David Glassberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 679862 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Glassberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Glassberg |
| SIGNATURE | GLASSBERG D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Shores of Bohemia: A Cape Cod Story, 1910–1960 by John Taylor Williams
Nature writer Robert Finch described Cape Cod as a “storied place,” where nature, history, and culture are inextricably intertwined. This is especially true of the Outer Cape, the large area of windswept bluffs and beaches on one side and sheltered bays on the other that stretches south from Provincetown through Truro, Wellfleet, Eastham, and Orleans to Chatham. What appears to be a timeless natural setting of ocean, sand, fields, and forest has …
Patriotism in Orange: The Memory of World War I in a Massachusetts Town
Gary Cross. Consumed Nostalgia: Memory in the Age of Fast Capitalism
Gary Cross observes that nostalgia is not what it used to be. Nearly a century ago, the founders of Colonial Williamsburg, Greenfield Village, and Old Sturbridge Village built outdoor museums that appealed to visitors’ collective memories and longings for America’s preindustrial past. Today these places are in decline, because “modern nostalgia has privileged childhood and personal memory, reducing the value of past eras and collective memory” (2…
Place, Memory, and Climate Change
Scientists warn about the difficulty of predicting ecological relationships as climate conditions for many places begin to move well outside their historical range of variability. In recent years, ecologists have identified "no-analog" communities, associations of species in the past that arose because of novel climate conditions not found at present. They have suggested that the planet is heading toward a similar period of disappearing climates …
Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials
Journal Article Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials Get access Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials. Ed. by Greg Dickinson, Carole Blair, and Brian L. Ott. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010. xii, 282 pp. Cloth, $52.00, ISBN978-0-8173-1706-5. Paper, $27.00, ISBN978-0-8173-5613-2.) David Glassberg David Glassberg University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts [email protected]…
Building on a Borrowed Past: Place and Identity in Pipestone, Minnesota
517-518
Sense of History: The Place of the past in American Life
Like the work of some other American historians, that of David Glassberg has been taken up by scholars in Australia and elsewhere, not simply for the purpose of teaching American history outside the United States but for a range of interdisciplinary courses in public history and in museum and heritage studies within an international framework. His award-winning article on memory and place published in the Public Historian in 1996, which forms the…
A Sense of History
Research Article| April 01 1997 A Sense of History David Glassberg David Glassberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1997) 19 (2): 69–72. https://doi.org/10.2307/3379146 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation David Glassberg; A Se…
Public History and the Study of Memory
7-23
The Politics of Public Memory: Tourism, History, and Ethnicity in Monterey, California
Journal Article The Politics of Public Memory: Tourism, History, and Ethnicity in Monterey, California. By Martha K. Norkunas. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. xii, 123 pp. Cloth, $39.50, ISBN 0-7914-1483-3. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-7914-1484-1.) Get access David Glassberg David Glassberg University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American …
Patriotism from the Ground Up
In 1946, Merle Curti's The Roots of American Loyalty offered a narrative history of American patriotism, tracing a pattern of emotions and ideas from the eighteenth century up to World War II (p. ix). Curti sought to promote a intelligent and understanding in contrast to the blind unthinking love of country that he saw embodied in veterans groups and hereditary societies' identification of loyalty to America with militarism, nativism, and free-ma…
American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century
American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century
American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century
Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915
Journal Article Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876–1915. By Thomas J. Schlereth. (New York: HarperCollins, 1991. xx + 363 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-06-016218-X.) Get access David Glassberg David Glassberg University of Massachusetts Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Pages 1194–1195, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080886 Publish…
Iwo Jima: Monuments, Memories, and the American Hero
Journal Article Iwo Jima: Monuments, Memories, and the American Hero. By Karal Ann Marling and John Wetcnhall. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. x + 300 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-674-46980-1.) Get access Iwo Jima: Monuments, Memories, and the American Hero. By Ann Marling and John Wetenhall Karal. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. x + 300 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-674-46980-1.) David Glassberg David Glassberg University of Massachusetts, Am…
Of Pageantry and Politics
Roundtable: "The Ideal of Objectivity" and the Profession of History
