Title & Author:

History museums in the United States : a critical assessment / edited by Warren Leon and Roy Rosenzweig.

Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1989.

Description:

xxvi, 333 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Designing the past : history-museum exhibitions from Peale to the present / Gary Kulik -- 2. The presentation of urban history in big-city museums / Michael Frisch -- 3. Living-history museums / Warren Leon and Margaret Piatt -- 4. Historic houses / John A. Herbst -- 5. Pioneer museums / David Lowenthal -- 6. From battle ground to pleasure ground : Gettysburg as a historic site / John S. Patterson -- 7. Mickey Mouse history : portraying the past at Disney world / Michael Wallace -- 8. Speaking of women : museums' representation of women's history / Barbara Melosh -- 9. Afro-Americans and museums : towards a policy of inclusion / James Oliver Horton and Spencer R. Crew -- 10. Tools, technologies, and contexts : interpreting the history of American technics / Joseph J. Corn -- 11. Machines, workers, and capitalists : the interpretation of textile industrialization in New England museums / Mary H. Blewett -- 12. History museums and material culture / Thomas J. Schlereth.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0252060644 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780252060649 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0252014006 (hard ; alk. paper)
9780252014000 (hard ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Historical museums United States.
Historic sites United States.
Historic sites Interpretive programs United States.
Histoire Musées États-Unis.
Lieux historiques États-Unis.
Lieux historiques Programmes d'interprétation États-Unis.
Historic sites
Historic sites Interpretive programs
Historical museums
Historische Stätte
Historisches Museum
Aufsatzsammlung
Historische musea.
United States
USA

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Leon, Warren.
Rosenzweig, Roy.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 50753
Call No.: ID:89-B9647
Status: Available