Curating America's painful past : memory, museums, and the national imagination /

Curating America's painful past : memory, museums, and the national imagination /

"This book argues that acknowledgment of painful pasts at the geographic and ideological center of American national identity is crucial for addressing inequities in the present. The study analyzes four major museums on the National Mall that are dedicated to traumatic histories: the Smithsonia...

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Author / Creator: Gruenewald, Tim (Autor)
Format: eBook Electrònic
Idioma:English
Imprint: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2021]
Col·lecció:Culture America.
Matèries:
Smithsonian Institution.
Smithsonian Institution
Collective memory > United States.
Historical museums > United States > Case studies.
Museums and minorities > United States > Case studies.
Museums > Curatorship > United States > Case studies.
Collective memory
Historical museums
Historiography
Museums and minorities
Museums > Curatorship
Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)
United States > Historiography.
United States
Washington (D.C.) > The Mall
Case studies
Accés en línia:Click here for full text at Project MUSE
Taula de continguts:
  • Introduction: The national mall and memory of painful past
  • Framing painful past for the nation : the Smithsonian Museum of American History
  • American liberation, part I : the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • American liberation, part II : the National Museum of African American History And Culture
  • Remembering and forgetting genocide : the National Museum of The American Indian
  • Conclusion: Looking back, moving forward.

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