Defining Memory
Subtitle: local museums and the construction of history in America's changing communities
By: edited by Amy K. Levin
Contributors: Levin, Amy K., 1957-
Series: American Association for State and Local History book series
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780759110496; 9780759110502
Subjects: Historical museums -- United States; Historic buildings -- United States; Historic sites -- United States; Museums -- Social aspects -- United States; Museums -- United States -- Management; Public history -- United States; Memory -- Social aspects -- United States; Community life -- United States; United States -- History, Local
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-268) and index
Table of contents: title: Why local museums matter / Amy K. Levin; title: Local history, "Old things to look at," and a sculptor's vision : exploring local museums through curriculum theory / Elizabeth Vallance; title: Public history, private memory : notes from the ethnography of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A. / Eric Gable and Richard Handler; title: The House of Seven Gables : a house museum's adaptation to changing societal expectations since 1910 / Tami Christopher; title: Louisiana's Old State Capitol Museum : castle on the Mississippi / J. Daniel d'Oney; title: The small town we never were : Old Cowtown Museum faces an urban past / Jay Price; title: "The dream then and now" : democratic nostalgia and the living museum at Arthurdale, West Virginia / Stuart Patterson; title: History lessons : selling the John Dillinger Museum / Heather R. Perry; title: The politics of prehistory : conflict and resolution at Dickson Mounds Museum / Donna Langford; title: "Such is our heritage" : Daughters of Utah Pioneers museums / Jessie L. Embry and Mauri Liljenquist Nelson; title: "A repository for bottled monsters and medical curiousities" : the evolution of the Amry Medical Museum / Michael G. Rhode and James T.H. Connor; title: Objects of dis/order : articulating curiosities and engaging people at the Freakatorium / Lucian Gomoll; title: Cities, museums, and city museums / Eric Sandweiss; title: Business as usual : can museums be bought? / Amy K. Levin; title: Conclusion: Museums and the American imagination / Amy K. Levin