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100 1 $aWest, Patricia,$d1958-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98106098
245 10 $aDomesticating history :$bthe political origins of America's house museums /$cPatricia West.
260 $aWashington [D.C.] :$bSmithsonian Institution Press,$c[1999], ©1999.
300 $axiii, 241 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 163-231) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tInventing a House Undivided: Antebellum Cultural Politics and the Enshrinement of Mount Vernon --$g2.$tGender Politics and the Orchard House Museum --$g3.$tCampaigning for Monticello --$g4.$t"The Bricks of Compromise Settle into Place": Booker T. Washington's Birthplace and the Civil Rights Movement.
520 1 $a"Focusing on George Washington's Mount Vernon, Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, and the Booker T. Washington National Monument, Patricia West shows how historic houses reflect less the lives and times of their famous inhabitants than the political pressures of the eras during which they were transformed into museums.
520 8 $aIn the late 1850s, the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association evoked a mythologized George Washington to campaign for the "rescue" of his home, glossing over his role as a slaveholder to appeal to patrons on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. In 1912, the establishment of Orchard House as a museum paid homage to Alcott's novel Little Women and unified the Woman's Club of Concord, Massachusetts, which was bitterly divided over women's suffrage. In the 1920s and 1930s, Monticello became a touchstone for professional house restoration and an idealized Thomas Jefferson a focal point for a rift-weary Democratic Party. During the 1950s, the birthplace of Booker T.
520 8 $aWashington became a monument created largely by politicians besieged by conflicts over civil rights." "In Domesticating History, West contends that house museum founders, while claiming to create sites strictly devoted to individual lives, were in fact establishing monuments steeped in the issues of their times."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aHistorical museums$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aDwellings$xConservation and restoration$zUnited States$xHistory.
651 0 $aMount Vernon (Va. : Estate)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087766
610 20 $aOrchard House Museum (Concord, Mass.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97060183
651 0 $aMonticello (Va.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087069
651 0 $aBooker T. Washington National Monument (Va.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98007775
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852 00 $bmil$hE159$i.W445 1999
852 00 $bmil$hE159$i.W445 1999