(Download ebook) Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities (American Association for State and Local History)
♥ Amy K. Levin ♥
| #602125 in Books | AltaMira Press | 2007-03-06 | 2007-03-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.06 x.88 x6.10l,.97 | File Name: 0759110506 | 298 pages |
||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Helpful tool|By Mom of 4|Very helpful as I get ready to do research in my community. Helps provide focus and what some of the pitfalls can be when communicating the story. One of the examples in this book was near my community and I remember the controversy surrounding it. It was an interesting experience to read about it in this book from an objective outsider person.|0 of||Defining Memory is an important and long-overdue piece of work that not only highlights the significant influence of local museums in their communities but also discloses them as lenses for understanding our greater contemporary American community. Bec
Defining Memory uses case studies of exhibits from around the country to examine how local museums, defined as museums whose collections are local in scope or whose audiences are primarily local, have both shaped and been shaped by evolving community values and sense of history. Levin and her contributors argue that these small institutions play a key role in defining America's selfidentity and should be studied as seriously as more national institutions like the Smiths...
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