Bibliograph

Curating America's painful past, memory, museums, and the national imagination, Tim Gruenewald

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Curating America's painful past, memory, museums, and the national imagination, Tim Gruenewald

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Curating America's painful past

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1221014381

Responsibility statement

Tim Gruenewald

Sub title

memory, museums, and the national imagination

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"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of 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

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