Swigger 6-7
graduate students read https://www-jstor-org.libproxy.clemson.edu/stable/3106307
or https://www-jstor-org.libproxy.clemson.edu/stable/3105231
(use VPN if off campus)
New social history
Culture Wars and the Enola Gay exhibit at the Air and Space
Museum
you can see the change in views in the comment that the site was
"plagued by nostalgia" (p.147)
Is the new social history a return to Ford's ideas?
the 1981 curriculum committee review made education the only
mission
focus on industrialization and community (not "self made men")
third person interpretation=the interpreter is dressed
historically, but does not assume a character role. The
interpreter speaks and demonstrates information about the past,
but from a present-day perspective.
How should they present enslavement and Jim Crow? (p. 158)
- new social history--historians
are criticizing the ordinary childhoods of white men
approach
- one group wants nostalgia,
happy history
- NAACP was concerned about
trivializing history
- African-Americans wanted a
view of their history that made them active, gave them agency,
rather than seeing them as passive victims (visiting a
museum shouldn't be traumatizing)
Disney World with authentic exhibits ??? (p. 171)
seems to have been a successful strategy to move back
more toward entertainment than education
- adding a IMAX theater (pioneered
at NASM in 1976)
