Curating America : journeys through storyscapes of the American past / Richard Rabinowitz ; with illustrations by Richard T. Hoyen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rabinowitz, Richard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public history--United States--History--20th century.

Public history.

Public history--United States--History--21st century.

Museums--United States--History--20th century.

Museums.

Museums--United States--History--21st century.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

382 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

Contents:

Becoming a public historian. Discovering a calling ; No ideas but in things ; Twentieth-century minds dissecting nineteenth-century problems ; Other hands, other minds ; The elements of interpretation

Finding ourselves : interpreting place. History, dislocated ; Envisioning place on gallery walls ; Museum visitors on center stage ; Museums without walls ; Visitors reinsert human presence into the landscape ; Storyscapes everywhere

Beholding : interpreting stuff. The object of the object ; The object as evidence and experience ; The invention of the cluster

Belonging : interpreting identity and community. The body politic in the museum ; History turns critical ; Taking the new social history public ; The community as curator ; Can the history museum fix it?

Postscript

A reader's reflections.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781469629506

146962950X

OCLC:

943710316