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Adult Museum Programs: Designing Meaningful Experiencesby Bonnie Sachatello-Sawyer, Hanly Burton, Walter Woolbaugh, Bonnie Sachatello Sawyer, Robert Fellenz, Laura Gittings Carlson, Janet Lewis MahonyISBN 0759100977 (0-7591-0097-7)
Softcover, Altamira Pr
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American Places: Encounters With Historyby William E. LeuchtenburgISBN 0756779014 (0-7567-7901-4)
Hardcover, Diane Pub Co
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Becoming Americans: Our Struggle to Be Both Free and Equal A Plan of Thematic Interpretationby Cary CarsonISBN 0879351675 (0-87935-167-5)
Softcover, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory, and the American Civil Warby David W. BlightISBN 1558493611 (1-55849-361-1)
Softcover, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
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Commemorations: The Politics of National Identityby John R. GillisISBN 0691029253 (0-691-02925-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Cultural History and Material Culture: Everyday Life, Landscapes, Museumsby Thomas J. SchlerethISBN 0835718999 (0-8357-1899-9)
Softcover, Umi Research Pr
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Curriculum Standards for Social Studies: Expectations of ExcellenceISBN 0879860650 (0-87986-065-0)
Softcover, Natl Council for the Social
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Dallas Rediscovered: A Photographic Chronicle of Urban Expansion 1870-1825by William L. McDonaldISBN 0932018009 (0-932018-00-9)
Hardcover, Texas Monthly Pr
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Dallas Rediscovered: A Photographic Chronicle of Urban Expansion 1870-1925by William Lloyd McDonaldISBN 0932018017 (0-932018-01-7)
Hardcover, Dallas Historical Society
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Domesticating History: The Political Origins of America's House Museumsby Patricia WestISBN 1560988363 (1-56098-836-3)
Softcover, Smithsonian Inst Pr
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Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approachby Beverly SerrellISBN 0761991069 (0-7619-9106-9)
Softcover, Altamira Pr
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Exhibiting Dilemmas: Issues of Representation at the Smithsonianby Adrienne L. Kaeppler, Amy HendersonISBN 1560984449 (1-56098-444-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Great Tours!: Thematic Tours and Guide Training for Historic Sitesby Sandra Mackenzie Lloyd, Susan Porter Schreiber, Barbara Abramoff LevyISBN 0759100993 (0-7591-0099-3)
Softcover, Altamira Pr
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A Guide to Biltmore Estateby Rachel CarleyISBN 1885378017 (1-885378-01-7)
Softcover, Biltmore Co
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A Guide to Documentary Editingby Mary-Jo KlineISBN 0801856868 (0-8018-5686-8)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Historic Preservation in Small Towns: A Manual of Practiceby Walter C. Kidney, Arthur P. ZieglerISBN 0910050430 (0-910050-43-0)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Amer
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History Museums in the United States: A Critical Assessmentby Warren Leon, Roy RosenzweigISBN 0252060644 (0-252-06064-4)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Pastby Edward T. Linenthal, Tom EngelhardtISBN 080504387X (0-8050-4387-X)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Ideas and Images: Developing Interpretive History Exhibitsby American Association for State and Local History, Kenneth L. Ames, L. Thomas Frye, Barbara FrancoISBN 0761989323 (0-7619-8932-3)
Softcover, Altamira Pr
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Ideas and Images: Developing Interpretive History Exhibitsby Kenneth L. Ames, L. Thomas Frye, Barbara FrancoISBN 0942063201 (0-942063-20-1)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Inside the Magic Kingdom: Seven Keys to Disney's Successby Thomas K. ConnellanISBN 1885167237 (1-885167-23-7)
Hardcover, Bard
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Interpretation for the 21st Century: Fifteen Guiding Principles for Interpreting Nature and Cultureby Ted T. Cable, Larry BeckISBN 1571675221 (1-57167-522-1)
Softcover, Sagamore Pub Llc
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Interpreting Historic House Museumsby Jessica Foy DonnellyISBN 0759102511 (0-7591-0251-1)
Softcover, Altamira Pr
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Interpreting Our Heritageby Freeman TildenISBN 0807840165 (0-8078-4016-5)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Introduction to Museum Workby George Ellis BurcawISBN 0761989269 (0-7619-8926-9)
Softcover, Altamira Pr
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Softcover, Univ Pr of Amer - Introduction to Museum Work: ISBN 0910050139 (0-910050-13-9)
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Judgement at the Smithsonianby Philip NobileISBN 1569248419 (1-56924-841-9)
Softcover, Marlowe & Co
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Keeping Time: The History and Theory of Preservation in Americaby William J. MurtaghISBN 0471473774 (0-471-47377-4)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Leadership for the Future: Changing Directorial Roles in American History Museums and Historical Societies Collected Essaysby Bryant F. TollesISBN 0942063112 (0-942063-11-2)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrongby James W. LoewenISBN 1565843444 (1-56584-344-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong'Book summary:Little seems to delight historian James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, more than picking apart the cherished myths of American history. Few Americans study history after high school--instead, Loewen writes, they turn to novels and Oliver Stone movies to learn about the past. And they turn to the landscape, to roadside historical markers, guidebooks, museums, and tours of battlefields, childhood homes, and massacre sites. If you were to trust those sources, Loewen suggests, you would learn, erroneously, that the first airplane flight took place not at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, but at Pittsburg, Texas. "It must be true--an impressive-looking Texas state historical marker says so!" Loewen chortles.
