Mickey Mouse history and other essays on American memory /
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
1996.
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| Series: | Critical perspectives on the past
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Battlefields of memory
- Visiting the past : history museums in the United States
- Razor ribbons, history museums, and civic salvation
- Boat people : immigrant history at the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island
- Progress talk : museums of science, technology, and industry
- Industrial museums and the history of deindustrialization
- The virtual past : media and history museums
- Museums and controversy
- Mickey Mouse history : portraying the past at Disney World
- Disney's America
- Preserving the past : a history of historic preservation in the United States
- Preservation revisited
- Ronald Reagan and the politics of history
- The battle of the Enola Gay.
