Title: History museums in the United States : a critical assessment /
Authors: Leon, Warren.; Rosenzweig, Roy.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Historical museums United States.; Historic sites United States; Historic sites Interpretive programs United States.
Contents: 1. Designing the past : history-museum exhibitions from Peale to the present / Gary Kulik -- 2. The presentation of urban history in big-city museums / Michael Frisch -- 3. Living-history museums / Warren Leon and Margaret Piatt -- 4. Historic houses / John A. Herbst -- 5. Pioneer museums / David Lowenthal -- 6. From battle ground to pleasure ground : Gettysburg as a historic site / John S. Patterson -- 7. Mickey Mouse history : portraying the past at Disney world / Michael Wallace -- 8. Speaking of women : museums' representation of women's history / Barbara Melosh -- 9. Afro-Americans and museums : towards a policy of inclusion / James Oliver Horton and Spencer R. Crew -- 10. Tools, technologies, and contexts : interpreting the history of American technics / Joseph J. Corn -- 11. Machines, workers, and capitalists : the interpretation of textile industrialization in New England museums / Mary H. Blewett -- 12. History museums and material culture / Thomas J. Schlereth.