Museums, Monuments, and National Parks: Toward a New Genealogy of Public History (Public History in Historical Perspective)
A valuable contribution that illuminates the key role of the National Park Service in shaping the field offered at a crucial time when public history programs are expanding, public sector support is waning, and the field is going through a period of redefinition. We need this book now. --Anne Mitchell Whisnant, author of Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway HistoryInformed and informative, Museums, Monuments, and National Parks: Toward a New Genealogy of Public History is a work of seminal scholarship and a welcome addition to academic library American History reference collections and supplemental reading lists. --The Midwest Book ReviewIn this richly researched book, the historian Denise D. Meringolo situates the birth of a new field--public history--dacades before the postwar emergence of a recognized subfield. . . . Often marginalized or forgotten in recent histories of public history, the characters in Meringolo's story were central in shaping American relationships to the past. --The Journal of American HistoryMeringolo has added an important layer of context to previous studies of development of the National Park Service. For that we are in her debt. --The George Wright Forum