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Private history in public : exhibition and the settings of everyday life / Tammy S. Gordon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gordon, Tammy S., 1967-
- Series:
- American Association for State and Local History book series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historical museums--Exhibitions.
- Historical museums.
- Public history--United States.
- Public history.
- Local history.
- Philosophy.
- Historical museums--Social aspects.
- Exhibitions.
- United States.
- Public history--Canada.
- Historical museums--Social aspects--United States.
- Historical museums--Social aspects--Canada.
- United States--History, Local--Philosophy.
- Canada--History, Local--Philosophy.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 153 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : AltaMira Press, [2010]
- Summary:
- In small community museums, truck stops, restaurants, bars, barbershops, schools, and churches, people create displays to tell the histories that matter to them. Much of this history is personal: family history, community history, history of a trade, or the history of something considered less than genteel. It is often history based on the historical record, but also based on feelings, beliefs, and memory. It is neglected history.
- Private History in Public is about the history exhibits that complicate the public/private dichotomy, exhibits that serve to explain communities, families, and individuals to outsiders and tie insiders together through a shared narrative of historical experience. Tammy S. Gordon looks beyond the large professionalized museum exhibits that have dominated scholarship in museum studies and public history and offers a new way of understanding the broad spectrum of exhibition types in the United States.
- Contents:
- Historical display, commerce, and community
- Toward a new typology of historical exhibition in the United States
- Community exhibition : history, identity, and dialogue
- Entrepreneurial exhibition : historical display and the small business tradition
- Vernacular exhibition and the business of history
- Local history, global economy : the functions of history exhibits in the settings of daily life.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780759119345
- 0759119341
- 9780759119352
- 075911935X
- 9780759119369
- 0759119368
- OCLC:
- 431533093
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