the welcoming committee of Imam Khomeini and became a member of the Propagation Committee on radio and television.A Review of Printing History and Printing-houses in Iran
The demand for information is one of the essential necessities of social life and no one can ignore the importance of the press, particularly newspapers and papers in this regard.In Chase and Escape (4)
Armen and Avanesian: Seyyed Mohammad Mehdi Jafari has devoted a separate chapter of his book, Abreast with Freedom, to Shariati and says Bazargan considered Shariati as his son, having repeatedly heard from him that "Bazargan is our last hope".The Oldest Type of History
"History is a complicated knowledge that has to pass uneven and indirect routes in order to achieve a respective truth and we know how differently it has been found out through centuries....
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