Mickey Mouse history and other essays on American memory /
Wallace, Mike,1942-
Philadelphia : Temple University Press,
1996.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Historical museums
Historic sites
Historic preservation