Kathleen Franz
Biographic Data
| ID | 810976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen Franz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Franz |
| SIGNATURE | FRANZ K |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University , Washington, DC |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 18 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
America's Other Automakers: A History of the Foreign-Owned Automotive Sector in the United States
Timothy J. Minchin makes a compelling case for examining the history of foreign-owned auto manufacturers in the United States. America's Other Automakers explores the recent history of Japanese, German, and Korean producers and how they reshaped the industry and labor relations in the American South. He does an admirable job of documenting what the planning, economic incentives, gubernatorial leadership, and new industrial jobs meant for communit…
Girlhood (It’s complicated)
Girlhood (It’s complicated) is an exhibition at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), part of the Smithsonian Institution, which opened in October of 2020. Created with federal funding as part of the American Women’s History Initiative (AWHI), the exhibition commemorates the centennial of women’s suffrage. To put a fresh spin on this anniversary and draw attention to larger, intertwining issues of gender and politics in the United State…
Public History Reviews
Journal Article Public History Reviews Get access Journal of American History, Volume 107, Issue 1, June 2020, Pages 132–133, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaaa011 Published: 01 June 2020
Precedents to Documenting Covid-19
Reviewsconcerns.Mahoney describes these as predatory, and archivists of color often decry them as a form of institutional exploitation and opportunism.In a blog post, the archivist Eira Tansey raises a related concern: How might stories of trauma become "commodities for outsiders to consume every time hurricane season rolls around or a new anniversary" occurs?Such practices fly in the face of what scholars advocate as a decolonizing process of "s…
Documenting Covid-19
The article offers information on how public history organizations are handling the twin pandemics of the coronavirus disease COVID-19 and racial inequality in the United States (U S ) Three roundtable discussions were held, which included participation by professor Ricia Anne Chansky, forensic anthropologist Anna N Dhody, archivist Meredith Evans, curators Peter Leibhold, Alexandra Lord, Amanda L Mahoney, Louise E Shaw, Sam Vong, and director of…
History Unbounded: A Relaunch of the Public History Review Section
In 1989 Thomas J. Schlereth inaugurated the Exhibition Reviews section of the Journal of American History, arguing that “museum exhibits and their related elements” were “a distinct medium for identifying, organizing, comparing, analyzing, and communicating historical information and interpretation,” and that museums had become a place where trained historians conducted research and presented scholarship. He acknowledged that museums had a profou…
Women at the Wheel: A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars by Katherine J. Parkin
Reviewed by: Women at the Wheel: A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars by Katherine J. Parkin Kathleen Franz (bio) Women at the Wheel: A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars. By Katherine J. Parkin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. 272. Hardcover $28.49. Katherine Parkin opens this readable history with feminist author Betty Friedan. Driving played a prominent role in the author's life but also in her germi…
David N. Lucsko. Junkyards, Gearheads, and Rust: Salvaging the Automotive Past
Anyone who has driven a back road in the American Southwest has seen a familiar feature of the American landscape—the automotive salvage yard. Although many of us have probably looked the other way, the salvage yard and the generations of auto enthusiasts who frequented these spaces have a long and complex history that sheds light on planned obsolescence, environmental history, and public policy. David N. Lucsko makes a good case for why salvager…
Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire by Gary S. Cross, Robert N. Proctor
Reviewed by: Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire by Gary S. Cross, Robert N. Proctor Kathleen Franz (bio) Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire. By Gary S. Cross and Robert N. Proctor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. 336. $35/ebook $21. Gary Cross and Robert Proctor’s Packaged Pleasures entices the reader with its promise of unpacking the revolutionary changes con…
Life and Death on the Border, 1910–1920
Life and Death on the Border” powerfully documented the persecution and resilience of ethnic Mexicans (Tejanos) on the Texas-Mexico border between 1910 and 1920. The most compelling stories in this exhibit are the kind whispered by family members to successive generations, not those usually told in a state's official history museum. Displayed on a balcony overlooking the museum rotunda, this exhibit provided a counternarrative to the valorous, mo…
Black Suburbia: From Levittown to Ferguson
Journal Article “Black Suburbia: From Levittown to Ferguson,” Get access Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, http://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/black-suburbia.Temporary exhibition, Oct. 1, 2015–Jan. 2, 2016. National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, exhibit partner; James Levy, curator; Doria Johnson, assistant curator. Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 14…
Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House
Journal Article Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House Get access Gloucester, Mass.http://www.historicnewengland.org/historic-properties/homes/Beauport.Permanent exhibition, guided tour of historic house museum. Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 137–141, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw013 Published: 01 June 2016
