History Comes Alive : Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s /
During the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, millions of Americans engaged with the past in brand-new ways. They became absorbed by historical miniseries like Roots, visited museums with new exhibits that immersed them in the past, propelled works of historical fiction onto the bestseller list, and par...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Past as present : history on television from the 1950s to the 1970s
- The commemoration revolution : planning the federal bicentennial
- Preservation is people : saving and collecting as democratic practice
- The spaces of history : museums, interactivity, and immersion
- Cultural logics of reenactment : embodied engagement with the American past
- History comes alive : activism, identification, and the American archive.