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Private History in Public: Exhibition and the Settings of Everyday Life (American Association for State and Local History)

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In small community museums, truck stops, restaurants, bars, barbershops, schools, and churches, people create displays to tell the histories that matter to them. Much of this history is personal: circle of relatives history, community history, history of a trade, or the history of something thought to be lower than genteel. It’s incessantly history in keeping with the historical record, but additionally in keeping with feelings, beliefs, and memory. It’s neglected history. Private History in Public is about those history exhibits that complicate the public/private dichotomy, exhibits that serve to give an explanation for communities, families, and individuals to outsiders and tie insiders together through a shared narrative of historical experience. Tammy S. Gordon looks beyond the large professionalized museum exhibits that have dominated scholarship in museum studies and public history and offers a new way of figuring out the broad spectrum of exhibition types in the US.

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