Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC (usa)
Publication country
United States
Abstract
(en)
Focusing on George Washington's Mount Vernon, Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House (Concord, MA), Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, and the Booker T. Washington National Monument (Hardy, VA), the author shows how historic houses reflect less the lives and times of their famous inhabitants than the political pressures - abolition, women's suffrage, civil rights - of the eras during which they were transformed into museums, 1850s-1950s. Historic house museums during the 19th c. embodied the faith of white middle-class and elite women in the power of a common yet often sanitized vision of history. During the early 20th c., historic house-making increasingly reflected the interests of male politicians, corporations and museum professionals.
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