Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The National Mall and Memory of Painful Past -- 1. Framing Painful Past for the Nation: The Smithsonian Museum of American History -- 2. American Liberation, Part I: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -- 3. American Liberation, Part II: The National Museum of African American History and Culture -- 4. Remembering and Forgetting Genocide: The National Museum of the American Indian -- Conclusion. Looking Back, Moving Forward -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover
Summary
Curating America's Painful Past is an in-depth investigation of how America's past is currently remembered at the national museums in Washington, DC. Tim Gruenewald reveals how the tragic past is either minimized or framed in a way that does not threaten dominant national ideologies
