[PDF.19pu] Domesticating History: The Political Origins of America's House Museums

Domesticating History: The Political Origins of America's House Museums

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Important contribution to public history, museum and heritage studies|By Arthur Digbee|This book reviews the political history behind “house museums” in the United States, historic sites memorializing places where famous Americans lived. West shows us the origin of the house museum movement among politically-active but disenfranchised women, examines how professiona| |“Extremely well-researched and judicious. . . . The most distinctive aspect of the book is the author's persistent emphasis upon the political context that shaped the creation of those house museums. . . . [F]illed with delicious ironies.”—Mi

Celebrating the lives of famous men and women, historic house museums showcase restored rooms and period furnishings, and portray in detail their former occupants' daily lives. But behind the gilded molding and curtain brocade lie the largely unknown, politically charged stories of how the homes were first established as museums. Focusing on George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, and the Booke...

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