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• ISBN: 0252060644 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780252060649 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 0252014006 (hard : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780252014000 (hard : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: xxvi, 333 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
• Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1989.

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Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Designing the past : history-museum exhibitions from Peale to the present / Gary Kulik -- 2. The presentation of urban history in big-city museums / Michael Frisch -- 3. Living-history museums / Warren Leon and Margaret Piatt -- 4. Historic houses / John A. Herbst -- 5. Pioneer museums / David Lowenthal -- 6. From battle ground to pleasure ground : Gettysburg as a historic site / John S. Patterson -- 7. Mickey Mouse history : portraying the past at Disney world / Michael Wallace -- 8. Speaking of women : museums' representation of women's history / Barbara Melosh -- 9. Afro-Americans and museums : towards a policy of inclusion / James Oliver Horton and Spencer R. Crew -- 10. Tools, technologies, and contexts : interpreting the history of American technics / Joseph J. Corn -- 11. Machines, workers, and capitalists : the interpretation of textile industrialization in New England museums / Mary H. Blewett -- 12. History museums and material culture / Thomas J. Schlereth

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Historical museums > United States.
Historic sites > United States.
Historic sites > Interpretive programs > United States.