Ebook: Private History in Public : Exhibition and the Settings of Everyday Life
Author: Tammy S. Gordon, Harold Skramstad, Harold Skramstad
- Tags: Historical museums--Exhibitions., Public history--United States., Public history--Canada., Historical museums--Social aspects--United States., Historical museums--Social aspects--Canada., United States--History Local--Philosophy., Canada--History Local--Philosophy.
- Series: American Association for State and Local History Series
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- City: California, United States
- Language: English
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In small community museums, truck stops, restaurants, bars, barbershops, schools, and churches, people create displays to tell the histories that matter to them. Much of this history is personal: family history, community history, history of a trade, or the history of something considered less than genteel. It is often history based on the historical record, but also based on feelings, beliefs, and memory. It is neglected history. Private History in Public is about those history exhibits that complicate the public/private dichotomy, exhibits that serve to explain communities, families, and individuals to outsiders and tie insiders together through a shared narrative of historical experience. Tammy S. Gordon looks beyond the large professionalized museum exhibits that have dominated scholarship in museum studies and public history and offers a new way of understanding the broad spectrum of exhibition types in the United States.
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