Museums, Monuments, and National Parks Toward a New Genealogy of Public History

Name: Museums, Monuments, and National Parks Toward a New Genealogy of Public History
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ISBN: 9781558499409

ISBN-10: 1558499407

ISBN-13: 9781558499409

Edition: 2012

Authors: Denise D. Meringolo, Denise D. Meringolo

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The rapid expansion of the field of public history since the 1970s has led many to believe that it is a relatively new profession. In this book, Denise D. Meringolo shows that the roots of public history actually reach back to the nineteenth century, when the federal government entered into the work of collecting and preserving the nation's natural and cultural resources. Yet it was not until the emergence of the education-oriented National Park Service history program in the 1920s and 1930s that public history found an institutional home. Even then, tensions between administrators in Washington and practitioners on the ground at National Parks, monuments, and museums continued to redefine…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Publication date: 6/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.90" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.078



Acknowledgments


Prologue: A New Kind of Technician In Search of the Culture of Public History



Science and Government Defining the Landscape



A Matter of National Dignity Education and Federal Authority



Managing the Landscape National Parks, National Monuments, and the Use of Public Land



Turning Nature into History The National Park Service and the Culture of Public History



Losing Their Identity National Park Service Museums and Federal Collections



Ignorant and Local-Minded Influences Historic Sites and the Expansion of the National Park Service



Real Park Service Men On the Ground and in the Books



Whom Do We Serve? Public History and the Question of Authority



Park Service Diggers Public Historians and the Problem of Status


Conclusion Toward a New Genealogy of Public History


A Note on Sources


Notes


Index


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