In these entertaining pages, Loewen takes a region-by-region tour of the United States, pointing out historical oddments as he travels. For example, a massacre of white pioneers by Indians commemorated in Almo, Idaho, never took place, Loewen continues; neither did many other such events. Indeed, he insists, "throughout the entire West between 1842 and 1859, of more than 400,000 pioneers crossing the plains, fewer than 400, or less than .1 percent, were killed by American Indians." And if you were to visit Helen Keller's Georgia birthplace, over which a Confederate flag flies, you would get the impression that Keller had been an unreconstructed daughter of the Old South, whereas she was in fact an early supporter of the NAACP. And so on.
After finishing Loewen's alternately angry and bemused exposé, readers will likely never trust a roadside historical marker or tour guide again--which may prompt them to turn to history books to check things out for themselves. As well they should. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Lies My Teacher Told Meby James W. LoewenISBN 0613706471 (0-613-70647-1)
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Since its initial publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell one million copies in its various editions.
What started out as a survey of the twelve leading American history textbooks has ended up being what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "an extremely convincing plea for truth in education" beginning with the pre-Columbian period and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, and the My Lai massacre.
In this revised and updated edition, James Loewen surveys six new high school history textbooks written since the first edition of Lies was published. In his inimitable style, he adds material to each chapter noting where the new books have gotten more accurate and where they are still fatally flawed. Loewen also writes at length about the way these textbooks treat the 2001 terrorist attacks and our "response" in Iraq. In fact, while researching this new edition Loewen made the front page of the New York Times in 2006 when he discovered that publishers were passing off as original virtually identical passages on important recent events in a number of history books. And in yet another example of the failure of American history textbooks, he found that "celebrity" historians whose names appear as authors in some cases have never read, let alone written, the texts attributed to them. [via]More editions of Lies My Teacher Told Me:
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrongby James W. LoewenISBN 156584100X (1-56584-100-X)
Hardcover, New Pr
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Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that not one does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit almost all the ambiguity, passion, conflict, and drama from our past. In ten powerful chapters, Loewen reveals that:
- The United States dropped three times as many tons of explosives in Vietman as it dropped in all theaters of World War II, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Ponce de Leon went to Florida mainly to capture Native Americans as slaves for Hispaniola, not to find the mythical fountain of youth
- Woodrow Wilson, known as a progressive leader, was in fact a white supremacist who personally vetoed a clause on racial equality in the Covenant of the League of Nations
- The first colony to legalize slavery was not Virginia but Massachusetts
From the truth about Columbus's historic voyages to an honest evaluation of our national leaders, Loewen revives our history, restoring to it the vitality and relevance it truly possesses. [via]
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Memory in Black and White: Race, Commemoration, and the Post-Bellum Landscapeby Paul A. ShackelISBN 0759102635 (0-7591-0263-5)
Softcover, Altamira Pr
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The Methods and Skills of History: A Practical Guideby Conal Furay, Michael J. SalevourisISBN 0882959824 (0-88295-982-4)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson
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Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memoryby Mike WallaceISBN 1566394457 (1-56639-445-7)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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The Museum in Transition: A Philosophical Perspectiveby Hilde S. HeinISBN 1560983965 (1-56098-396-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museumsby Edward P. Alexander, William T. AldersonISBN 0761991557 (0-7619-9155-7)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburgby Richard Handler, Eric GableISBN 0822319748 (0-8223-1974-8)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past (And Each Other)by Mark CarnesISBN 0684857669 (0-684-85766-9)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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On Doing Local History: Reflections on What Local Historians Do, Why, and What It Meansby Carol KammenISBN 0759102538 (0-7591-0253-8)
Softcover, Altamira Pr
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Past Imperfect: History According to the Moviesby Mark C. Carnes, David Rubel, Ted Mico, John Miller-MonzonISBN 0805037608 (0-8050-3760-8)
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Past into Present: Effective Techniques for First-Person Historical Interpretationby Stacy F. RothISBN 0807847100 (0-8078-4710-0)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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A Place to Remember: Using History to Build Communityby Robert ArchibaldISBN 0761989439 (0-7619-8943-9)
Softcover, Altamira Pr
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The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes As Public Historyby Dolores HaydenISBN 0262581523 (0-262-58152-3)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Based on her extensive experience in the urban communities of Los Angeles, historian and architect Dolores Hayden proposes new perspectives on gender, race, and ethnicity to broaden the practice of public history and public art, enlarge urban preservation, and reorient the writing of urban history to spatial struggles.