Remembering the American Revolution, 1776–1890
Journal Article “Remembering the American Revolution, 1776–1890.” Get access National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C., http://www.dar.org/national-society/events/remembering-american-revolution-1776-1890.Temporary exhibition, Oct. 9, 2015–Sept. 3, 2016. Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 132–137, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw012 Published: 01 June 2016
Nation to Nation: Treaties between the United States and American Indian Nations
Journal Article “Nation to Nation: Treaties between the United States and American Indian Nations.” Get access Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C., http://www.americanindian.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/item/?id=934.Temporary exhibition, Sept. 21, 2014–Fall 2018. 8,000 square feet. Kevin Gover (Pawnee), National Museum of the American Indian director; Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee), guest curator…
Places of Invention
What is the relationship between creativity and location? That modern history is checkered with stories of creative places is almost a truism. From Florence, Italy, around 1500 to Silicon Valley around 2000, the geography of artistic and technical invention has featured places that have become synonymous with creativity. Historians of science and technology have not ignored this (nor have historians of art, architecture, or literature). In the hi…
Patient No More
Journal Article “Patient No More,” Get access Ed Roberts Campus, Berkeley, Calif., http://longmoreinstitute.sfsu.edu/patient-no-more.Temporary exhibition, opened July 2015. Catherine J. Kudlick, director; Fran Osborne, curator and graphic designer; Gizmo Art Production, exhibit fabricators. Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 145–147, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw015 Published: 01 June 2016
Chinese-American Museum of Chicago; National Museum of Mexican Arts; The Polish Museum of America; and National Hellenic Museum
Chicago is known for its ethnic neighborhoods and the long history of its immigrant communities. In the early twentieth century the Chicago school of urban sociology posited an influential model of residential settlement and immigrant adaptation based on observations of researchers in the city's neighborhoods. To some extent the theories associated with the Chicago school remain influential in urban studies. The city boasts at least fifteen diffe…
American Enterprise
American Enterprise,” according to its promotion on the National Museum of American History Web site, “chronicles the tumultuous interaction of capitalism and democracy that resulted in the continual remaking of American business—and American life.” This is a large exhibition, taking up eight thousand square feet of the museum's ground floor in a long corridor layout with a large alcove, the Wallace H. Coulter Exchange, dedicated to interactive a…
The Wheel Woman
The Wheel Woman,” an interactive performance at the National Museum of American History (nmah) captures visitors' attention and illuminates the gendered history of the bicycle. Although space limitations hamper the actor's ability to connect to museum exhibitions as was originally planned, the performer engages audiences with ease. Accessible and funny, the program plays to varied visitor comfort levels and uses personal conversations to help vis…
African Burying Ground Memorial Park
Journal Article African Burying Ground Memorial Park Get access Chestnut Street between Court and State Streets, Portsmouth, N.H. http://www.africanburyinggroundnh.org.Permanent memorial, opened May 23, 2015. Design Team: African Burial Ground Committee; Jerome Meadows, Artist; Roberta Woodburn, Landscape Architect; New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources; Portsmouth Public Forums; Portsmouth City Council. Journal of American History, Volu…
Canadian War Museum
Rolls Down like Water: The American Civil Rights Movement
Journal Article Rolls Down like Water: The American Civil Rights Movement Get access The American Civil Rights Movement Gallery, The Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, Ga., https://www.civilandhumanrights.org.Permanent exhibition. Approximately 6,750 sq. ft. in 43,000 sq. ft. museum. George C. Wolfe, curator and chief creative officer; The Rockwell Group, exhibition designers. Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 3, December 20…
Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum
Hawaiian and Pacific Halls, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
Journal Article Hawaiian and Pacific Halls, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Get access Honolulu, Hawaii. http://www.bishopmuseum.org.Permanent exhibition, opened 1892, Renovated exhibits opened 2009 and 2013. Ralph Applebaum Associates, exhibit design; Dave Kemble, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum senior exhibit designer; Glenn Mason of Mason Architects, historic preservation. Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 3, December 2015, Pages 817–82…
Motoring: The Highway Experience in America (review)
Reviewed by: Motoring: The Highway Experience in America Kathleen Franz (bio) Motoring: The Highway Experience in America. By John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008. Pp. xiii+274. $34.95. This is John Jakle and Keith Sculle’s latest contribution to a series of books on roadside architecture that explore the design, history, and social influence of familiar structures from gas stations to parking lots. Publish…
Documenting Covid-19
The article offers information on how public history organizations are handling the twin pandemics of the coronavirus disease COVID-19 and racial inequality in the United States (U S ) Three roundtable discussions were held, which included participation by professor Ricia Anne Chansky, forensic anthropologist Anna N Dhody, archivist Meredith Evans, curators Peter Leibhold, Alexandra Lord, Amanda L Mahoney, Louise E Shaw, Sam Vong, and director of…
