Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities

This updated edition offers readers multiple lenses for viewing and discussing local institutions. New chapters are included in a section titled “Museums Moving Forward,” which analyzes the ways in which local museums have come to adopt digital technologies in selecting items for exhibitions as well as the complexities of creating institutions devoted to marginalized histories.  

You can borrow this book from the Vermont Historical Society's LLHSM Lending Library. Note that VHS currently has the second edition of this book. 

Levin, Amy K. and Joshua G. Adair, eds. Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities. Rowman and Littlefield, 2017.