Curating America : journeys through storyscapes of the American past

Curating America : journeys through storyscapes of the American past / by Richard Rabinowitz ; with illustrations by Richard T. Hoyen.

Author/creator	Rabinowitz, Richard
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Description	pages cm
Subject(s)	Public history--United States --History --20th century. Public history--United States --History --21st century. Museums--United States --History --20th century. Museums--United States --History --21st century.

Contents	Becoming a public historian. Discovering a calling ; No ideas but in things ; Twentieth-century minds dissecting nineteenth-century problems ; Other hands, other minds ; The elements of interpretation -- Finding ourselves : interpreting place. History, dislocated ; Envisioning place on gallery walls ; Museum visitors on center stage ; Museums without walls ; Visitors reinsert human presence into the landscape ; Storyscapes everywhere -- Beholding : interpreting stuff. The object of the object ; The object as evidence and experience ; The invention of the cluster -- Belonging : interpreting identity and community. The body politic in the museum ; History turns critical ; Taking the new social history public ; The community as curator ; Can the history museum fix it? -- Postscript -- A reader's reflections.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/form	History.
LCCN	2016009980
ISBN	9781469629506 (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN	146962950X (cloth ; alk. paper)
ISBN	(ebook)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	E175.9 .R33 2016	✔ Available	Place Hold