A Cultural Arsenal for Democracy: The World War II Work of US Museums PDF
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A C U L T U R A L A R S E N A L F O R D E M O C R A C Y The World War II Work of US Museums C L A R I S S A J . C E G L I O This page intentionally left blank A CULTURAL ARSENAL FOR DEMOCRACY a volume in the series Public History in Historical Perspective edited by Marla R. Miller A C U L T U R A L A R S E N A L F O R D E M O C R A C Y The World War II Work of US Museums CLARISSA J. CEGLIO University of Massachusetts Press amherst and boston Copyright © 2022 by University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America ISBN 978- 1- 62534- 625- 4 (paper); 624- 7 (hardcover) Designed by Sally Nichols Set in Filosofia Printed and bound by Books International, Inc Cover design by Frank Gutbrod Cover art: Know Your United Nations at the Brooklyn Museum (September 16, 1947– November 23, 1947), UN Photo/Kari Berggrav. Courtesy of the United Nations Photo Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-i n- Publication Data Names: Ceglio, Clarissa J., 1962–a uthor. Title: A cultural arsenal for democracy : the World War II work of U.S. museums / Clarissa J. Ceglio. Description: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2022] | Series: Public history in historical perspective | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021017193 (print) | LCCN 2021017194 (ebook) | ISBN 9781625346247 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781625346254 (paperback) | ISBN 9781613769003 (ebook) | ISBN 9781613769010 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: World War, 1939–1 945— Museums—U nited States. | Museums— Social aspects— United States— History— 20th century. | Museums— Educational aspects— United States— History— 20th century. | Public history— United States— History— 20th century. | World War, 1939– 1945— Propaganda. | Propaganda, American—H istory— 20th century. | World War, 1939–1 945— Social aspects— United States. Classification: LCC D733.U6 C45 2022 (print) | LCC D733.U6 (ebook) | DDC 940.53/73— dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021017193 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021017194 British Library Cataloguing-i n- Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Portions of chapter 1 were previously published as “Imperfectly Progressive: The Social Mission of U.S. Museums in the 1930s,” in Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism, edited by Denise Meringolo (Amherst: Amherst College Press, 2021), 363–9 3. To John Cosimo, my truly one and only AMDG This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Preface ix introduction The American Museum as Social Instrument 1 chapter one Toward a Material Rhetoric of Social Instrumentality 16 chapter two Materializing the Good Neighborhood The Exhibitionary Network and Hemispheric Citizenship 40 chapter three War Comes to the Museum 70 chapter four Witnessing War Fare The Construction of Home- Front Citizenship 93 chapter five Gateways to Global Citizenship in a Postwar World 129 conclusion Museum Stories, Old and New 159 Notes 173 Index 211 vii This page intentionally left blank
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