Commemoration (eBook)

The American Association for State and Local History Guide

Seth C. Bruggeman (Herausgeber)

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2017
174 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-7920-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Commemoration:The American Association for State and Local History Guide serves as a handbook for all who contend daily with the ground-level complexities of commemoration. It covers varieties of commemorative scope and genre, planning commemorative events, and possibilities for assessing and sustaining commemorative impact.

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Commemoration: The American Association for State and Local History Guide serves as a handbook for historic site managers, heritage professionals, and all manner of public historians who contend daily with the ground-level complexities of commemoration. Its fourteen short essays are intended as tools for practitioners, students, and anyone else confronted with common problems in commemorative practice today. Of particular concern are strategies for expanding commemoration across the panoply of American identities, confronting tragedy and difficult pasts, and doing responsible work in the face of persistent economic and political turmoil. A special afterword explores the role of emotion in modern commemoration and what it suggests about possibilities for engaging new audiences.

Autor

Seth C. Bruggeman is an associate professor of History at Temple University, where he periodically directs the Center for Public History. His books include Born in the USA: Birth and Commemoration in American Public Memory, and Here, George Washington Was Born: Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monument.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Conundrum and Nuance in American Memory - Seth C. Bruggeman2. The Exhibition and the Funeral: Commemoration as Display - Tammy S. Gordon 3. Festivals as a Commemorative Genre - William S. Walker4. Reenactment: Performing the Past - Cathy Stanton5. A Local Commemoration of National Significance - Anne C. Reilly6. Get Territorial: Idaho at 150 - Janet L. Gallimore7. Global Histories and Cross-Border Commemoration - Adam Hjorthén8. Sir John A. Macdonald and the Problem of Great Men - Jean-Pierre Morin9. Gay is Good: Commemorating LGBTQ History - Kenneth C. Turino10. Sacred Subjects: Religion and Commemoration in America - Devin C. Manzullo-Thomas11. Commemoration as Activism - Patrick Grossi12. Alive in Our Imagination: The Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War - Rick Beard and Bob Beatty13. Commemorating Tragedy at Mother Emanuel AME Church - George W. McDaniel14. Afterword: Commemoration, Conversation, and Public Feeling in America Today - Erika Doss

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.10.2017
• Reihe/Serie: American Association for State and Local History
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Schlagworte: anniversaries • Business Management • Celebrations • event planning • historical site management • how to • Interpreting History • museum management • Nonprofit • plan an event • professional development • Public History
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-7920-6 / 1442279206
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-7920-9 / 9781442279209