Research Article| April 01 1991 Roundtable: "The Ideal of Objectivity" and the Profession of History Otis L. Graham,, Jr., Otis L. Graham,, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Richard G. Hewlett, Richard G. Hewlett Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar David Glassberg, David Glassberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rebecca Cona…
Thick Description in the Progressive Era
American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century
Journal Article American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century. By David Glassberg. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. xxii + 381 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $14.95.) Get access David Nasaw David Nasaw College of Staten Island, City University of New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, …
Monuments and Memories
American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century
American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century
Wes Hardin; American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century, Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 22, Issue 4, 1 Novemb
The Making of Neocolonial America
History and the Public: Legacies of the Progressive Era
957-980
Public History and the Study of Memory
7-23
Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915
Journal Article Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876–1915. By Thomas J. Schlereth. (New York: HarperCollins, 1991. xx + 363 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-06-016218-X.) Get access David Glassberg David Glassberg University of Massachusetts Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Pages 1194–1195, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080886 Publish…
A Sense of History
Research Article| April 01 1997 A Sense of History David Glassberg David Glassberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1997) 19 (2): 69–72. https://doi.org/10.2307/3379146 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation David Glassberg; A Se…
Sense of History: The Place of the past in American Life
Like the work of some other American historians, that of David Glassberg has been taken up by scholars in Australia and elsewhere, not simply for the purpose of teaching American history outside the United States but for a range of interdisciplinary courses in public history and in museum and heritage studies within an international framework. His award-winning article on memory and place published in the Public Historian in 1996, which forms the…
Roundtable: "The Ideal of Objectivity" and the Profession of History
Research Article| April 01 1991 Roundtable: "The Ideal of Objectivity" and the Profession of History Otis L. Graham,, Jr., Otis L. Graham,, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Richard G. Hewlett, Richard G. Hewlett Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar David Glassberg, David Glassberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rebecca Cona…
History and the Public: Legacies of the Progressive Era
957-980
Place, Memory, and Climate Change
Scientists warn about the difficulty of predicting ecological relationships as climate conditions for many places begin to move well outside their historical range of variability. In recent years, ecologists have identified "no-analog" communities, associations of species in the past that arose because of novel climate conditions not found at present. They have suggested that the planet is heading toward a similar period of disappearing climates …
Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials
Journal Article Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials Get access Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials. Ed. by Greg Dickinson, Carole Blair, and Brian L. Ott. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010. xii, 282 pp. Cloth, $52.00, ISBN978-0-8173-1706-5. Paper, $27.00, ISBN978-0-8173-5613-2.) David Glassberg David Glassberg University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts [email protected]…
Patriotism from the Ground Up
In 1946, Merle Curti's The Roots of American Loyalty offered a narrative history of American patriotism, tracing a pattern of emotions and ideas from the eighteenth century up to World War II (p. ix). Curti sought to promote a intelligent and understanding in contrast to the blind unthinking love of country that he saw embodied in veterans groups and hereditary societies' identification of loyalty to America with militarism, nativism, and free-ma…
American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century
Journal Article American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century. By David Glassberg. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. xxii + 381 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $14.95.) Get access David Nasaw David Nasaw College of Staten Island, City University of New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, …
Monuments and Memories
American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century
Living in the Past
"Restoring a "Forgotten Childhood: American Play and the Progressive Era's Elizabethan Past
Living in the Past
History and the Public: Legacies of the Progressive Era
957-980
The Making of Neocolonial America
Roundtable: "The Ideal of Objectivity" and the Profession of History
Research Article| April 01 1991 Roundtable: "The Ideal of Objectivity" and the Profession of History Otis L. Graham,, Jr., Otis L. Graham,, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Richard G. Hewlett, Richard G. Hewlett Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar David Glassberg, David Glassberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rebecca Cona…
