Who Owns America's Past? The Smithsonian and the Problem of History

Name: Who Owns America's Past? The Smithsonian and the Problem of History
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ISBN: 9781421411002

ISBN-10: 1421411008

ISBN-13: 9781421411002

Edition: 2013

Authors: Robert C. Post

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In 2003, when the Smithsonian Institution announced plans to display the Enola Gay, the B-29 used in the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the ensuing political uproar caught the museum entirely unprepared. As the largest such complex in the world, the Smithsonian cares for and displays hundreds of thousands of objects and has exhibited everything from deadly weapons to taxidermic trophy animals to Dorothy’s ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz. Why did this particular object arouse such controversy? In Who Owns America’s Past?, Robert C. Post, a retired curator with more than thirty years of experience, offers insight into the politics of display and the interpretation of history from an…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 10/22/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Matthew W. Finkinis Albert J. Harno and Edward W. Cleary Chair in Law, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Law. He lives in Champaign.Robert C. Postis Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law, Yale Law School. He lives in New Haven, CT.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations



A Chain of Events Linking Past to Present



Modernization



A "Worthy Home for National Treasures



Allies and Critics



To Join in a Smithsonian Renaissance



A Special Kind of Insight



The Winged Gospel



Celebration or Education?



A Crisis of Representation



Small's World



Timely and Relevant Themes and Methods of Presentation


Epilogue: What Is the Story?


Notes


Index