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Curating the American Past: A Memoir of a Quarter Century at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
University of Arkansas Press, 2022 Paper: 978-1-68226-197-2 | eISBN: 978-1-61075-764-5 Library of Congress Classification E169.1.D27 2022 Dewey Decimal Classification 069.092
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In Curating the American Past, Pete Daniel reveals how curators collect objects, plan exhibits, and bring alive the country’s complex and exciting history. In vivid detail, Daniel recounts the exhilaration of innovative research, the joys of collaboration, and the rewards of mentoring new generations of historians. In a career distinguished by prize-winning publications and pathbreaking exhibitions, Daniel also confronted the challenges of serving as a public historian tasked with protecting a definitive American museum from the erosion of scholarly standards. Curating the American Past offers a wealth of museum wisdom, illuminating the crucial role that dedicated historians and curators serve within our most important repositories of cultural memory. See other books on: Artists, Architects, Photographers | Memoir | Museum Studies | Officials and employees | Washington (D.C.) See other titles from University of Arkansas Press |
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Curating the American Past: A Memoir of a Quarter Century at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
University of Arkansas Press, 2022
Paper: 978-1-68226-197-2
eISBN: 978-1-61075-764-5
Paper: 978-1-68226-197-2
eISBN: 978-1-61075-764-5
In Curating the American Past, Pete Daniel reveals how curators collect objects, plan exhibits, and bring alive the country’s complex and exciting history. In vivid detail, Daniel recounts the exhilaration of innovative research, the joys of collaboration, and the rewards of mentoring new generations of historians. In a career distinguished by prize-winning publications and pathbreaking exhibitions, Daniel also confronted the challenges of serving as a public historian tasked with protecting a definitive American museum from the erosion of scholarly standards. Curating the American Past offers a wealth of museum wisdom, illuminating the crucial role that dedicated historians and curators serve within our most important repositories of cultural memory.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
