PUBLIC HISTORIANPub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.47
Athena Syriatou, Elias Stouraitis, Kyriakos Sgouropoulos
{"title":"History, Historical Culture, and 1821","authors":"Athena Syriatou, Elias Stouraitis, Kyriakos Sgouropoulos","doi":"10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.47","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the reasoning, methodology, and implementation of the 1821 Greek Revolution Observatory, an archive documenting the bicentenary of the revolution. The piece showcases the various aspects of academic and public history involved in the archive’s creation, pointing out the many ways that public history records various versions of the national self. The work also demonstrates the pioneering nature of the archive in terms of the interconnectivity of historical narratives and digital ethnography. Moreover, it displays the ways in which the archive’s digital structure will facilitate key practices and usages by historians, artists, researchers, journalists, anthropologists, and others interested in historical culture.","PeriodicalId":45070,"journal":{"name":"PUBLIC HISTORIAN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135272542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PUBLIC HISTORIANPub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.122
Brian Robertson
{"title":"<i>Vietnam</i>. Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum","authors":"Brian Robertson","doi":"10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.122","url":null,"abstract":"Review| November 01 2023 Vietnam. Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Vietnam. Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, Yorba Linda, California. National Archives and Records Administration and Nixon Foundation, Curators; Mary C. Brennan, Advisor; Lien Hang Nguyen, Advisor; David Farber, Advisor; Dean Kotlowski, Advisor; Gregory Cumming, Review Coordinator. October 14, 2016-Ongoing. https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/museum. Brian Robertson Brian Robertson Independent Scholar Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2023) 45 (4): 122–127. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.122 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Brian Robertson; Vietnam. Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. The Public Historian 1 November 2023; 45 (4): 122–127. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.122 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search Vietnam has been a sore point at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. In 2005, as the Nixon Foundation—a private organization that supports the museum and library—arranged to transfer Nixon’s presidential materials from the Washington, DC, area to Yorba Linda, California, they simultaneously cancelled a conference on the topic of the conflict in Vietnam, enraging scholars. The Nixon Foundation’s actions led to sixteen prominent Nixon scholars signing a public petition to prevent the transfer of the materials to California. Although their protests failed to prevent the transfer of materials, the outcry led to the Archivist of the United States, Allen Weinstein, appointing serious Cold War scholar Timothy Naftali as the first federal director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.1 Naftali, to great public acclaim, curated an accurate Watergate exhibit—about the scandal that brought down Nixon’s Presidency—but he was met with fierce resistance from the Nixon Foundation... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":45070,"journal":{"name":"PUBLIC HISTORIAN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135272805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PUBLIC HISTORIANPub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.111
James I. Deutsch
{"title":"<i>Seven Poor Children</i> (<i>Syv fattige børn</i>). Danish Welfare Museum (Danmarks Forsorgsmuseum)","authors":"James I. Deutsch","doi":"10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.111","url":null,"abstract":"Review| November 01 2023 Seven Poor Children (Syv fattige børn). Danish Welfare Museum (Danmarks Forsorgsmuseum) Seven Poor Children (Syv fattige børn). Danish Welfare Museum (Danmarks Forsorgsmuseum), Svendborg, Denmark. Jeppe Wichmann Rasmussen, Curator, Researcher and Project Leader; Martin Friis Hansen, Researcher; Torden & Lynild (Thunder & Lightning), exhibition designers. September 19, 2020–ongoing. https://www.svendborgmuseum.dk/udstillinger/syv-fattige-born (Danish only). James I. Deutsch James I. Deutsch Smithsonian Institution Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2023) 45 (4): 111–114. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.111 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation James I. Deutsch; Seven Poor Children (Syv fattige børn). Danish Welfare Museum (Danmarks Forsorgsmuseum). The Public Historian 1 November 2023; 45 (4): 111–114. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.111 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search The extraordinary exhibition, Seven Poor Children (or Syv fattige børn in Danish), began with one extraordinary photograph from the early 1950s. It shows Lisa, then a five-or-six-year-old girl, smiling as she tenderly holds the hand of a man in his late eighties, seated on a bench outside the workhouse (formerly known as the poorhouse) in Svendborg, Denmark. Some four years before Seven Poor Children opened, Lisa had brought this small photograph to the Danish Welfare Museum (Danmarks Forsorgsmuseum), which since 1974 has occupied the buildings of the former workhouse. Lisa explained that she was the eldest daughter of the workhouse’s warden, and that she knew only the man’s last name—which happened to be an uncommon one. Using archival registers of former workhouse inmates, researchers at the museum were able to determine that the man in the photo was named Hermann (born ca. 1864), and that since the 1890s he had... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":45070,"journal":{"name":"PUBLIC HISTORIAN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135272547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PUBLIC HISTORIANPub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.82
Trevor F. Anthony
