"History is bunk" : assembling the past at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village / Jessie Swigger.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Public history in historical perspectivePublisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2014]Description: x, 216 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781625340771
  • 162534077X
  • 9781625340788
  • 1625340788
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
"Goodbye textbooks, hello America": the Ford years -- The Fording of American history -- A permanent pageant of America -- The public's village -- Dearborn, not Detroit: Greenfield Village after Henry Ford -- Searching for an identity -- Visitors respond -- The new history at an old village -- From history museum to history attraction.
Summary: This is the story of Henry Ford's Greenfield Village. In 1916 Henry Ford proclaimed that "history is more or less bunk"-at least its focus on politicians and military heroes was bunk. Thirteen years later, he sought to correct this error by opening the Greenfield Village museum, which celebrated the history of farmers and inventors. The village eventually included a replica of Thomas Edison's Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory, the Wright brothers' cycle shop and home from Dayton, Ohio, and Ford's own Michigan birthplace. Artisan shops, a Cotswold cottage from England, and two brick slave cabins reflected Ford's idiosyncratic worldview.
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room E161 .S95 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000039715

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Goodbye textbooks, hello America": the Ford years -- The Fording of American history -- A permanent pageant of America -- The public's village -- Dearborn, not Detroit: Greenfield Village after Henry Ford -- Searching for an identity -- Visitors respond -- The new history at an old village -- From history museum to history attraction.

This is the story of Henry Ford's Greenfield Village. In 1916 Henry Ford proclaimed that "history is more or less bunk"-at least its focus on politicians and military heroes was bunk. Thirteen years later, he sought to correct this error by opening the Greenfield Village museum, which celebrated the history of farmers and inventors. The village eventually included a replica of Thomas Edison's Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory, the Wright brothers' cycle shop and home from Dayton, Ohio, and Ford's own Michigan birthplace. Artisan shops, a Cotswold cottage from England, and two brick slave cabins reflected Ford's idiosyncratic worldview.

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