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Curating the American past : a memoir of a quarter century at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History / Pete Daniel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Daniel, Pete, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Museum of American History (U.S.).
- Museum curators--Washington (D.C.)--Biography.
- Museum curators.
- Employees.
- Daniel, Pete.
- National Museum of American History (U.S.)--Officials and employees--Biography.
- National Museum of American History (U.S.)--History.
- History.
- Washington (D.C.).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Memoir of a quarter century at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
- Place of Publication:
- Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- "In Curating the American Past, Pete Daniel takes readers behind the "Staff Only" door at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to reveal how curators collect objects, plan exhibits, navigate public-sector politics, and bring alive the events, characters, and concepts that define our shared history"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Historian/Curator
- 2. Boundaries
- 3. An Exemplary Division
- 4. Lectures
- 5. Science and Conflict
- 6. Denying History
- 7. Research Road
- 8. Rock `n' Soul
- 9. Defending Exhibit Standards
- 10. Entropy
- 11. The Wages of Mediocrity
- 12. Dismissive Indifference
- 13. Not Fade Away.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Daniel, Pete. Curating the American past
- ISBN:
- 9781682261972
- 1682261972
- OCLC:
- 1259587145
- Publisher Number:
- 99989858244
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