Private History in Public
Exhibition and the Settings of Everyday Life
1st Edition
Published on 16. January 2010
170 pages
979-8-7651-7904-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
979-8-7651-7904-8 (9798765179048)
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01/2010
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Persons
Tammy S. Gordon is assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Content
Foreword
Introduction: 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
Introduction: 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
