Defining Memory
eBook - ePub

Defining Memory

Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Defining Memory

Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities

About this book

Defining Memory uses case studies of exhibits from around the country to examine how local museums, defined as museums whose collections are local in scope or whose audiences are primarily local, have both shaped and been shaped by evolving community values and sense of history. Levin and her contributors argue that these small institutions play a key role in defining America's self-identity and should be studied as seriously as more national institutions like the Smithsonian and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Foreword
  3. PART I: Frameworks
  4. PART II: The Rebirth of a Nation
  5. PART III: Nostalgia as Epistemology
  6. PART IV Museums at Risk: Changing Publics
  7. PART V: Challenging the Major Museum
  8. PART VI: No Business Like Show Business
  9. Selected Bibliography
  10. About the Contributors