Who Owns America's Past?: The Smithsonian and the Problem of History /]crobert C. Post

by Robert C. Post

Book Overview

When preserving our history, what do we choose to value, why, and who decides?

Honorable Mention for the National Council on Public History Book Award of the National Council on Public History

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421411008
• ISBN13: 9781421411002
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher