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"History is bunk" : assembling the past at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village / Jessie Swigger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swigger, Jessie, author.
- Series:
- Public history in historical perspective.
- Public history in historical perspective
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ford, Henry, 1863-1947.
- Ford, Henry.
- Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village.
- Americana--Private collections--Michigan--Dearborn.
- Americana.
- Inventions--Private collections--Michigan--Dearborn.
- Inventions.
- Technology--United States--History.
- Technology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 216 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Assembling the past at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1916 a clearly agitated Henry Ford famously proclaimed that "history is more or less bunk." Thirteen years later, however, he opened the outdoor history museum Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan.It was written history's focus on politicians and military heroes that was bunk, he explained.
- Contents:
- "Goodbye textbooks, hello America": the Ford years
- The Fording of American history
- A permanent pageant of America
- The public's village
- Dearborn, not Detroit: Greenfield Village after Henry Ford
- Searching for an identity
- Visitors respond
- The new history at an old village
- From history museum to history attraction.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-302-6
- OCLC:
- 896890126
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