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Author Stone-Gordon, Tammy

Title Private history in public : exhibition and the settings of everyday life / Tammy S. Gordon
Published Lanham : AltaMira Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 153 pages)
Series American Association for State and Local History book series
American Association for State and Local History book series.
Contents Historical display, commerce, and community -- Toward a new typology of historical exhibition in the United States -- Community exhibition : history, identity, and dialogue -- Entrepreneurial exhibition : historical display and the small business tradition -- Vernacular exhibition and the business of history -- Local history, global economy : the functions of history exhibits in the settings of daily life
Summary 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 i
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Historical museums -- Exhibitions
Public history -- United States
Public history -- Canada
Historical museums -- Social aspects -- United States
Historical museums -- Social aspects -- Canada
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES -- Americana.
Historical museums
Historical museums -- Social aspects
Philosophy
Public history
SUBJECT United States -- History, Local -- Philosophy
Canada -- History, Local -- Philosophy
Subject Canada
United States
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs
Local history
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021678966
ISBN 9780759119369
0759119368
1282479628
9781282479623
9786612479625
6612479620
0759119368