Artifacts and the American Past Book

chapter 1 Introduction: History outside the History Classroom chapter 2 Part I. Graphics as Artifacts chapter 3 1 Mirrors of the Past: Historical Photography and American History chapter 4 2 Mail-Order Catalogs as Resources in Material Culture Studies chapter 5 3 Past Cityscapes: Uses of Cartography in Urban History chapter 6 Part II. Historic Sites as Artifacts chapter 7 4 Historic House Museums: Seven Teaching Strategies chapter 8 5 The Historic museum as a Cross-Disciplinary Learning Laboratory chapter 9 6 The 1876 Centennial: A Model for Comparative American Studies chapter 10 Part III. Landscapes as Artifacts chapter 11 7 Vegetation as Historical Data: A Historian's Use of Plants and Natural Material Culture Evidence chapter 12 8 Regional Studies in America: The Chicago Model chapter 13 9 Above-Ground Archaeology: Discovering a Community's History through Local Artifacts chapter 14 Part IV. Coda chapter 15 Collecting Ideas and Artifacts: Common Problems of History Museums and History Texts Appendix 1 Chronology to the History of Photographic Processes chapter 16 Appendix 2 An Exercise in Urban Map Analysis: Metropolitan Chicago chapter 17 Appendix 3 American Material Culture Technique: Historical Museum Exhibit Review chapter 18 Notes chapter 19 Index