Nation to Nation: Treaties between the United States and American Indian Nations
Journal Article “Nation to Nation: Treaties between the United States and American Indian Nations.” Get access Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C., http://www.americanindian.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/item/?id=934.Temporary exhibition, Sept. 21, 2014–Fall 2018. 8,000 square feet. Kevin Gover (Pawnee), National Museum of the American Indian director; Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee), guest curator…
Girlhood (It’s complicated)
Girlhood (It’s complicated) is an exhibition at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), part of the Smithsonian Institution, which opened in October of 2020. Created with federal funding as part of the American Women’s History Initiative (AWHI), the exhibition commemorates the centennial of women’s suffrage. To put a fresh spin on this anniversary and draw attention to larger, intertwining issues of gender and politics in the United State…
Mississippi Valley Textile Museum Mary Lettner
On Time, The National Museum of American History
Loitering at the entrance to the exhibit On Time at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), one immediately observes clusters of touring families keeping track of time. They glance at their watches, instruct children in lessons of punctuality, and declare that if they move quickly enough and "stay on time" they can see the entire Smithsonian in a day. 1
Flying Down to Rio: Hollywood, Tourists, and Yankee Clippers (review)
Reviewed by: Flying Down to Rio: Hollywood, Tourists, and Yankee Clippers Kathleen Franz (bio) Flying Down to Rio: Hollywood, Tourists, and Yankee Clippers. By Rosalie Schwartz. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. Pp. 386. $60/$24.95. The ninth volume in the Centennial of Flight Series, Flying Down to Rio unpacks the romance of early international flight by examining the popular motivations, business structures, and international r…
Producing Consumers
Producing Consumers Kathleen Franz (bio) A Token of My Affection: Greeting Cards and American Business Culture. By Barry Shank. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 368 pages. $25.00 (paper). Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles and the American Landscape. By Catherine Gudis. London: Routledge, 2004. 272 pages. $32.95 (paper). "Super highways—Super speed—People have—no time to read." In a tribute to the Burma Shave company's innovative roadside…
Driving Women: Fiction and Automobile Culture in Twentieth-Century America (review)
Reviewed by: Driving Women: Fiction and Automobile Culture in Twentieth-Century America Kathleen Franz (bio) Driving Women: Fiction and Automobile Culture in Twentieth-Century America. By Deborah Clarke . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007 Pp. xxii+225. $49/ $25. With the introduction of the automobile came new opportunities for Americans to redefine their relationships to technology and public space. Users articulated the meanings o…
Motoring: The Highway Experience in America (review)
Reviewed by: Motoring: The Highway Experience in America Kathleen Franz (bio) Motoring: The Highway Experience in America. By John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008. Pp. xiii+274. $34.95. This is John Jakle and Keith Sculle’s latest contribution to a series of books on roadside architecture that explore the design, history, and social influence of familiar structures from gas stations to parking lots. Publish…
African Burying Ground Memorial Park
Journal Article African Burying Ground Memorial Park Get access Chestnut Street between Court and State Streets, Portsmouth, N.H. http://www.africanburyinggroundnh.org.Permanent memorial, opened May 23, 2015. Design Team: African Burial Ground Committee; Jerome Meadows, Artist; Roberta Woodburn, Landscape Architect; New Hampshire Division of Historical Resources; Portsmouth Public Forums; Portsmouth City Council. Journal of American History, Volu…
Canadian War Museum
Rolls Down like Water: The American Civil Rights Movement
Journal Article Rolls Down like Water: The American Civil Rights Movement Get access The American Civil Rights Movement Gallery, The Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, Ga., https://www.civilandhumanrights.org.Permanent exhibition. Approximately 6,750 sq. ft. in 43,000 sq. ft. museum. George C. Wolfe, curator and chief creative officer; The Rockwell Group, exhibition designers. Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 3, December 20…
Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum
Hawaiian and Pacific Halls, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
Journal Article Hawaiian and Pacific Halls, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Get access Honolulu, Hawaii. http://www.bishopmuseum.org.Permanent exhibition, opened 1892, Renovated exhibits opened 2009 and 2013. Ralph Applebaum Associates, exhibit design; Dave Kemble, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum senior exhibit designer; Glenn Mason of Mason Architects, historic preservation. Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 3, December 2015, Pages 817–82…
Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire by Gary S. Cross, Robert N. Proctor
Reviewed by: Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire by Gary S. Cross, Robert N. Proctor Kathleen Franz (bio) Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire. By Gary S. Cross and Robert N. Proctor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. 336. $35/ebook $21. Gary Cross and Robert Proctor’s Packaged Pleasures entices the reader with its promise of unpacking the revolutionary changes con…
Life and Death on the Border, 1910–1920
Life and Death on the Border” powerfully documented the persecution and resilience of ethnic Mexicans (Tejanos) on the Texas-Mexico border between 1910 and 1920. The most compelling stories in this exhibit are the kind whispered by family members to successive generations, not those usually told in a state's official history museum. Displayed on a balcony overlooking the museum rotunda, this exhibit provided a counternarrative to the valorous, mo…
