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Private History in Public : Exhibition and the Settings of Everyday Life, Paperback / softback Book

Private History in Public : Exhibition and the Settings of Everyday Life Paperback / softback

Part of the American Association for State and Local History series

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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: family history, community history, history of a trade, or the history of something considered less than genteel.

It is often history based on the historical record, but also based on feelings, beliefs, and memory.

It is neglected history. Private History in Public is about those history exhibits that complicate the public/private dichotomy, exhibits that serve to explain 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 understanding the broad spectrum of exhibition types in the United States.

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