Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of History in America&#039;s Changing Communities

Amy K. Levin

doi:10.5771/9780759113886

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Copyright year: 2007
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7591-1049-6
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7591-1388-6
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 290
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
Foreword No access Pages 1 - 6
1. 1 Why Local Museums Matter No access
2. 2 Local History, "Old Things to Look At," and a Sculptor's Vision: Exploring Local Museums through Curriculum Theory No access
1. 3 Public History, Private Memory: Notes from the Ethnography of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A No access
2. 4 The House of the Seven Gables: A House Museum's Adaptation to Changing Societal Expectations since 1910 No access
3. 5 Louisiana's Old State Capitol Museum: Castle on the Mississippi No access
1. 6 The Small Town We Never Were: Old Cowtown Museum Faces an Urban Past No access
2. 7 "The Dream Then and Now": Democratic Nostalgia and the Living Museum at Arthurdale, West Virginia No access
3. 8 History Lessons: Selling the John Dillinger Museum No access
1. 9 The Politics of Prehistory: Conflict and Resolution at Dickson Mounds Museum No access
2. 10 "Such is Our Heritage": Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museums No access
3. 11 "A Repository for Bottled Monsters and Medical Curiosities": The Evolution of the Army Medical Museum No access
1. 12 Objects of Dis/Order: Articulating Curiosities and Engaging People at the Freakatorium No access
2. 13 Cities, Museums, and City Museums No access
1. 14 Business as Usual: Can Museums Be Bought? No access
2. 15 Conclusion: Museums and the American Imagination No access
Selected Bibliography No access Pages 265 - 268
Index No access Pages 269 - 284
About the Contributors No access Pages 285 - 290