{"title":"Busy Being Born","authors":"Trevor F. Anthony","doi":"10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.82","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.82","url":null,"abstract":"Chronicling the development of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s museal initiatives through the institution now known as the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP), this article explores the following questions: What happened when this philanthropist of great ambition and means sought to inspire others through the medium of the museum? What might the history of MoPOP tell us about contemporary issues in the museum? How does the saga of MoPOP challenge historical considerations of popular culture? I describe the kind of negotiations and challenges that faced an institution intentionally setting out to blaze new trails. The narrative shows an evolution in the values of the contemporary museum; while the lofty gestures toward a “museum of the future” or “post-museum” failed to survive, the founder’s vision of popular culture as a viable subject for the medium unequivocally triumphed. New values have now moved to the fore, including inclusivity and relevance. Moreover, the story of the museum elevates the power of the personal and the nostalgic in producing the collective phenomenon that we call history.","PeriodicalId":45070,"journal":{"name":"PUBLIC HISTORIAN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135271722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PUBLIC HISTORIANPub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.5
Sarah H. Case
{"title":"Editor’s Corner","authors":"Sarah H. Case","doi":"10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.5","url":null,"abstract":"Editorial| November 01 2023 Editor’s Corner: Digital Archives, School Names, and Visionary Founders Sarah H. Case Sarah H. Case Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2023) 45 (4): 5–6. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.5 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Sarah H. Case; Editor’s Corner: Digital Archives, School Names, and Visionary Founders. The Public Historian 1 November 2023; 45 (4): 5–6. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.5 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search This issue features five reports from the field, analyzing diverse and far-reaching projects. Reflecting current trends, three discuss digital archives and propose models to help establish best practices for the medium. The first, “Slow Disasters and Adaptive Archiving: COVID-19 and the Rolling-Response Model,” by Kathleen Kole de Peralta and Marissa Rhodes examines the creation of Journal of the Plague Year: A COVID-19 Archive (JOTPY). Originally conceived as a short-term, rapid-response archive to collect during what was assumed to be a brief period of lockdown, it evolved into an expansive, international, and ongoing project. Kole de Peralta and Rhodes coined the term “rolling-response archive” to describe the kind of collecting that the pandemic necessitated, that is, “an archive that collects stories over a long period (six months or more) and adjusts its collection and curatorial practices in response to the lived historical moment.” Characterized by “crowdsourced material, extended data... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":45070,"journal":{"name":"PUBLIC HISTORIAN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135272229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PUBLIC HISTORIANPub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.63
Jason Pierce, Michael Powers
{"title":"We and Bobby Lee","authors":"Jason Pierce, Michael Powers","doi":"10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.63","url":null,"abstract":"In 2020, a grassroots movement emerged in San Angelo, Texas, with the goal of changing the name of Robert E. Lee Middle School. This movement reflected larger national trends in removing Confederate statues and wrestling with the legacy of the Confederacy. Two professors of history at a regional university decided to participate in the renaming effort. This experience taught them the important role historians can and should play in debates over historical memory and commemoration, especially as allies to movements led by nonacademic community members. Moreover, it offers insights on a significant set of questions for US public historians: What is the role of the professional historian in local debates—contentious school board meetings in particular—that hinge on misconceptions of the American past? In particularly, how can academics use their expertise to combat the supremacy of Lost Cause narratives in the American South? Access to information, often locked behind paywalls, and professional credibility proved to be areas where historians can be of most use. In addition, the authors’ experience demonstrates the vital role local institutions play in the lives of their communities.","PeriodicalId":45070,"journal":{"name":"PUBLIC HISTORIAN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135272550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PUBLIC HISTORIANPub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.7
Kathleen Kole de Peralta, Marissa C. Rhodes
{"title":"Slow Disasters and Adaptive Archiving","authors":"Kathleen Kole de Peralta, Marissa C. Rhodes","doi":"10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.7","url":null,"abstract":"The Journal of the Plague Year: A COVID-19 Archive (JOTPY) is a digital, crowdsourced archive collecting pandemic stories from around the globe. It encourages students and the public to submit stories of personal experiences during the pandemic. The project builds on the rich work of rapid-response archives in museum studies, oral history, anthropology, and disaster studies. JOTPY reconceptualizes the COVID-19 pandemic as a “slow disaster”: not a singular crisis, but an ongoing calamity provoked by deep historical, sociopolitical, and cultural processes that COVID-19 both reflects and highlights. In order to address the challenges of documenting a slow disaster, we propose employing the rolling-response archive model. We argue that the current pandemic has changed our understanding of crises and of how to document them ethically and equitably.","PeriodicalId":45070,"journal":{"name":"PUBLIC HISTORIAN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135272074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PUBLIC HISTORIANPub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.129
Jesse Bucher
