| Description |
xxiv, 424 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Critical perspectives on the past |
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Critical perspectives on the past.
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| 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 |
| Analysis |
Popular culture United States Historiography |
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Public history United States |
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United States Historiography |
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United States History Study and teaching |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 361-419 |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- United States -- Historiography.
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Public history -- United States.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140129
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United States -- History -- Study and teaching. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140329
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| Author |
Benson, Susan Porter, 1943-2005.
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Brier, Stephen, 1946-
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Rosenzweig, Roy.
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| LC no. |
85027648 |
| ISBN |
0877224064 |
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