Curating America's Painful Past : Memory, Museums, and the National Imagination /

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"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gruenewald, Tim (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Smithsonian Institution.
Museums > Curatorship.
Museums and minorities.
Historiography.
Historical museums.
Collective memory.
Memoire collective > États-Unis.
Musees et minorites > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Histoire > Musees > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Collective memory > United States.
Museums and minorities > United States > Case studies.
Museums > Curatorship > United States > Case studies.
Historical museums > United States > Case studies.
Washington (D.C.) > The Mall.
United States.
Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)
United States > Historiography.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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