Recent Anthologies - Tables of Contents
Material Culture
Jules David Prown and Kenneth Haltman, eds., American Artifacts: Essays in
Material Culture (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2000). Essays by
students of Jules David Prown of Yale University, applying his methods of artifact
analysis.
1. Jules David Prown, "The Truth of Material Culture: History or Fiction?"
2. Robyn Asleson, "Seduced by an Old Flame: Paradox and Illusion in a Late-Twentieth-Century Lucite Lighter"
3. Jeffrey Collins, "In Vino Vnitas? Death and the Cellarette in Empire New York"
4. Kenneth Haltman, "Reaching Out to Touch Someone? Reflections on a 1923 Candlestick Telephone"
5. Sara Laurel Holstein, "Sewing and Sowing: Cultural Continuity in an Amish Quilt"
6. Daisann McLane, "Unwrapping the bwat sekre: The Secrets of a Haitian Money Box"
7. Leslie Shannon Miller, "The Many Figures of Eve: Styles of Womanhood Embodied in a Late-Nineteenth-Century Corset"
8. Joel Pfister, "A Garden in the Machine: Reading a Mid-Nineteenth-Century, Two-Cylinder Parlor Stove as Cultural Text"
9. Jennifer L. Roberts, "Lucabrations on a Lava Lamp: Technocracy, Counterculture, and Containment in the American Sixties"
10. Carlo Rotella, "Industry, Nature, and Identity in an Iron Footbridge"
11. Lucy Soutter, "An Heirloom: Interpreting a Gilded Age Tortoiseshell Locket"
12. Amy B. Werbel, "The Foley Food Mill"
13. Weili Ye, "The Light of the Home: Dialectics of Gender in an Argand Lamp"
Ann Smart Martin and J. Ritchie Garrison, American Material Culture: The Shape
of the Field (Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1997). Papers from a
conference at the Winterthur Museum, October 1993.
1. Ann Smart Martin and J. Ritchie Garrison, "Shaping the Field: The Multidisciplinary Perspectives of material Culture"
2. Gary Kulik, "American Difference Revisited: The Case of the American Axe"
3. Bernard L. Herman, "The Bricoleur Revisited"
4. Katherine C. Grier, "Material Culture as Rhetoric: 'Animal Artifacts' as a Case Study"
5. Dorothy K. Washburn, "Getting Ready: Doll Play and Real Life in American Culture, 1900-1980"
6. Pauline K. Eversmann et. al., "Material Culture as Text: Review and Reform of the Literacy Model for Interpretation"
7. Joseph J. Corn, "Textualizing Technics: Owner's Manuals and the Reading of Objects"
8. Anne Verplanck, "The Social Meanings of Portrait Miniatures in Philadelphia, 1760-1820"
9. Alison J. Clarke, "Tupperware: Product as Social Relation"
10. Linda R. Baumgarten, "Leather Stockings and Hunting Shirts"
11. John E. Crowley, "Inventing Comfort: The Piazza"
12. James Gregory Cusick, "Archaeological Perspectives on Material Culture and Ethnicity"
13. John P. McCarthy, "Material Culture and the Performance of Sociocultural Identity: Community, Ethnicity, and Agency in the Burial Practices at the First African Baptist Church Cemeteries, Philadelphia, 1810-1841"
14. Ellen Paul Denker, "Evaluating Exhibitions: History Museums and Material Culture"
15. Cary Carson, "Material Culture History: The Scholarship Nobody Knows"
Katharine Martinez and Kenneth L. Ames, eds., The Material Culture of Gender,
the Gender of Material Culture (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1997).
Papers from a conference at the Winterthur Museum.
