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Curating America's painful past : memory, museums, and the national imagination
- Title
- Curating America's painful past : memory, museums, and the national imagination / Tim Gruenewald.
- Author
- Gruenewald, Tim
- Publication
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2021]
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 280 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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 Smithsonian Museum of American History, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the new National Museum of African American History and Culture. Paying close attention to museum narratives and visual displays, Gruenewald explains how even some of the most harrowing and disturbing aspects of America's history have been and are still framed to support core American ideologies"--
- Series Statement
- Culture America
- Uniform Title
- Culture America.
- Subject
- Smithsonian Institution
- Historical museums > United States > Case studies
- Museums > Curatorship > United States > Case studies
- Museums and minorities > United States > Case studies
- Collective memory > United States
- Collective memory
- Historical museums
- Historiography
- Museums and minorities
- Museums > Curatorship
- Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)
- United States > Historiography
- United States
- Washington (D.C.) > The Mall
- Genre/Form
- Case studies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-8174
- ISBN
- 9780700632398
- 0700632395
- LCCN
- 2020048508
- 40030730185
- OCLC
- 1221014381
- Author
- Gruenewald, Tim, author.
- Title
- Curating America's painful past : memory, museums, and the national imagination / Tim Gruenewald.
- Publisher
- Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Culture AmericaCulture America.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030730185
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-8174