{"title":"Review: <i>Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices</i>, by Kristin Ann Hass","authors":"Jesse Bucher","doi":"10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.129","url":null,"abstract":"Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices, by Kristin Ann Hass Kristin Ann Hass, Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices. Boston: Beacon Press, 2022. Jesse Bucher Jesse Bucher Roanoke College Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2023) 45 (4): 129–131. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.129 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jesse Bucher; Review: Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices, by Kristin Ann Hass. The Public Historian 1 November 2023; 45 (4): 129–131. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.129 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search Kristin Hass’s new book, Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices, provides a timely and accessible introduction to some of the ways in which memorials, museums, and everyday patriotic practices produce and reproduce systemic racism in America. Blunt Instruments directly engages with recent national and international debates about racist cultural practices, and especially speaks to and embraces questions raised by social movements that emerged in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder in 2020. To these current debates, Hass adds what she describes as a “field guide…to help readers identify, contextualize, and name elements of our everyday landscapes and cultural practices that are designed to seem benign or natural but that, in fact, work tirelessly to tell vital stories about who we are, how we came to be, and who belongs” (3). To reach this goal, Blunt Instruments introduces and applies a repeatable critical framework... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":45070,"journal":{"name":"PUBLIC HISTORIAN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135272543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PUBLIC HISTORIANPub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.128
Jennifer W. Dickey
{"title":"Review: <i>Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum</i>, by Amy E. Potter, Stephen P. Hanna, Derek H. Alderman, Perry L. Carter, Candace Forbes Bright, and David L. Butler","authors":"Jennifer W. Dickey","doi":"10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.128","url":null,"abstract":"Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum, by Amy E. Potter, Stephen P. Hanna, Derek H. Alderman, Perry L. Carter, Candace Forbes Bright, and David L. Butler Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum by Amy E. Potter, Stephen P. Hanna, Derek H. Alderman, Perry L. Carter, Candace Forbes Bright, and David L. Butler. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2022. xii + 302 pp.; appendices, notes, bibliography, index; clothbound, $114.95; paperbound, $37.95. Jennifer W. Dickey Jennifer W. Dickey Kennesaw State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2023) 45 (4): 128–129. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.128 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jennifer W. Dickey; Review: Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum, by Amy E. Potter, Stephen P. Hanna, Derek H. Alderman, Perry L. Carter, Candace Forbes Bright, and David L. Butler. The Public Historian 1 November 2023; 45 (4): 128–129. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.128 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum offers a fascinating and detailed look at clusters of plantation museums in three geographic areas in the United States—Virginia’s James River, the greater Charleston, South Carolina, area, and Louisiana’s River Road. Coauthored by a team of five geographers and a sociologist from six higher-ed institutions, this book should find an eager audience among public history educators and professionals. Supported by a National Science Foundation grant, the authors carried out an in-depth analysis of interpretations of slavery at fifteen plantation museums over a three-year period (2014–17). Using assemblage theory, the idea that both the “human and inhuman, animate and inanimate entities” of these sites act together and are “greater than the sum of their constituent parts,” the authors dissect the various components of each museum (25). They examine “the actors, spaces, and contexts,” that compose these heritage tourism sites in an effort to “disassemble... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":45070,"journal":{"name":"PUBLIC HISTORIAN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135325481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PUBLIC HISTORIANPub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.115
Brian J Griffith
{"title":"<i>Auschwitz: Not Long Ago, Not Far Away</i>. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library","authors":"Brian J Griffith","doi":"10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.115","url":null,"abstract":"Review| November 01 2023 Auschwitz: Not Long Ago, Not Far Away. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Auschwitz: Not Long Ago, Not Far Away. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, Simi Valley, California. March 24, 2023–Ongoing. https://www.reaganfoundation.org/library-museum/special-exhibits/auschwitz-exhibition/. Brian J Griffith Brian J Griffith California State University, Fresno Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2023) 45 (4): 115–122. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.115 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Brian J Griffith; Auschwitz: Not Long Ago, Not Far Away. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. The Public Historian 1 November 2023; 45 (4): 115–122. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.4.115 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search The unspeakable horrors of German Nazism, antisemitism, and the labor and death camp system during World War II (WWII), are simultaneously “Not Long Ago” and “Not Far Away,” the bi-line of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum (RRPLM)’s ongoing Auschwitz exhibition contends. Although the proximity of WWII and the Holocaust continues to weigh heavily upon our contemporary historical consciousness, it is the latter assertion—the unprecedented crimes of the Holocaust are “Not Far Away”—which caught my eye as I repeatedly passed by the exhibition’s promotional billboards along California’s Highway 118 in Ventura County, where the RRPLM is located. Why, I wondered, did this particular institution consider the horrors of interwar European ultra-nationalism, racially motivated violence, and, worse still, organized mass murder to be possibilities on our collective horizon? And what did the RRPLM, moreover, have anything to do with the historical memory surrounding Auschwitz? These were the guiding questions which... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":45070,"journal":{"name":"PUBLIC HISTORIAN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135272684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}