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Defining Memory
Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities- Editors:
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- 2007
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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
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- Contents No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Foreword No access Pages 1 - 6
- 1 Why Local Museums Matter No access
- 2 Local History, "Old Things to Look At," and a Sculptor's Vision: Exploring Local Museums through Curriculum Theory No access
- 3 Public History, Private Memory: Notes from the Ethnography of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A No access
- 4 The House of the Seven Gables: A House Museum's Adaptation to Changing Societal Expectations since 1910 No access
- 5 Louisiana's Old State Capitol Museum: Castle on the Mississippi No access
- 6 The Small Town We Never Were: Old Cowtown Museum Faces an Urban Past No access
- 7 "The Dream Then and Now": Democratic Nostalgia and the Living Museum at Arthurdale, West Virginia No access
- 8 History Lessons: Selling the John Dillinger Museum No access
- 9 The Politics of Prehistory: Conflict and Resolution at Dickson Mounds Museum No access
- 10 "Such is Our Heritage": Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museums No access
- 11 "A Repository for Bottled Monsters and Medical Curiosities": The Evolution of the Army Medical Museum No access
- 12 Objects of Dis/Order: Articulating Curiosities and Engaging People at the Freakatorium No access
- 13 Cities, Museums, and City Museums No access
- 14 Business as Usual: Can Museums Be Bought? No access
- 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





