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Inside the Lost Museum
Museum lovers know that energy and mystery run through every exhibition. Steven Lubar explains work behind the scenes—collecting, preserving, displaying, and using art and artifacts in teaching, research, and community-building—through historical and contemporary examples, especially the lost but reimagined Jenks Museum at Brown University.
Inside the Lost Museum
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Explore -- Part I: Collect -- 1. Why Collect? -- 2. Collectable -- 3. Acquisitions -- 4. In the Field -- 5. Who Collects? -- Part II: Preserve -- 6. Into the Storeroom -- 7. Paperwork -- 8. The Ethics of Objects -- Part III: Display -- 9. Objects, Stories, and Visitors -- 10. Objects on Display -- 11. Organizations and Juxtapositions -- 12. Explanations and Encounters -- 13. Setting the Scene -- 14. Turned Inside Out -- Part IV: Use -- 15. What Use Is a Museum? -- 16. Museums Make Communities -- 17. Learning from Things -- 18. Teaching with Things -- 19. The Promise of Museums -- Coda: Critique -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index
Legacies
The Smithsonian Institution has been America's museum since 1846. What do its vast collections -- from the ruby slippers to a piece of Plymouth Rock, first ladies' gowns to patchwork quilts, a Model T Ford to a customized Ford LTD low rider -- tell Americans about themselves? In this lavishly illustrated guide to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, Steven Lubar and Kathleen M. Kendrick tell the stories behind more than 250 of the museum's treasures, many of them never before photographed for publication. These stories not only reveal what America as a nation has decided to save and why but also speak to changing visions of national identity. As the authors demonstrate, vie...
The Matter of History
The Matter of History links the history of people with the history of things through a bold new materialist theory of the past.
InfoCulture
Based on an exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
Engines of Change
Engines of Change chronicles the American Industrial Revolution from about 1790 to 1860, specifically looking at some of the key machine inventions that drove this revolution forward. Steven Lubar examines not only the inventions, but also the impact these machines had on American work, community, profit and progress. With marvelous illustrations and photographs from the exhibit, Engines of Change surveys the revolutionary implements, from the spinning wheel, sawmill and gristmill, to the creation of the steam engine.
History from Things
History from Things explores the many ways objects—defined broadly to range from Chippendale tables and Italian Renaissance pottery to seventeenth-century parks and a New England cemetery—can reconstruct and help reinterpret the past. Eighteen essays describe how to “read” artifacts, how to “listen to” landscapes and locations, and how to apply methods and theories to historical inquiry that have previously belonged solely to archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, and conservation scientists. Spanning vast time periods, geographical locations, and academic disciplines, History from Things leaps the boundaries between fields that use material evidence to understand the past. The book expands and redirects the study of material culture—an emerging field now building a common base of theory and a shared intellectual agenda.
His and Hers
This volume will be of interest to historians in a wide range of fields.
Disrupting the Digital Humanities
All too often, defining a discipline becomes more an exercise of exclusion than inclusion. Disrupting the Digital Humanities seeks to rethink how we map disciplinary terrain by directly confronting the gatekeeping impulse of many other so-called field-defining collections. What is most beautiful about the work of the Digital Humanities is exactly the fact that it can't be tidily anthologized. In fact, the desire to neatly define the Digital Humanities (to filter the DH-y from the DH) is a way of excluding the radically diverse work that actually constitutes the field. This collection, then, works to push and prod at the edges of the Digital Humanities - to open the Digital Humanities rather ...
Undergraduate Research in Religious Studies
Undergraduate Research in Religious Studies provides students and faculty with an invaluable guide to conducting research projects across all areas in the study of religion. With an emphasis on student-faculty collaboration, this concise book addresses the key areas, methods, and practical issues to inform the practice of original undergraduate research across a wide range of subdisciplines. In fourteen short chapters, the authors lay out the stages of the research process and different research methodologies; discuss approaches, examples, and ethical issues particular to religious studies; and address the unique value and challenges of collaborative research with undergraduate students, including case studies of student-faculty collaboration. Designed to be utilized by students and faculty as both a textbook and reference, this book offers an essential resource for all those engaging in or leading undergraduate research across religious studies.
