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Robert C. Post

Who Owns America's Past?

The Smithsonian and the Problem of History

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In 1994, when the National Air and Space Museum announced plans to display the Enola Gay, the B-29 sent to destroy Hiroshima with an atomic bomb, the ensuing political uproar caught the museum's parent Smithsonian Institution entirely unprepared. As the largest such complex in the world, the Smithsonian cares for millions of objects and has displayed everything from George Washington's sword to moon rocks to Dorothy's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz. Why did this particular object arouse such controversy? From an insider's perspective, Robert C. Post's Who Owns America's Past? offers insight into the politics of display and the interpreta… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4214-1101-9
  • EAN: 9781421411019
  • Produktnummer: 35555091
  • Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 0 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor


Robert C. Post, now curator emeritus, was employed by the Smithsonian for twenty-three years, beginning in 1973. He was responsible for several technological collections and story-driven exhibits. The author of Urban Mass Transit: The Life Story of a Technology and High Performance: The Culture and Technology of Drag Racing, 1950¿2000, he has been the recipient of the Society for the History of Technology's Leonardo da Vinci Medal. He also edited the quarterly journal Technology and Culture.

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