Defining Memory

Foreword to the first edition, David Kyvig Foreword to the second edition, Carol Kammen I. Frameworks 1. Why Local Museums Matter, Amy K. Levin 2 .Local History, Old Things to Look At, and a Sculptor's Vision: The Curriculum in Three Local Museums, Elizabeth Vallance II. The Rebirth of a Nation 3. Public History, Private Memory: Notes from the Ethnography of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, Richard Handler and Eric Gable 4. The House of the Seven Gables: A House Museum's Adaptation to Changing Societal Expectations since 1910, Tami Christopher 5. The Louisiana Old State Capitol, Change and Continuity, J. Daniel d'Oney III. Nostalgia as Epistemology 6. The Small Town We Never Were: Old Cowtown Museum Faces an Urban Past, Jay M. Price 7. ""The Dream Then and Now"": Democratic Nostalgia and the Living Museum at Arthurdale, West Virginia, Stuart Patterson 8. History Lessons: The Selling the John Dillinger Museum, Heather Perry IV. Museums at Risk: Changing Publics 9. The Politics of Prehistory: Conflict and Resolution at Dickson Mounds Museum, Donna Langford 10. ""Such is Our Heritage:"" Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museums, Jessie Embry and Mauri L. Nelson 11. ""A Repository for Bottled Monsters and Medical Curiosities"": The Evolution of the Army Medical Museum, Michael Rhode and James Connor V. Challenging the Major Museum 12. Objects of Dis/order: Articulating Curiosities and Engaging People at the Freakatorium, Lucian Gomoll 13. Cities, Museums, and City Museums, Eric Sandweiss VI. Museums Moving Forward 14. Crowdsourcing the Art Museum, Leah Mitchell 15. ""Womanhood,"" Whiteness, and Weddings: On the Complexities of Carnton Plantation, Joshua G. Adair VII. No Business Like Show Business 16. Business as Usual: Museums, Money, and 9/11 Memories, Amy K. Levin 17. Conclusion: Museums and the American Imagination