In the first part of The Power of Place, Hayden outlines the elements of a social history of urban space to connect people's lives and livelihoods to the urban landscape as it changes over time. She then explores how communities and professionals can tap the power of historic urban landscapes to nurture public memory.
The second part documents a decade of research and practice by The Power of Place, a nonprofit organization Hayden founded in downtown Los Angeles. Through public meetings, walking tours, artists's books, and permanent public sculpture, as well as architectural preservation, teams of historians, designers, planners, and artists worked together to understand, preserve, and commemorate urban landscape history as African American, Latina, and Asian American families have experienced it.
One project celebrates the urban homestead of Biddy Mason, an African American ex-slave and midwife active betwen 1856 and 1891. Another reinterprets the Embassy Theater where Rose Pesotta, Luisa Moreno, and Josefina Fierro de Bright organized Latina dressmakers and cannery workers in the 1930s and 1940s. A third chapter tells the story of a historic district where Japanese American family businesses flourished from the 1890s to the 1940s. Each project deals with bitter memoriesslavery, repatriation, internmentbut shows how citizens survived and persevered to build an urban life for themselves, their families, and their communities.
Drawing on many similar efforts around the United States, from New York to Charleston, Seattle to Cincinnati, Hayden finds a broad new movement across urban preservation, public history, and public art to accept American diversity at the heart of the vernacular urban landscape. She provides dozens of models for creative urban history projects in cities and towns across the country. [via]More editions of The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes As Public History:
Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Lifeby Roy Rosenzweig, David P. ThelenISBN 0231111495 (0-231-11149-5)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Publicby Roy Rosenzweig, Stephen Brier, Susan Porter BensonISBN 0877224064 (0-87722-406-4)
Softcover, Temple University Press
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Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Publicby Stephen Brier, Susan Porter Benson, Roy RosenzweigISBN 0877224137 (0-87722-413-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Public'Book summary:In recent years, history has been increasingly popularized through television docudramas, history museums, paperback historical novels, grassroots community history projects, and other public representations of historical knowledge. This collection of lively and accessible essays is the first examination of the rapidly growing field called 'public history'. Based in part on articles written for the "Radical History Review", these eighteen original essays take a sometimes irreverent look at how history is presented to the public in such diverse settings as children's books, Colonial Williamsburg, and the Statue of Liberty, "Presenting the Past" is organized into three areas which consider the role of mass media ('Packaging the Past'), the affects of applied history ('Professionalizing the Past') and the importance of grassroots efforts to shape historical consciousness ('Politicizing the Past').The first section examines the large-scale production and dissemination of popular history by mass culture. The contributors criticize many of these Hollywood and Madison Avenue productions that promote historical amnesia or affirm dominant values and institutions. In 'Professionalizing the Past', the authors show how non-university based professional historians have also affected popular historical consciousness through their work in museums, historic preservation, corporations, and government agencies.Finally, the book considers what has been labeled 'people's history' oral history projects, slide shows, films, and local exhibits and assesses its attempts to reach such diverse constituents as workers, ethnic groups, women, and gays. Of essential interest to students of history, "Presenting the Past" also explains to the general reader how Americans have come to view themselves, their ancestors, and their heritage through the influence of mass media, popular culture, and 'public history'.Susan Porter Benson is Associate Professor and Chair of History at Bristol Community College in Massachusetts. Stephen Brier is Director of the American Social History Project and Senior Research Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Roy Rosenzweig is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Oral History Program at George Mason University in Virginia. [via]
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Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museumby Edward T. LinenthalISBN 0231124074 (0-231-12407-4)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum'Book summary:Since its first year in 1993, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has attracted more than 15 millino visitors, sometimes at the rate of 10,000 a day, each of whom has walked away with an indelible impression of awe in the face of the unimaginable. This lively, honest, behind-the-scenes account details the emotionally complex fifteen-year struggle surrounding the museum's birth.