Thick Description in the Progressive Era
American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century
Journal Article American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century. By David Glassberg. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. xxii + 381 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $14.95.) Get access David Nasaw David Nasaw College of Staten Island, City University of New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, …
Monuments and Memories
American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century
American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century
Wes Hardin; American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century, Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 22, Issue 4, 1 Novemb
American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century
Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915
Journal Article Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876–1915. By Thomas J. Schlereth. (New York: HarperCollins, 1991. xx + 363 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-06-016218-X.) Get access David Glassberg David Glassberg University of Massachusetts Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Pages 1194–1195, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080886 Publish…
Iwo Jima: Monuments, Memories, and the American Hero
Journal Article Iwo Jima: Monuments, Memories, and the American Hero. By Karal Ann Marling and John Wetcnhall. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. x + 300 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-674-46980-1.) Get access Iwo Jima: Monuments, Memories, and the American Hero. By Ann Marling and John Wetenhall Karal. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. x + 300 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-674-46980-1.) David Glassberg David Glassberg University of Massachusetts, Am…
Of Pageantry and Politics
Patriotism from the Ground Up
In 1946, Merle Curti's The Roots of American Loyalty offered a narrative history of American patriotism, tracing a pattern of emotions and ideas from the eighteenth century up to World War II (p. ix). Curti sought to promote a intelligent and understanding in contrast to the blind unthinking love of country that he saw embodied in veterans groups and hereditary societies' identification of loyalty to America with militarism, nativism, and free-ma…
American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century
American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century
The Politics of Public Memory: Tourism, History, and Ethnicity in Monterey, California
Journal Article The Politics of Public Memory: Tourism, History, and Ethnicity in Monterey, California. By Martha K. Norkunas. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. xii, 123 pp. Cloth, $39.50, ISBN 0-7914-1483-3. Paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-7914-1484-1.) Get access David Glassberg David Glassberg University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American …
Public History and the Study of Memory
7-23
A Sense of History
Research Article| April 01 1997 A Sense of History David Glassberg David Glassberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1997) 19 (2): 69–72. https://doi.org/10.2307/3379146 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation David Glassberg; A Se…
Sense of History: The Place of the past in American Life
Like the work of some other American historians, that of David Glassberg has been taken up by scholars in Australia and elsewhere, not simply for the purpose of teaching American history outside the United States but for a range of interdisciplinary courses in public history and in museum and heritage studies within an international framework. His award-winning article on memory and place published in the Public Historian in 1996, which forms the…
Building on a Borrowed Past: Place and Identity in Pipestone, Minnesota
517-518
Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials
Journal Article Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials Get access Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials. Ed. by Greg Dickinson, Carole Blair, and Brian L. Ott. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010. xii, 282 pp. Cloth, $52.00, ISBN978-0-8173-1706-5. Paper, $27.00, ISBN978-0-8173-5613-2.) David Glassberg David Glassberg University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts [email protected]…
Place, Memory, and Climate Change
Scientists warn about the difficulty of predicting ecological relationships as climate conditions for many places begin to move well outside their historical range of variability. In recent years, ecologists have identified "no-analog" communities, associations of species in the past that arose because of novel climate conditions not found at present. They have suggested that the planet is heading toward a similar period of disappearing climates …
Gary Cross. Consumed Nostalgia: Memory in the Age of Fast Capitalism
Gary Cross observes that nostalgia is not what it used to be. Nearly a century ago, the founders of Colonial Williamsburg, Greenfield Village, and Old Sturbridge Village built outdoor museums that appealed to visitors’ collective memories and longings for America’s preindustrial past. Today these places are in decline, because “modern nostalgia has privileged childhood and personal memory, reducing the value of past eras and collective memory” (2…
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