The Changing Face of Public History: The Chicago Historical Society and the Transformation of an American Museum by Catherine Lewis

The Changing Face of Public History: The Chicago Historical Society and the Transformation of an American Museum

Catherine Lewis

184 pages • first pub 2005 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Spurred first by the civil rights debates of the 1960s and 1970s, then by the culture wars of the following decades, the Chicago Historical Society (CHS) increasingly sought to give visitors and patrons a voice in retelling the city's history. In ...

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