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Public History: An Introductionby Barbara J. Howe, Emory KempISBN 089874881X (0-89874-881-X)
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Public History: Essays from the Fieldby Peter S. Lapaglia, James B. GardnerISBN 1575240211 (1-57524-021-1)
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Reel History: In Defense of Hollywoodby Robert Brent ToplinISBN 0700612009 (0-7006-1200-9)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Registration Methods for Small History Museumsby Daniel B. Reibel, Nina Swidler, Kurt Dongoske, Roger Anyon, Alan DownerISBN 0761989056 (0-7619-8905-6)
Softcover, Altamira Pr
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Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Centuryby John BodnarISBN 0691034958 (0-691-03495-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Saving America's Treasuresby Ira Block, Dwight YoungISBN 0792279425 (0-7922-7942-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saving America's Treasures'Book summary:America's treasures come in all shapes and sizes. Tucked away in every corner of the nation, they literally embody the history of our country and our culture -- but all too often they languish forgotten, the priceless legacy of our past crumbling quietly, inexorably, irreplaceably away. "As a nation," writes First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in her eloquent foreword, "we have allowed too much of our heritage -- the places and objects that comprise the collective memory of America -- to deteriorate. Their preservation is our sacred trust."
At the heart of this important effort is Save America's Treasures, a partnership between the White House Millennium Council and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, nourished by countless ordinary citizens who have pitched in to help identify and reclaim hundreds of landmark artifacts, buildings, and sites. Taken together, they tell the story of America. This fascinating, vividly illustrated book is a wonderfully varied showcase of 47 treasures, carefully selected to display the extraordinary breadth of the project's scope and profiled in a concise text that captures its place in our national chronicle.
Each chapter features an essay by such prominent writers as Thomas Mallon, Francine Prose, and Ian Frazier, who explore the many facets of the American experience: politics and government, invention and industry, quiet congregations at prayer, and exuberant crowds at play. We visit San Esteban del Rey, the mission at the heart of what is thought to be the oldest continuously inhabited community in America, and the African Meeting House in Boston, where black Americans have worshiped for two centuries. In a Texas airfield hangar weogle a glamour girl painted lovingly onto the sleek nose of a World War II-era bomber; in Florida, we gawk at the opulent Gulf Coast palazzo of circus impresario John Ringling; in New Jersey, we peer into the prolific world of Thomas Edison, whose West Orange laboratory is a living mirror of his fertile mind. Along with these highlighted landmarks, there's also a complete list of the more than 500 preservation projects gathered into Save America's Treasures.
In these pages, we find a remarkable portrait of America: her barns and lighthouses, her factories and fun houses, and above all, her people. Encompassing everything from the private papers of our Founding Fathers to Babe Ruth's personal scrapbooks, from the ancient cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde to Taliesin, home of our quintessentially modern architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, this evocative volume offers a glimpse of a marvelous but endangered legacy -- and a heartfelt call to safeguard our heritage before it vanishes forever. [via]
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Saving Monticelloby Marc LeepsonISBN 074320106X (0-7432-0106-X)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Saving Monticello: The Levy Family's Epic Quest to Rescue the House That Jeffereson Builtby Marc LeepsonISBN 0813922194 (0-8139-2219-4)
Softcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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A Shared Authorityby Michael FrischISBN 0791401332 (0-7914-0133-2)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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Since the World Began: Walt Disney World the First 25 Yearsby Jeff KurttiISBN 0786882190 (0-7868-8219-0)
Softcover, Hyperion Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Since the World Began: Walt Disney World the First 25 Years'Book summary:In celebration of Walt Disney World's twenty-fifth anniversary, a lavish history of Walt Disney's dreams offers the original concept drawings, photographs of the park's construction, environmental awareness programs, and the state-of-the-art technology that helps create the magical environment. Original. [via]
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Slavery And Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memoryby James Oliver Horton, Lois E. HortonISBN 1565849604 (1-56584-960-4)
Hardcover, New Pr
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Social Studies for Secondary Schools: Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teachby Alan J. SingerISBN 080584208X (0-8058-4208-X)
Softcover, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc
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Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing Worldby Eric FonerISBN 0809097052 (0-8090-9705-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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"History," wrote James Baldwin, "does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do."
Rarely has Baldwin's insight been more forcefully confirmed than during the past few decades. History has become a matter of public controversy, as Americans clash over such things as museum presentations, the flying of the Confederate flag, or reparations for slavery. So whose history is being written? Who owns it?
In Who Owns History?, Eric Foner proposes his answer to these and other questions about the historian's relationship to the world of the past and future. He reconsiders his own earlier ideas and those of the pathbreaking Richard Hofstadter. He also examines international changes during the past two decades--globalization, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of apartheid in South Africa--and their effects on historical consciousness. He concludes with considerations of the enduring, but often misunderstood, legacies of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. This is a provocative, even controversial, study of the reasons we care about history--or should.More editions of Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World:
The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust As Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museumby Michael Berenbaum, Arnold KramerISBN 080188358X (0-8018-8358-X)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Writing History, Writing Traumaby Dominick LA CapraISBN 0801864968 (0-8018-6496-8)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societiesby Sanford LevinsonISBN 082232220X (0-8223-2220-X)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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