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Author Young, David W., 1964- author.

Title The battles of Germantown : effective public history in America / David W. Young
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource
Series History and the public
Contents Conversations : experiences with Germantown's community of memory -- Amnesia : Negro Achievement Week, 1928 -- Authority : which Germantown history -- and who decides? -- Integrity : making the Johnson House the heart of historic Germantown -- Projections : empty buildings of Germantown
Summary "Examines Philadelphia's Germantown neighborhood as a case in the study of American public history practices, and what the shape, scope, and contests over those efforts in this neighborhood can tell us about the evolution of public history in the United States"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Public history -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Historic preservation -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Collective memory -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Community life -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Public history -- United States -- Methodology -- Case studies
Collective memory
Community life
Historic preservation
Historiography
Public history
SUBJECT Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Historiography
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Historiography
Subject Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Germantown
United States
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019000791
ISBN 1439915563
9781439915561