In small community museums, truck stops, restaurants, bars, barbershops, schools, and churches, people create displays to tell the histories that matter to them

Americans choose from a dizzying array of schools, loosely categorized as "public" and "private." How did these distinctions emerge, and what do they tell us ab

Private History in Public examines history exhibits in small community museums and non-museum settings like bars, churches, and barbershops and argues that thes

A secondary source reader that is a great complement to any survey text. A collection of secondary sources that examine the history of the United States by conn

Private Lives, Public Histories brings together diverse methods from archaeology and cultural anthropology, enabling us to glean rare information on private liv