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Presenting the past : essays on history and the public edited by Susan Porter Benson, Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenzweig
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 175.8 .P83 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical perspectives on the past
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Study and teaching.
- United States.
- Public history--United States.
- Public history.
- Popular culture--United States--Historiography.
- Popular culture.
- United States--Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 424 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1986.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Susan Porter Benson, Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenzweig
- I. Packaging the past : mass culture and historical consciousness
- The memory of history / Michael H. Frisch
- Marketing the past : American heritage and popular history in the United States / Roy Rosenzweig
- History in the fast lane : Howard Fast and the historical novel / Priscilla Murolo
- Into the minds of babes : childrens books and the past / Joshua Brown
- John Ford's Drums along the Mohawk : the making of an American myth / Edward Countryman
- The painted mirror : historical re-creation from the panorama to the docudrama / Eric Breitbart
- Anatomy of a disinterment : the unmaking of Afro-American history / Gertrude Fraser and Reginald Butler
- II. Professionalizing the past : reflections on applied history
- Visiting the past : history of museums in the United States / Michael Wallace
- Reflections on the history of historic preservation / Michael Wallace
- Exhibiting women's history / Barbara Melosh and Christina Simmons
- Corporate history, or giving history the business / Daniel J. Walkowitz
- Pitfalls along the path of public history / Terence O'Donnell
- III. Politicizing the past : toward a people's history
- Oral history and community involvement : the Baltimore Neighborhood Heritage Project / Linda Shopes
- A report on doing history from below : the Brass Workers History Project / Jeremy Brecher
- History's gay ghetto : the contradictions of growth in lesbian and gay history / Lisa Duggan
- Feminism, film, and public history / Sonya Michel
- A faithful witness : Afro-American public history in historical perspectives, 1828-1984 / Jeffrey C. Stewart and Faith Davis Ruffins
- Engaging in people's history : the Massachusetts history workshop / James R. Green.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p. 361-419.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives.
- ISBN:
- 0877224064 (pbk.)
- 9780877224068 (pbk.)
- OCLC:
- 12810303
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