From the Book - Research Collections
Introduction / Susan Porter Benson, Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenzweig
I. Packaging 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 : childrens 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 disinterment : the unmaking of Afro-American history / Gertrude Fraser and Reginald Butler
II. Professionalizing the past : reflections on applied history
Visiting the past : history of museums in the United States / Michael Wallace
Reflections on the history of historic preservation / Michael Wallace
Exhibiting women's history / Barbara Melosh and Christina Simmons
Corporate history, or giving history the business / Daniel J. Walkowitz
Pitfalls along the path of public history / Terence O'Donnell
III. 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 perspectives, 1828-1984 / Jeffrey C. Stewart and Faith Davis Ruffins
Engaging in people's history : the Massachusetts history workshop / James R. Green.
