Publication

2021 - University Press of Kansas

Language

English

Word Count

72,000 words, Guess

Page Count

288 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780700632398
  • ISBN-100700632395
  • Library of Congress Control Number2020048508
  • OCLC Control Number1221014381
  • Better World Books9780700632398
and 2 more

Classifications

  • LCCE175.4 .G78 2021

Description

"This book argues that acknowledgment of painful pasts at the geographic and ideological center of American national identity is crucial for addressing inequities in the present. The study analyzes four major museums on the National Mall that are dedicated to traumatic histories: the Smithsonian Museum of American History, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the National Museum of the American Indian, and the new National Museum of African American History and Culture. Paying close attention to museum narratives and visual displays, Gruenewald explains how even some of the most harrowing and disturbing aspects of America's history have been and are still framed to support core American ideologies"--

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