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Table of Contents

  1. Erratum
  3. p. 5
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Editor's Corner

  1. Connecting Tensions
  2. James F. Brooks
  3. pp. 7-8
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National Council on Public History Presidential Address

  1. Finding Connections
  2. Alexandra M. Lord
  3. pp. 9-22
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Reports from the Field

  1. The Finger Saga: One Museum’s Quest to Turn the Macabre into the Meaningful
  2. Rebecca Mancuso
  3. pp. 23-42
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  1. Sun Up in a Sundown Town: Public History, Private Memory, and Racism in a Small City
  2. Ariel Beaujot
  3. pp. 43-68
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Archives and Public History

  1. “What We Do Crosses over to Activism”: The Politics and Practice of Community Archives
  2. Marika Cifor, Michelle Caswell, Alda Allina Migoni, Noah Geraci
  3. pp. 69-95
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Roundtable: The Future of the Presidential Library

  1. In Defense of Presidential Libraries: Why the Failure to Build an Obama Library Is Bad for Democracy
  2. Bob Clark
  3. pp. 96-103
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  1. A Brief Critique of the Public History in Presidential Libraries
  2. Benjamin Hufbauer
  3. pp. 104-110
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  1. Presidential Libraries and Their Foundations: Time for Reform
  2. Michael J. Devine
  3. pp. 111-115
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  1. Presidential Libraries Going Digital
  2. Meredith R. Evans
  3. pp. 116-121
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Reviews

Review Essay

  1. Remembering with Purpose: The Nation’s Civil War
  2. Rebekah Oakes
  3. pp. 122-125
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Exhibit Reviews

  1. WW1 America (review)
  2. Rachel Boyle
  3. pp. 126-132
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  1. Estonian National Museum (Eesti Rahva Muuseum) (review)
  2. James I. Deutsch
  3. pp. 132-134
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  1. Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education (review)
  2. Brian J. Carter
  3. pp. 135-141
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  1. People Made These Things: Connecting with the Makers of Our World (review)
  2. Linda L. Ivey
  3. pp. 141-143
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  1. Uprooted: Japanese American Farm Labor Camps during World War II (review)
  2. Stacey L. Smith
  3. pp. 143-149
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  1. ¡Murales Rebeldes! L.A. Chicana/o Murals under Siege (review)
  2. Monica Jovanovich
  3. pp. 149-154
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Digital Reviews

  1. The Nat Turner Project (review)
  2. Kenneth S. Greenberg
  3. pp. 155-156
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  1. Monroe Work Today (review)
  2. Sarah Roth
  3. pp. 156-158
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Book Reviews

  1. Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present by Steven Lubar (review)
  2. Sarah Anne Carter
  3. pp. 159-160
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  1. An American Association for State and Local History Guide to Making Public History ed. by Bob Beatty (review)
  2. Faye Sayer
  3. pp. 160-162
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  1. Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea: Crossing the Divide by Nan Kim (review)
  2. Rachael Miyung Joo
  3. pp. 162-164
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  1. Excavating Memory: Sites of Remembering and Forgetting ed. by Maria Theresia Starzmann, John R. Roby (review)
  2. Sean Field
  3. pp. 164-166
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  1. Crown Jewel Wilderness: Creating North Cascades National Park by Lauren Danner (review)
  2. Laura J. Feller
  3. pp. 166-168
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  1. Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China by Denise Y. Ho (review)
  2. Rebecca Karl
  3. pp. 168-170
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  1. The Place of Stone: Dighton Rock and the Erasure of America’s Indigenous Past by Douglas Hunter (review)
  2. David Krueger
  3. pp. 170-172
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  1. House Stories: The Meanings of Home in a New England Town by Beth Luey (review)
  2. Ron M. Potvin
  3. pp. 172-174
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  1. A Bloodless Victory: The Battle of New Orleans in History and Memory by Joseph F. Stoltz III. (review)
  2. David Curtis Skaggs
  3. pp. 174-176
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  1. Making History Matter: Kuroita Katsumi and the Construction of Imperial Japan by Lisa Yoshikawa (review)
  2. Birgit Tremml-Werner
  3. pp. 176-178
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  1. British Columbia By the Road: Car Culture and the Making of a Modern Landscape by Ben Bradley (review)
  2. Jonathan Peyton
  3. pp. 178-180
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