M J Rymsza-Pawlowska
Biographic Data
| ID | 3978278 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M J Rymsza-Pawlowska |
| GIVEN NAMES | M J |
| FAMILY NAME | Rymsza-Pawlowska |
| SIGNATURE | RYMSZA-PAWLOWSKA M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1407-8290 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Commemoration in Washington or a Commemoration for Washington? The Federal Government and the DC Bicentennial Assembly
This article examines planning for the United States Bicentennial in Washington, DC, focusing on the work of the DC Bicentennial Assembly in the early 1970s, as well as the Nixon administration’s response. While the national bicentennial is often remembered through large federal celebrations on the National Mall, planning in the capital became a venue for local political engagement and advocacy. I show how Washington residents used bicentennial p…
Play the Long Game”
For the last five years, I have had the honor of serving as series editor for “Considering the Revolution,” a collaborative project between the National Park Service (NPS) and the National Council on Public History (NCPH). Each year, a convenor has brought together a panel of scholars and practitioners to discuss themes related to the American Revolution for the purpose of helping NPS interpreters and other practitioners prepare for the upcoming …
Nick Witham. Popularizing the Past
After Aquarius Dawned
Almost since the 1960s, participants, commentators, and historians (and those who are all three) have been revisiting the legacies of the 1960s. Part of this revisionism has been a timely surge in scholarship of the 1970s. Bruce J. Schulman, Robert Self, and Jefferson Cowie, among others, have ably demonstrated that the 1970s are worthy of consideration—that many of the developments we attribute to the 1960s (social movements) or that we experien…
Lara Leigh Kelland. Clio’s Foot Soldiers
Lara Leigh Kelland begins Clio’s Foot Soldiers: Twentieth-Century U.S. Social Movements and Collective Memory by describing the project’s genesis with a desire to counter the oft-repeated origin story of the field of public history. In the 1970s, inspired by new social history and faced with decreasing job openings, a coterie of newly minted academics had turned their attention outward, finding employment in various history institutions and in th…
Hippies Living History
In the late 1960s and 1970s, living history flowered, with new developments in research and interpretation at sites like Plimoth Plantation and Old Sturbridge Village, and the establishment of many new living history farms and museums, alongside a new professional organization: the Association for Living History Farms and Museums. This article examines this shift and puts it into conversation with the concurrent countercultural and commune moveme…
Broadcasting the Past
New forms of history television in the 1970s responded to and helped articulate a larger “nostalgia culture.” But this culture was not about escapism or a longing for a lost and irretrievable past, instead evidencing a new form of historical consciousness that allowed for closer identification and for a reevaluation of the past and the present. Television, because of its generic qualities of live delivery, immediacy, and intimacy, was particularl…
Shivers Down Your Spine
Reviewed by: Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View Malgorzata Rymsza-Pawlowska (bio) Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View. By Alison Griffiths. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. Pp. xv+372. $45. IMAX, touch-screen computers, audio tours, and other interactive media are standard fare in most museums, so much so that their presence gets folded into larger interpretations and is underth…
Broadcasting the Past
New forms of history television in the 1970s responded to and helped articulate a larger “nostalgia culture.” But this culture was not about escapism or a longing for a lost and irretrievable past, instead evidencing a new form of historical consciousness that allowed for closer identification and for a reevaluation of the past and the present. Television, because of its generic qualities of live delivery, immediacy, and intimacy, was particularl…
Shivers Down Your Spine
Reviewed by: Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View Malgorzata Rymsza-Pawlowska (bio) Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View. By Alison Griffiths. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. Pp. xv+372. $45. IMAX, touch-screen computers, audio tours, and other interactive media are standard fare in most museums, so much so that their presence gets folded into larger interpretations and is underth…
Broadcasting the Past
New forms of history television in the 1970s responded to and helped articulate a larger “nostalgia culture.” But this culture was not about escapism or a longing for a lost and irretrievable past, instead evidencing a new form of historical consciousness that allowed for closer identification and for a reevaluation of the past and the present. Television, because of its generic qualities of live delivery, immediacy, and intimacy, was particularl…
Hippies Living History
In the late 1960s and 1970s, living history flowered, with new developments in research and interpretation at sites like Plimoth Plantation and Old Sturbridge Village, and the establishment of many new living history farms and museums, alongside a new professional organization: the Association for Living History Farms and Museums. This article examines this shift and puts it into conversation with the concurrent countercultural and commune moveme…
Lara Leigh Kelland. Clio’s Foot Soldiers
Lara Leigh Kelland begins Clio’s Foot Soldiers: Twentieth-Century U.S. Social Movements and Collective Memory by describing the project’s genesis with a desire to counter the oft-repeated origin story of the field of public history. In the 1970s, inspired by new social history and faced with decreasing job openings, a coterie of newly minted academics had turned their attention outward, finding employment in various history institutions and in th…
After Aquarius Dawned
Almost since the 1960s, participants, commentators, and historians (and those who are all three) have been revisiting the legacies of the 1960s. Part of this revisionism has been a timely surge in scholarship of the 1970s. Bruce J. Schulman, Robert Self, and Jefferson Cowie, among others, have ably demonstrated that the 1970s are worthy of consideration—that many of the developments we attribute to the 1960s (social movements) or that we experien…
Nick Witham. Popularizing the Past
A Commemoration in Washington or a Commemoration for Washington? The Federal Government and the DC Bicentennial Assembly
This article examines planning for the United States Bicentennial in Washington, DC, focusing on the work of the DC Bicentennial Assembly in the early 1970s, as well as the Nixon administration’s response. While the national bicentennial is often remembered through large federal celebrations on the National Mall, planning in the capital became a venue for local political engagement and advocacy. I show how Washington residents used bicentennial p…
Play the Long Game”
For the last five years, I have had the honor of serving as series editor for “Considering the Revolution,” a collaborative project between the National Park Service (NPS) and the National Council on Public History (NCPH). Each year, a convenor has brought together a panel of scholars and practitioners to discuss themes related to the American Revolution for the purpose of helping NPS interpreters and other practitioners prepare for the upcoming …
History (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Public history (3 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (3 works)