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Index
Acknowledgments
Foreword
PART I: Frameworks
1 Why Local Museums Matter
2 Local History, “Old Things to Look At,” and a Sculptor’s Vision: Exploring Local Museums through Curriculum Theory
PART II: The Rebirth of a Nation
3 Public History, Private Memory: Notes from the Ethnography of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A
4 The House of the Seven Gables: A House Museum’s Adaptation to Changing Societal Expectations since 1910
5 Louisiana’s Old State Capitol Museum: Castle on the Mississippi
PART III: Nostalgia as Epistemology
6 The Small Town We Never Were: Old Cowtown Museum Faces an Urban Past
7 “The Dream Then and Now”: Democratic Nostalgia and the Living Museum at Arthurdale, West Virginia
8 History Lessons: Selling the John Dillinger Museum
PART IV Museums at Risk: Changing Publics
9 The Politics of Prehistory: Conflict and Resolution at Dickson Mounds Museum
10 “Such is Our Heritage”: Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museums
11 “A Repository for Bottled Monsters and Medical Curiosities”: The Evolution of the Army Medical Museum
PART V: Challenging the Major Museum
12 Objects of Dis/Order: Articulating Curiosities and Engaging People at the Freakatorium
13 Cities, Museums, and City Museums
PART VI: No Business Like Show Business
14 Business as Usual: Can Museums Be Bought?
15 Conclusion: Museums and the American Imagination
Selected Bibliography
About the Contributors
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