1. Michael Kimmel, "Introduction: The Power of Gender and the Gender of Power"
2. Russell W. Belk, "Of Mice and Men: Gender Identity and Collecting"
3. Jo B. Paoletti, "The Gendering of Infants' and Toddlers' Clothing in America"
4. John Stimson and Ardyth Stimson, "Time, Technophobia, and the Transition of Gender Definitions"
5. Gayle R. Davis, "Gender and Creative Production: A Social History Lesson in Art Evalution"
6. Cheryl Robertson, "From Cult to Profession: Domestic Women in Search of Equality"
7. Miriam Formanek-Brunell, "Fatherland: Masculinity, Technology, and the Doll Economy, 1860-1908"
8. Virginia Scharff, "Gender and Genius: The Auto Industry and Femininity"
9. Angel Kwolek-Folland, "The Gendered Environment of the Corporate Workplace, 1880-1930"
10. Ann Romines, "Putting Things in Order: The Domestic Aesthetic of Wilder's Little House Books"
11. Elaine J. Lawless, "Women Folk and Popular Arts: The Need for a Grounded Theory"
12. Joyce Ice, "Feminist Readings of Folk Material Culture Studies"
13. Beverly Gordon, "Intimacy and Objects: A Proxemic Analysis of Gender-Based Response to the Material World"
14. Barbara A. Babcock, "Mudwomen and Whitemen: A Meditation on Pueblo Potteries and the Politics of Representation"
15. Barbara Franco, "The Ritualization of Male Friendship and Virtue in Nineteenth-Century Fraternal Organizations"
16. Michael Aaron Rockland, "The Masculine Bias of the Vernacular"
17. Angela L. Miller, "Space, Cultural Authority, and the Imagery of Feminine Influence"
18. Ruth Irwin Weidner, "Gifts of Wild Game: Masculine and Feminine in Nineteenth-Century Hunting Imagery"
19. David M. Lubino, "A Manly Art: American Trompe L'Oeil Painting and the Manufacture of Masculinity"
20. Vera Norwood, "Shells and Women: The Philadelphia Conchological Illustrators"
21. Jane Przbysz, "Quilts and the Colonialization/Colonization of the American 'Woman'"
22. Grant McCracken, "The Voice of Gender in the World of Goods: Beau Brummell and the Cunning of Present Gender Symbolism"
Memory
Susannah Radstone, ed., Memory and Methodology (Oxford: Berg, 2000).
1. Susanna Radstone, "Working with Memory: An Introduction"
2. Chris Locke, "Digital Memory and the Problem of Forgetting"
3. Peter Carrier, "Places, Politics and the Archiving of Contemporary Memory"
4. Stephan Feuchtwang, "Reinscriptions: Commemoration, Restoration, and the Interpersonal Transmission of Histories and Memories under Modern States in Asia and Europe"
5. Susanna Radstone, "Screening Trauma: Forrest Gump, Film, and Memory"
6. Gillian Swanson, "Memory, Subjectivity, and Intimacy: the Historical Formation of the Modern Self and the Writing of Female Autobiography"
7. Amal Treacher, "Children: Memories, Fantasies and Narratives: From Dilemma to Complexity"
8. Frigga Haug, "Memory Work: the Key to Women's Anxiety"
9. Annette Kuhn, "A Journey Through Memory"
10. Mariette Clare and Richard Johnson, "Method in our Madness: Identity and Power in a Memory Work Method"
W. Fitzhugh Brundage, ed., Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory, and
Southern Identity (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press)
1. W. Fitzhugh Brundage, "Introduction: No Deed But Memory"
2. Michele Gillespie, "Memory and the Making of a Southern Citizenry"
3. Gergg D. Kimball, "African, American, and Virginian: The Shaping of Black Memory in Antebellum Virginia, 1790-1860"
4. Anne Sarah Rubin, "Seventy-six and Sixty-one: Confederates Remember the American Revolution"
5. Kathleen Clark, "Celebrating Freedom: Emancipation Day Celebrations and African American Memory in the Early Reconstruction South"
6. Catherine W. Bishir, "Landmarks of Power: Building a Southern Past in Raleigh and Wilmington, North Carolina, 1885-1915"
7. Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, "Redeeming Southern Memory: The Negro Race History, 1874-1915"
8. John Howard, "The Talk of the County: Revisiting Accusation, Murder, and Mississippi, 1895"
9. Stephanie E. Yuhl, "Rich and Tender Remembering: Elite White Women and an Aesthetic Sense of Place in Charleston, 1920s-1930s"
10. C. Brendan Martin, "To Keep the Spirit of Mountain Culture Alive: Tourism and Historical Memory in the Southern Highlands"
11. W. Fitzhugh Brundage, "Le Reveil de la Louisiane: Memory and Acadian Identity, 1920-1960"
12. Holly Beachley Brear, "We Run the Alamo, and You Don't: Alamo Battles of Ethnicity and Gender"
