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Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities offers readers multiple lenses for viewing and discussing local institutions. New chapters are included in a section titled "Museums Moving Forward," which analyzes the ways in which local...
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| Published: |
Rowman & Littlefield,
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| Publisher Address: | Lanham, Maryland : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: |
American Association for State and Local History book series
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| Summary: |
Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities offers readers multiple lenses for viewing and discussing local institutions. New chapters are included in a section titled "Museums Moving Forward," which analyzes the ways in which local museums have come to adopt digital technologies in selecting items for exhibitions as well as the complexities of creating institutions devoted to marginalized histories. -- |
| Carrier Form: | xxi, 323 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-301) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781538107874 1538107872 9781538107881 1538107880 |
| Index Number: | E172 |
| CLC: | G269.712.7 |
| Call Number: | G269.712.7/D313/2nd ed. |
| Contents: |
Frameworks. Why local museums matter / Local history, old things to look at, and a sculptor's vision: the curriculum in three local museums / Rebirth of a nation. Public history, private memory: notes from the ethnography of colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, USA / House of the Seven Gables: a house museum's adaptation to changing societal expectations since 1910 / Louisiana Old State Capitol, change and continuity / Nostalgia as epistemology. Small town we |