Defining memory : local museums and the construction of history in America's changing communities /
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham, MD :
AltaMira Press,
c2007.
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| Series: | American Association for State and Local History book series
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Table of Contents:
- Why local museums matter / Amy K. Levin
- Local history, "Old things to look at," and a sculptor's vision : exploring local museums through curriculum theory / Elizabeth Vallance
- Public history, private memory : notes from the ethnography of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A. / Eric Gable and Richard Handler
- The House of Seven Gables : a house museum's adaptation to changing societal expectations since 1910 / Tami Christopher
- Louisiana's Old State Capitol Museum : castle on the Mississippi / J. Daniel d'Oney
- The small town we never were : Old Cowtown Museum faces an urban past / Jay Price
- "The dream then and now" : democratic nostalgia and the living museum at Arthurdale, West Virginia / Stuart Patterson
- History lessons : selling the John Dillinger Museum / Heather R. Perry
- The politics of prehistory : conflict and resolution at Dickson Mounds Museum / Donna Langford
- "Such is our heritage" : Daughters of Utah Pioneers museums / Jessie L. Embry and Mauri Liljenquist Nelson
- "A repository for bottled monsters and medical curiousities" : the evolution of the Amry Medical Museum / Michael G. Rhode and James T.H. Connor
- Objects of dis/order : articulating curiosities and engaging people at the Freakatorium / Lucian Gomoll
- Cities, museums, and city museums / Eric Sandweiss
- Business as usual : can museums be bought? / Amy K. Levin
- Conclusion: Museums and the American imagination / Amy K. Levin.
