"History is bunk"
Subtitle: assembling the past at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village
By: Jessie Swigger
Series: Public history in historical perspective
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781625340771; 9781625340788
Subjects: Americana; Private collections; Inventions; Technology; History; Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Goodbye textbooks, hello America": the Ford years; title: The Fording of American history; title: A permanent pageant of America; title: The public's village; title: Dearborn, not Detroit: Greenfield Village after Henry Ford; title: Searching for an identity; title: Visitors respond; title: The new history at an old village; title: From history museum to history attraction.