Black Suburbia: From Levittown to Ferguson
Journal Article “Black Suburbia: From Levittown to Ferguson,” Get access Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, http://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/black-suburbia.Temporary exhibition, Oct. 1, 2015–Jan. 2, 2016. National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, exhibit partner; James Levy, curator; Doria Johnson, assistant curator. Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 14…
Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House
Journal Article Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House Get access Gloucester, Mass.http://www.historicnewengland.org/historic-properties/homes/Beauport.Permanent exhibition, guided tour of historic house museum. Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 137–141, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw013 Published: 01 June 2016
Remembering the American Revolution, 1776–1890
Journal Article “Remembering the American Revolution, 1776–1890.” Get access National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C., http://www.dar.org/national-society/events/remembering-american-revolution-1776-1890.Temporary exhibition, Oct. 9, 2015–Sept. 3, 2016. Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 132–137, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw012 Published: 01 June 2016
Nation to Nation: Treaties between the United States and American Indian Nations
Journal Article “Nation to Nation: Treaties between the United States and American Indian Nations.” Get access Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C., http://www.americanindian.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/item/?id=934.Temporary exhibition, Sept. 21, 2014–Fall 2018. 8,000 square feet. Kevin Gover (Pawnee), National Museum of the American Indian director; Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee), guest curator…
Places of Invention
What is the relationship between creativity and location? That modern history is checkered with stories of creative places is almost a truism. From Florence, Italy, around 1500 to Silicon Valley around 2000, the geography of artistic and technical invention has featured places that have become synonymous with creativity. Historians of science and technology have not ignored this (nor have historians of art, architecture, or literature). In the hi…
Patient No More
Journal Article “Patient No More,” Get access Ed Roberts Campus, Berkeley, Calif., http://longmoreinstitute.sfsu.edu/patient-no-more.Temporary exhibition, opened July 2015. Catherine J. Kudlick, director; Fran Osborne, curator and graphic designer; Gizmo Art Production, exhibit fabricators. Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Pages 145–147, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw015 Published: 01 June 2016
Chinese-American Museum of Chicago; National Museum of Mexican Arts; The Polish Museum of America; and National Hellenic Museum
Chicago is known for its ethnic neighborhoods and the long history of its immigrant communities. In the early twentieth century the Chicago school of urban sociology posited an influential model of residential settlement and immigrant adaptation based on observations of researchers in the city's neighborhoods. To some extent the theories associated with the Chicago school remain influential in urban studies. The city boasts at least fifteen diffe…
American Enterprise
American Enterprise,” according to its promotion on the National Museum of American History Web site, “chronicles the tumultuous interaction of capitalism and democracy that resulted in the continual remaking of American business—and American life.” This is a large exhibition, taking up eight thousand square feet of the museum's ground floor in a long corridor layout with a large alcove, the Wallace H. Coulter Exchange, dedicated to interactive a…
The Wheel Woman
The Wheel Woman,” an interactive performance at the National Museum of American History (nmah) captures visitors' attention and illuminates the gendered history of the bicycle. Although space limitations hamper the actor's ability to connect to museum exhibitions as was originally planned, the performer engages audiences with ease. Accessible and funny, the program plays to varied visitor comfort levels and uses personal conversations to help vis…
David N. Lucsko. Junkyards, Gearheads, and Rust: Salvaging the Automotive Past
Anyone who has driven a back road in the American Southwest has seen a familiar feature of the American landscape—the automotive salvage yard. Although many of us have probably looked the other way, the salvage yard and the generations of auto enthusiasts who frequented these spaces have a long and complex history that sheds light on planned obsolescence, environmental history, and public policy. David N. Lucsko makes a good case for why salvager…
History Unbounded: A Relaunch of the Public History Review Section
In 1989 Thomas J. Schlereth inaugurated the Exhibition Reviews section of the Journal of American History, arguing that “museum exhibits and their related elements” were “a distinct medium for identifying, organizing, comparing, analyzing, and communicating historical information and interpretation,” and that museums had become a place where trained historians conducted research and presented scholarship. He acknowledged that museums had a profou…
Women at the Wheel: A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars by Katherine J. Parkin
Reviewed by: Women at the Wheel: A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars by Katherine J. Parkin Kathleen Franz (bio) Women at the Wheel: A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars. By Katherine J. Parkin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. 272. Hardcover $28.49. Katherine Parkin opens this readable history with feminist author Betty Friedan. Driving played a prominent role in the author's life but also in her germi…
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