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  • Teachable Monuments

    Using Public Art to Spark Dialogue and Confront Controversy

    Edited by Sierra Rooney, Jennifer Wingate, Harriet F. Senie ...
    Monuments around the world have become the focus of intense and sustained discussions, activism, vandalism, and removal. Since the convulsive events of 2015 and 2017, during which white supremacists committed violence in the shadow of Confederate symbols, and the 2020 nationwide protests against racism and police brutality, protesters and politicians in the United States have removed Confederate ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Breaking the Bronze Ceiling

    Women, Memory, and Public Space

    by Valentina Rozas-Krause, Andrew M. Shanken, Carolina Aguilera, Manuela Badilla Rajevic, Daniel E. Coslett, Erika Doss, Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy, Daniel Herwitz, Katherine Hite0, Lauren Kroiz1, Ana Maria León2, Fernando Luis Martínez Nespral3, Pia Montealegre4, Sierra Rooney5, Daniela Sandler6, Kirk Savage7, Susan Slyomovics8, Marita Sturken9, Amanda Su0, Dell Upton1, Nathaniel Robert Walker2, Mechtild Widrich3 ...
    Series series Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
    Breaking the Bronze Ceiling uncovers a glaring omission in our global memorial landscape—the conspicuous absence of women. Exploring this neglected narrative, the book emerges as the foremost guide to women's memorialization across diverse cultures and ages. As global memorials come under intense examination, with metropolises vying for a more inclusive recognition of female contributions, this ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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  • Slavery and Public History

    The Tough Stuff of American Memory

    by Ira Berlin, David W. Blight, Gary B. Nash ...
    "A fascinating collection of essays" by eminent historians exploring how we teach, remember, and confront the history and legacy of American slavery ( Booklist Online).In recent years, the culture wars have called into question the way America's history of slavery is depicted in books, films, television programs, historical sites, and museums. In the first attempt to examine the historiography of ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The South

    Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

    by Adolph L. Reed Jr. ...
    Series series Jacobin
    Blending personal memoir with historical accounts, this searing history of the Jim Crow South captures the realities of those who experienced it—and shines a light on its enduring legacy.The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat but not a nuanced ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Do Museums Still Need Objects?

    by Steven Conn ...
    Series series The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
    "We live in a museum age," writes Steven Conn in Do Museums Still Need Objects? And indeed, at the turn of the twenty-first century, more people are visiting museums than ever before. There are now over 17,500 accredited museums in the United States, averaging approximately 865 million visits a year, more than two million visits a day. New museums have proliferated across the cultural landscape ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • American Cultural History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Eric Avila ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: these are the words, images, and sounds that populate American cultural history. From the Boston Tea Party to the Dodgers, from the blues to Andy Warhol, dime novels to Disneyland, the history of American culture tells us how previous generations of ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • History as Art, Art as History

    Contemporary Art and Social Studies Education

    by Dipti Desai, Jessica Hamlin, Rachel Mattson ...
    Series series Teaching/Learning Social Justice
    History as Art, Art as History pioneers methods for using contemporary works of art in the social studies and art classroom to enhance an understanding of visual culture and history. The fully-illustrated interdisciplinary teaching toolkit provides an invaluable pedagogical resource—complete with theoretical background and practical suggestions for teaching U.S. history topics through close ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • 1620

    A Critical Response to the 1619 Project

    by Peter W. Wood ...
    When and where was America founded? Was it in Virginia in 1619, when a pirate ship landed a group of captive Africans at Jamestown? So asserted the New York Times in August 2019 when it announced its 1619 Project. The Times set out to transform history by tracing American institutions, culture, and prosperity to that pirate ship and the exploitation of African Americans that followed. A ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • The Past and Future City

    How Historic Preservation is Reviving America's Communities

    by Stephanie Meeks, Kevin C. Murphy ...
    At its most basic, historic preservation is about keeping old places alive, in active use, and relevant to the needs of communities today. As cities across America experience a remarkable renaissance, and more and more young, diverse families choose to live, work, and play in historic neighborhoods, the promise and potential of using our older and historic buildings to revitalize our cities is ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Fair America

    World's Fairs in the United States

    by Robert W. Rydell, John E. Findling, Kimberly Pelle ...
    Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of civilization,” the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Introduction to Public History

    Interpreting the Past, Engaging Audiences

    by Cherstin M. Lyon, Elizabeth M. Nix, Rebecca K. Shrum ...
    Series series American Association for State and Local History
    Introduction to Public History: Interpreting the Past, Engaging Audiences is a brief foundational textbook for public history. It is organized around the questions and ethical dilemmas that drive public history in a variety of settings, from local community-based projects to international case studies. This book is designed for use in undergraduate and graduate classrooms with future public ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Smashing Statues

    The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments

    by Erin L. Thompson ...
    A leading expert on the past, present, and future of public monuments in America.An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them. Why do we care so much about statues? Which ones should stay up and which should come down? Who should make these ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD