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This book is a complete guide to interpreting women's history. It connects scholarship with the tangible resources and the sensuality that form museums and historic sites-- the objects, architecture and landscapes-- in ways that encourage visitor fascination and understanding and center interpretation on the women active in them
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Significance
Chapter 1: Why Women's History Matters
Knowledge Base
Chapter 2: Researching Women's History
Chapter 3: Written Sources: Read All About Her
Chapter 4: Oral Sources: Sermons & Parrots
Chapter 5: Visual Sources: Maps & Photographs
Tangible Resources
Chapter 6: Landscapes: Fields and Gardens
Chapter 7: Buildings & Structures: Cents Shops, Houses, and Canals
Chapter 8: Objects: Who Packed This Lunch Bucket?
Chapter 9: Preservation: From Great-Grandmothers to Great-Granddaughters
Interpretation
Chapter 10: Interpretation: Sharing Women's History with Visitors
Appendix: Organizations, Websites & Journals
Bibliography
About the author
Heather Huyck is a public historian long dedicated to "tell the whole story," and interpret quality women's history. An activist-scholar as well as a park ranger, manager, and organizer, she has a PhD from the University of Minnesota, worked on the foundational Women's History Sources Survey, and did professional staff work for 81 enacted laws in the US House of Representatives. She taught women's history to the National Park Service and the College of William & Mary and has made numerous presentations. A past President of the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites, she has been an OAH Distinguished Lecturer, AHA Congressional Fellow, and AHA Feis Public History Award recipient. She worked to preserve Maggie Walker documents and serves on the Mary McLeod Bethune Federal Commission. She has travelled extensively to museums in the US and Canada and to 324 national parks.
Summary
This book is a complete guide to interpreting women’s history. It connects scholarship with the tangible resources and the sensuality that form museums and historic sites-- the objects, architecture and landscapes-- in ways that encourage visitor fascination and understanding and center interpretation on the women active in them
