Main entry:

Wallace, Mike, 1942- author.

Title & Author:

Mickey Mouse history and other essays on American memory / Mike Wallace.

Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1996.

Description:

xiv, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Critical perspectives on the past

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : Battlefields of memory -- Visiting the past : history museums in the United States -- Razor ribbons, history museums, and civic salvation -- Boat people : immigrant history at the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island -- Progress talk : museums of science, technology, and industry -- Industrial museums and the history of deindustrialization -- The virtual past : media and history museums -- Museums and controversy -- Mickey Mouse history : portraying the past at Disney World -- Disney's America -- Preserving the past : a history of historic preservation in the United States -- Preservation revisited -- Ronald Reagan and the politics of history -- The battle of the Enola Gay.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

1566394449 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781566394444 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1566394457 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781566394451 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Mickey Mouse.
Historical museums United States.
Historic sites Interpretive programs United States.
Historic preservation United States.
Histoire Musées États-Unis.
Lieux historiques Programmes d'interprétation États-Unis.
Patrimoine historique États-Unis.
Préservation historique États-Unis.
Historic preservation
Historic sites Interpretive programs
Historical museums
Geschichtsbewusstsein
Historische musea.
Collectief geheugen.
Geschiedschrijving.
Historische plaatsen.
Gedachtenis.
Historia dos estados unidos.
Museus de historia.
United States
USA

Form/genre:

Essays
Authors' presentation copies (Provenance) MH-H

Added entries:

Critical perspectives on the past.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 192751
Call No.: ID E172.W35; ID:97-B3822
Status: Available