Michael Cassity Historical Research
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      • Downtown Ponca City, Oklahoma Historic Survey, 2008
      • Teton County, Wyoming: Historic Site Survey, 2004
      • Route 66 in Oklahoma, 2002
      • Teton County, Wyoming: Historic Site Survey 1999
      • Teton County, Wyoming: Historic Site Survey, 1998
      • Downtown Casper, Wyoming: Historic Site Survey, 1988
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History, Historical Context, and Wyoming History



   Of History and Human Needs . . .
        This is a short perspective that will hopefully help the reader take "history" beyond a compilation of facts to a search for meaning and understanding, not just of distant events and people but of our own lives today and how history connects to us.

    The Problem of Historical Context
        A key way that we understand the past has to do with the way we put events and developments together so that we can understand how they compared with what came before and after and how they can illuminate (and be illuminated by) similar developments elsewhere.

    Historic Preservation and Wyoming
        In this Introduction, "Touching the Past in Wyoming," to Wyoming's Statewide Historic Preservation Plan (2007), I explore some of the potential and richness, as well as importance, of the physical elements of Wyoming history that are left and how we can protect them. 

  
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  • Home
  • About Michael Cassity
  • Abstract Past / Real World
    • Books Published
    • Select Published Articles
    • On-line Publications
  • The Concept of Historical Context
  • A Wyoming Trilogy +
    • Fort Laramie's People
    • Depression-Era Federal Projects in Wyoming, 1929-1943
    • Heart Mountain A Half-Century Later
    • Paul McCollister, Teton Village, and Jackson Hole
  • History around Us
    • Depression-Era Federal Projects in Wyoming, 1929-1943
    • Wyoming Homesteading, Ranching, and Farming, 1860-1960
    • Route 66 / U.S. Highway 66 in the Nation
    • Local History and Surveys of Historic Resources >
      • Downtown Ponca City, Oklahoma Historic Survey, 2008
      • Teton County, Wyoming: Historic Site Survey, 2004
      • Route 66 in Oklahoma, 2002
      • Teton County, Wyoming: Historic Site Survey 1999
      • Teton County, Wyoming: Historic Site Survey, 1998
      • Downtown Casper, Wyoming: Historic Site Survey, 1988
    • Individual National Register Nominations
    • National Historic Landmark: Murie Ranch Historic District
    • Historic American Engineering Record: Sublet Mine No. 6
  • Historian, Citizen of the World
    • Nicaragua, 1990
    • Buenos Aires, 1995
  • Dawn of a New Day
  • Contact Me
  • Links