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2009 Article 437 Book Reviews Jesús F. de la Teja, Editor Collecting Texas: Essays on Texana Collectors and the Creation of Research Libraries. Edited by Thomas H. Krenek and Gerald D. Saxon. (Dallas: The Book Club of Texas, 2010. Pp. 195, introduction, photographs, notes, index. Published without ISBN, $75.00 cloth limited edition of 300; $175 quarter-leather deluxe edition of 75 in slipcase.) For many years I have advocated to any audience who will listen the social imperative of “applied history,” which is a knowledge of the past not for the ped- antr y of being able to spout the dates of reigns and battles, but because ever ything we believe today filters like coffee through what we ever understood about his- tory. At this writing, for one example, the news is dominated by the controversy over whether to allow the construction of an Islamic community center near the former site of the World Trade Center in New York City. Few who are verbally engaged are even aware that the intended building is in the heart of a community once known as Little Syria, a formerly thriving enclave that was all but wiped out by construction of the World Trade
Southwestern Historical Quarterly – Southwest Center (Univ of Arizona)
Published: May 14, 2011
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