Artifacts And The American Past

Introduction: History Outside The History Classroom Part I. Graphics As Artifacts - 1 Mirrors Of The Past: Historical Photography And American History - 2 Mail-Order Catalogs As Resources In Material Culture Studies - 3 Past Cityscapes: Uses Of Cartography In Urban History Part II. Historic Sites As Artifacts - 4 Historic House Museums: Seven Teaching Strategies - 5 The Historic Museum Village As A Cross-Disciplinary Learning Laboratory - 6 The 1876 Centennial: A Model For Comparative American Studies Part III. Landscaping As Artifacts - 7 Vegetation As Historical Data: A Historian's Use Of Plants And Natural Material Culture Evidence - 8 Regional Studies In America: The Chicago Model - 9 Above-Ground Archaeology: Discovering A Community's History Through Local Artifacts Part IV. Coda - 10 Collecting Ideas And Artifacts: Common Problems Of History Museums And History Texts Appendix 1 Chronology To The History Of Photographic Processes Appendix 2 An Exercise In Urban Map Analysis: Metropolitan Chicago Appendix 3 American Material Culture Technique: Historical Museum Exhibit Review Notes Index