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Presenting the past : essays on history and the public / edited by Susan Porter Benson, Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenzweig.

Contributor Benson, Susan Porter, 1943-

Imprint:Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1986.

Descriptionxxiv, 424 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

Note:Includes index.

Note:I. Packing the past: mass culture and historical consciousness -- The memory of history / Michael H. Frisch -- Marketing the past: American Heritage and popular history in the United States / Roy Rosenzweig -- History in the fast lane: Howard Fast and the historical novel / Priscilla Murolo -- Into the minds of babes: children's books and the past / Joshua Brown -- John Ford's Drums Along the Mohawk: the making of an American myth / Edward Countryman -- The painted mirror: historical re-creation from the panorama to the docudrama / Eric Breitbart -- Anatomy of a disinternment: the unmaking of Afro-American history / Gertrude Fraser and Reginald Butler -- Professionalizing the past: reflections on applied history -- Visiting the past: history museums in the United States / Michael Wallace -- Exhibiting women's history / Barbara Melosh and Christina Simmons -- Corporate histroy, or giving history the business / Daniel J. Walkowitz -- Pitfalls along the path of public history / Terence O'Donnell -- Politicizing the past: toward a people's history -- Oral history and community involvement: the Baltimore neighborhood heritage project / Linda Shopes -- A report on doing history from below: the brass workers history project / Jeremy Brecher -- History's gay ghetto: the contradictions of growth in lesbian and gay history / Lisa Duggan -- Feminism, film, and public history / Sonya Michel -- A faithful witness: Afro-American public history in historical perspective, 1828-1984 / Jeffrey C. Stewart and Fath Davis Ruffins -- Engaging in people's history: the Massachusetts history workshop / James R. Green.

Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. 361-419.



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Benson, Susan Porter, 1943-
Brier, Stephen, 1946-
Rosenzweig, Roy.
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Critical perspectives on the past
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Public history -- United States.
Popular culture -- United States -- Historiography.
United States -- History -- Study and teaching.
United States -- Historiography.