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Author | : Richard Handler |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780822319740 |
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An ethnographic exploration of the presentation of history at Colonial Williamsburg. It examines the packaging of American history, and the consumerism and the manufacturing of cultural beliefs.
Author | : Tammy S. Gordon |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2010-01-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0759119368 |
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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.
Author | : William Thomas Alderson |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780761991625 |
Download Interpretation of Historic Sites Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Interpretation of Historic Sites offers essential knowledge on how to develop and conduct interpretive programs for every historic site, regardless of size or budget.
Author | : Anders Greenspan |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2020-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469625679 |
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In Creating Colonial Williamsburg, Anders Greenspan examines the restoration and re-creation of the structures and gardens of Virginia's colonial capital beginning in 1926. The restoration was undertaken by the Rockefeller family, whose aim was to promote a twentieth-century appreciation for eighteenth-century ideals. Ironically, those ideals, including democracy, individualism, and representative government, were often promoted at the expense of a more complete understanding of the town's true history. The meaning and purpose of Colonial Williamsburg has changed over time, along with America's changing social and political landscapes, making the study of this historic site a unique and meaningful entry point to understanding the shifting modern American character. In recent years, financial struggles and declining attendance forced a new interpretation of the town, extending the presentation into the period of the American Revolution, while adding new interpretive approaches such as street theater and a greater emphasis on technology. Over its eighty-year history, says Greenspan, Colonial Williamsburg has grown and matured, while still retaining its emphasis on the importance of eighteenth-century values and their application in the modern world.
Author | : Cynthia Saltzman |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780670018314 |
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Author | : Scott Magelssen |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Historic sites |
ISBN | : 0810858657 |
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Living History Museums: Undoing History Through Performance examines the performance techniques of Living History Museums, cultural institutions that merge historical exhibits with costumed live performance. Institutions such as Plimoth Plantation and Colonial Williamsburg are analyzed from a theatrical perspective, offering a new genealogy of living museum performance.
Author | : Gertrude Himmelfarb |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674013841 |
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For this updated edition of her acclaimed work on historians and historiography, Himmelfarb adds four new essays. In examining the effects of postmodernism, the illusions of cosmopolitanism, A. J. P. Taylor and revisionism, and Fukuyama's "end of history," Himmelfarb enriches her exploration of the ways historians make sense of the past.
Author | : Max Page |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780415934435 |
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Author | : Amy K. Levin |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2017-10-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1538107899 |
Download Defining Memory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This updated edition of Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of History in America’s Changing Communities offers readers multiple lenses for viewing and discussing local institutions. New chapters are included in a section titled “Museums Moving Forward,” which analyzes the ways in which local museums have come to adopt digital technologies in selecting items for exhibitions as well as the complexities of creating institutions devoted to marginalized histories. In addition to the new chapters, the second edition updates existing chapters, presenting changes to the museums discussed. It features expanded discussions of how local museums treat (or ignore) racial and ethnic diversity and concludes with a look at how business relationships, political events, and the economy affect what is shown and how it is displayed in local museums.
Author | : Warren Leon |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780252060649 |
Download History Museums in the United States Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Every year 100 million visitor's tour historic houses and re-created villages, examine museum artifacts, and walk through battlefields. But what do they learn? What version of the past are history museums offering to the public? And how well do these institutions reflect the latest historical scholarship? Fifteen scholars and museum staff members here provide the first critical assessment of American history museums, a vital arena for shaping popular historical consciousness. They consider the form and content of exhibits, ranging from Gettysburg to Disney World. They also examine the social and political contexts on which museums operate.