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Defining Memory
Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities. American Association for State and Local History
Synopsis
This updated edition of Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities offers readers multiple lenses for viewing and discussing local institutions. New chapters are included in a section titled "Museums Moving Forward," which analyzes the ways in which local museums have come to adopt digital technologies in selecting items for exhibitions as well as the complexities of creating institutions devoted to marginalized histories.
In addition to the new chapters, the second edition updates existing chapters, presenting changes to the museums discussed. It features expanded discussions of how local museums treat (or ignore) racial and ethnic diversity and concludes with a look at how business relationships, political events, and the economy affect what is shown and how it is displayed in local museums.
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The second edition of Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities takes one of the essential themes of the first edition - the important and complex relationship that place holds for local museums - and brings it squarely into the hot issues of the 21st century. Expanded and new essays tackle subjects that augment the many contributions that local museums bring to our communities and to the country at large. Topics such as museums and race, relevance, and the never-ending narrative of how museums negotiate political reality underscores the raison d'etre for such institutions, as eloquently stated in Carol Kammen's foreword: 'knowledge of the past, and of who we are today, is not something only an expert knows, but is something for which we all search and to which we all contribute.' -- Judith Margles, Director, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education