03655nam 2200625 450 991081701170332120230802002352.01-61376-211-9(CKB)3280000000002749(PromptCat)40021130883(MH)013315822-5(SSID)ssj0000760173(PQKBManifestationID)11480709(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000760173(PQKBWorkID)10800839(PQKB)10247418(MiAaPQ)EBC4533134(OCoLC)830023618(MdBmJHUP)muse17637(Au-PeEL)EBL4533134(CaPaEBR)ebr11252889(EXLCZ)99328000000000274920160913h20122012 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMuseums, monuments, and national parks toward a new genealogy of public history /Denise D. MeringoloAmherst, [Massachusetts] ;Boston, Massachusetts :University of Massachusetts Press,2012.©20121 online resource (207 pages )illPublic History in Historical Perspective1-55849-939-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue : a new kind of technician : in search of the culture of public history -- A matter of national dignity : education and federal authority -- Managing the landscape : national parks, national monuments, and the use of public land -- Losing their identity : National Park Service museums and federal collections -- Ignorant and local-minded influences : historic sites and the expansion of the National Park Service -- Real park service men : on the ground and in the books -- Park service diggers : public historians and the problem of status -- Conclusion : toward a new genealogy of public history."The rapid expansion of the field of public history since the 1970's has led many to believe that it is a relatively new profession. In this book, Denise D. Meringolo shows that the roots of public history actually reach back to the nineteenth century, when the federal government entered into the work of collecting and preserving the nation's natural and cultural resources. Yet it was not until the emergence of the education-oriented National Park Service history program in the 1920's and 1930's that public history found an institutional home. Even then, tensions between administrators in Washington and practitioners on the ground at National Parks, monuments, and museums continued to redefine the scope and substance of the field. The process of definition persists to this day as public historians establish a growing presence in major universities throughout the United States and abroad."--Page 4 of cover.Public history in historical perspective.Public historyUnited StatesHistoryHistoric preservationUnited StatesHistoryHistoric sitesConservation and restorationUnited StatesHistoryHistorical museumsUnited StatesHistoryPublic historyHistory.Historic preservationHistory.Historic sitesConservation and restorationHistory.Historical museumsHistory.973Meringolo Denise D.1968-1349737MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817011703321Museums, monuments, and national parks3993952UNINA