13. Bruce E. Baker: Under the Rope: Lynching and Memory in Laurens County, South Carolina"
14. David W. Blight, "Epilogue: Southerners Don't Lie; They Just Remember Big"
Adrian Forty and Susanne Kuchler, eds., The Art of Forgetting (Oxford:
Berg, 1999)
1. Nicolas Argenti, "Ephemeral Monuments, Memory and Royal Sempiternity in a Grassfields Kingdom"
2. Susanne Kuchler, "The Place of Memory"
3. Helen Weston, "Girodet's Portrait of Citizen Belley, Ex-Representative of the Colonies: In Remembrance of 'Things Sublime'
4. David Bindman, "Bribing the Vote of Fame: Eighteenth Century Monuments and the Futility of Commemoration"
5. Tarnya Cooper, "Forgetting Rome and the Voice of Piranesi's 'Speaking Ruins'"
6. Michael Rowlands, "Remembering to Forget: Sublimation as Sacrifice in War Memorials"
7. Alex King, "Remembering and Forgetting in the Public Memorials of the Great War"
8. Neil Jarman, "Commemorating 1916, Celebrating Difference: Parading and Painting in Belfast"
Genevieve Fabre & Robert O'Meally, eds., History & Memory in
African-American Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994)
1. Melvin Dixon, "The Black Writer's use of Memory"
2. Hazel Carby, "The Politics of Fiction, Anthropology, and the Folk: Zora Neale Hurston"
3. David W. Blight, "W.E.B. Du Bois and the Struggle for American Historical Memory"
4. Genevieve Fabre, "African-American Commemorative Celebrations in the Nineteenth Century"
5. Werner Sollors, "National Identity and Ethnic Diversity: 'Of Plymouth Rock and Jamestown and Ellis Island'; or, Ethnic Literature and Some Redefinitions of America"
6. Michel Fabre, "International Beacons of African-American Memory: Alexandre Dumas pere, Henry O. Tanner, and Josephine Baker as Examples of Recognition"
7. Angelika Kurger-Kahloula, "On the Wrong Side of the Fence: Facial Segregation in American Cemeteries"
8. Karen Fields, "What One Cannot Remember Mistakenly"
9. Alessandro Portelli, "History-Telling and Time: An Example from Kentucky"
10. Susan Willis, "Memory and Mass Culture"
11. VeVe Clark, "Performing the Memory of Difference in Afro-Caribbean Dance: Katherine Dunham's Choreography, 1938-87"
12. Catherine Clinton, "'With a Whip in His Hand'" Rape, Memory, and African-American Women"
13. Andre-Anne Kekeh, "Shirley Anne Williams' Dessa Rose: History and the Disruptive Power of Memory"
14. Richard J. Powell, "Art History and Black Memory: Toward a 'Blues Aesthetic'"
15. Robert G. O'Meally, "On Burke and the Vernacular: Ralph Ellison's Boomerang of History"
16. Nellie Y. McKay, "The Journals of Charlotte L. Forten Grimke: Les Lieux de Memoire in African-American Women's Autobiography"
17. Robert Stepto, "Washington Park"
18. Pierre Nora, "Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Memoire"
David Middleton and Derek Edwards, eds., Collective Remembering (London: Sage Publications, 1990)
1. David Middleton and Derek Edwards, "Conversational Remembering: a Social Psychological Approach"
2. Alan Radley, "Artefacts, memory and a Sense of the Past"
3. Michael Billig, "Collective Memory, Ideology and the British Royal Family"
4. Barry Scwartz, "The Reconstruction of Abraham Lincoln"
5. Michael Schudson, Ronald Reagan Misremembered"
6. John Shotter, "The Social Construction of Remembering and Forgetting"
7. Ryjo Engestrom et. al., "Organizational Forgetting: an Activity-Theoretical Perspective"
8. Julian E. Orr, "Sharing Knowledge, Celebrating Identitty: Community Memory in a Service Culture"
9. Carol A. Padden, "Folk Explanation in Language Survival"
10. David Bakhurst, "Social Memory in Soviet Thought"
David Thelen, ed., Memory and American History (Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1989). Reprinted from the March 1989 issue of the Journal of
American History.
1. David Thelen, "Introduction: Memory and American History"
2. Michael Frisch, "American History and the Structures of Collective Memory: A Modest Exercise in Empirical Iconography"
3. David W. Blight, "'For Something Beyond the Battlefield': Frederick Douglass and the Struggle for the Memory of the Civil War"
4. Robert E. McGlone, "Rescripting a Troubled Past: John Brown's Family and the Harpers Ferry Conspiracy"
5. John Bodnar, "Power and Memory in Oral History: Workers and Managers at Studebaker"
6. "Remembering the Discover of the Watergate Tapes"
7. David Lowenthal, "The Timeless Past: Some Anglo-American Historical Preconceptions"