Contested terrain: History, museums, and the public

Public Historian

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 11-21

  Gardner, James B ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

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EID: 20844444354     PISSN: 02723433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/tph.2004.26.4.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (22)

1. See ad in the Washington Post, 15 February 2002.
2. Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen, The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), 4.
3. Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen, The Presence of the Past, 195.
4. John Kuo Wei Tchen, "Back to the Basics: Who Is Researching and Interpreting for Whom?" Journal of American History 81 (December 1994): 1006.
5. Lonnie G. Bunch, "Museum in an Age of Uncertainty: Fighting the Good Fight," Museum News (March/April 1995), 35.
6. Alan Brinkley, "Historians and Their Publics," Journal of American History 81 (December 1994): 1029.
7. Jacqueline Trescott, "Enola Gay Draws More Flak: Petitioners Want Atom Bomb Deaths Added to Exhibit," Washington Post, 6 November 2003.
8. For a discussion of the issues surrounding the Enola Gay and other controversies of the "history wars" in the 1990s, see "History and the Public: What Can We Handle? A Round Table about History after the Enola Gay Controversy," Journal of American History 82 (December 1995): 1029-1144.
9. Steven Lubar and Kathleen M. Kendrick, Legacies: Collecting America's History at the Smithsonian (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001).
10. Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen, The Presence of the Past, 13, 22, 115-16, 127, 196-97.
11. A virtual version of the exhibition can be explored at www.americanhistory.si.edu. The companion volume to the exhibit is Janet F. Davidson and Michael S. Sweeney, On the Move: Transportation and the American Story (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2003).
12. Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth about History (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1994), 289.
13. Edward T. Linenthal, "Committing History in Public," Journal of American History 81 (December 1994): 990.
14. For the story of Charlotte Hawkins Brown, go to the America on the Move virtual exhibition at www.americanhistory.si.edu. See also Janet F. Davidson and Michael S. Sweeney, On the Move, 219-21.
15. Appendix F: NMAH's Initial Vision for Transforming the National Museum of American History (2001), Report of the Blue Ribbon Commission on the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, March 2002, pp. 2, 6.
16. Carl Becker, "Everyman His Own Historian," American Historical Review 37 (January 1932): 233-55.
17. Steven Lubar, "In the Footsteps of Perry: The Smithsonian Goes to Japan," The Public Historian 17, no. 3 (Summer 1995): 46.
18. Edward T. Linenthal, "Can Museums Achieve a Balance Between Memory and History?" Chronicle of Higher Education, 10 Feb. 1995, p. B2.
19. See also, Barbara Franco, "Doing History in Public: Balancing Historical Fact with Public Meaning," Perspectives (May/June 1995): 5-8;
20. and Steven Lubar, "Exhibiting Memories," Museum News 75 (July/August 1996): 60-61, 71-72.
21. For a discussion of the collaboration of NMAH and the Center on this project, see James T. Sparrow, "On the Web: The September 11 Digital Archive," in Public History: Essays from the Field, ed. James B. Gardner and Peter S. LaPaglia, rev. ed. (Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Publishing Company, 2004), 397-415.
22. Quoted in Paul Goldberger, "Historical Shows on Trial: Who Judges?" New York Times, 11 February 1996.