TY  - BOOK
AU  - Post,Robert C.
TI  - Who owns America's past?: the Smithsonian and the problem of history 
SN  - 1421411008 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - Q 11 P857w 2013
U1  - 069.0973 
PY  - 2013///, c2013
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - The Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Smithsonian Institution
KW  - History
KW  - Historia
KW  - Museums
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Public history
KW  - Museos
KW  - Estados Unidos
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; A chain of events linking past to present -- Modernization -- A worthy home for national treasures -- Allies and critics -- To join in a Smithsonian renaissance -- A special kind of insight -- The winded gospel -- Celebration or education? -- A crisis of representation -- Small's world -- Timely and relevant themes and methods of presentation
N2  - "From an insider's perspective, Robert C. Post ... offers insight into the politics of display and the interpretation of history. Never before has a book about the Smithsonian detailed the recent and dramatic shift from collection-driven shows, with artifacts meant to speak for themselves, to concept-driven exhibitions, in which objects aim to tell a story, displayed like illustrations in a book."--Dust jacket flap
ER  -