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What Historians Don't Talk About

Anacostia Community Museum

Object Details

Creator

Anacostia Neighborhood Museum

Names

Anacostia Community Museum
Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
Boorstin, Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph), 1914-2004

Collection Creator

Anacostia Community Museum

Collection Citation

Anacostia Community Museum Programs and Projects, 1967-1989, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Scope and Contents

At a board banquet, Dr. Boorstin, Director of National Museum of History and Technology, speaks of the problems of the historian and the museum director. Specifically, he talks about the challenges of research, interpreting objects, materials which are surrounded by controversy, researching the ephemeral such as oral tradition, and writing about subjects which have not been well chronciled such as what people ate, the American family, and the failures which lead to a successful invention. Boorstin titled his remarks "What Historians Don't Talk About." Question and answer session follows speech.
Speech. Part of ACM Museum Events, PR, and Ceremonies Recordings.Dated 19730614.
sova.acma.09-023_ref633

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/qa7b83a5a53-f063-4af8-a672-3dc4a9dbdc75

Place

Washington (D.C.)
United States
Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)

Topic

African Americans
Museums
Museum techniques
Historians
Research
Oral history

Creator

Anacostia Neighborhood Museum

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Museum Events, Programs, and Projects, 1967-1989

Extent

1 Video recording (open reel, 1/2 inch)

Date

1973

Custodial History

Created for Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. Recorded at a board banquet at Smithsonian Commons.

Archival Repository

Anacostia Community Museum Archives

Identifier

ACMA.09-023, Item ACMA AV003473

Type

Archival materials
Video recordings
Speeches

Genre/Form

Video recordings
Speeches

Note

005410

Collection Restrictions

Use of the materials requires an appointment. Some items are not accessible due to obsolete format and playback machinery restrictions. Please contact the archivist at acmarchives@si.edu.
ACMA.09-023_ref633
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/qa7b83a5a53-f063-4af8-a672-3dc4a9dbdc75
ACMA.09-023
ACMA

Record ID

ebl-1568815250523-1568815250704-0

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