{"product_id":"9780759119345","title":"Private History in Public: Exhibition and the Settings of Everyday Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn small community museums, truck stops, restaurants, bars, barbershops, schools, and churches, people create displays to tell the histories that matter to them. Much of this history is personal: family history, community history, history of a trade, or the history of something considered less than genteel. It is often history based on the historical record, but also based on feelings, beliefs, and memory. It is neglected history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrivate History in Public is about the history exhibits that complicate the public\/private dichotomy, exhibits that serve to explain communities, families, and individuals to outsiders and the insiders together through a shared narrative of historical experience. Tammy S. Gordon looks beyond the large professionalized museum exhibits that have dominated scholarship in museum studies and public history and offers a new way of understanding the broad spectrum of exhibition types in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AltaMira Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47010599731440,"sku":"9780759119345","price":97.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780759119345_p0.jpg?v=1769903892","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780759119345","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}