Private History in Public

Zusammenfassung

In small community museums, truck stops, restaurants, bars, barbershops, schools, and churches, people create displays to tell the histories that matter to them. Much of this history is personal: family history, community history, history of a trade, or the history of something considered less than genteel. It is often history based on the historical record, but also based on feelings, beliefs, and memory. It is neglected history. Private History in Public is about those history exhibits that complicate the public/private dichotomy, exhibits that serve to explain communities, families, and individuals to outsiders and tie insiders together through a shared narrative of historical experience. Tammy S. Gordon looks beyond the large professionalized museum exhibits that have dominated scholarship in museum studies and public history and offers a new way of understanding the broad spectrum of exhibition types in the United States.

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Copyrightjahr

2010

ISBN-Print

978-0-7591-1934-5

ISBN-Online

978-0-7591-1936-9

Verlag

Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham

Sprache

Englisch

Seiten

154

Produkttyp

Monographie