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Even while governments and teachers lament the decline in History education, Australians' passion for the past gets stronger. More people are researching family history, millions go to museums, and history books are one of the strongest selling categories.
Paula Hamilton and Paul Ashton visit each room in the 'House of History', with chapters on:
Classroom history
Museums
Historical soceities
Monuments and Tourism
Family History
Commemorations
Personal Collections
Public History
Drawing in part on an extensive national survey, backed by innovative research, personal interviews, and close observation of social and educational trends, the media and politics, History at the Crossroads outlines our attitudes to the past.
In moves toward the National Curriculum, in Federal enquiries into museums, and complaints by academic critics about unqualified historians, Ashton and Hamilton see new questions about ownership of the past and the way it is presented. Their findings are often surprising and always thought provoking.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: The House of History
Chapter 1: Working with History: Australians and their Pasts
Chapter 2: Familial 'Past-itis': Genealogy and Family History
Chapter 3: Pioneers and Progress? Historical Societies
Chapter 4: Days of Our Lives: Anniversaries and Celebrations
Chapter 5: Chalk and Talk? History in High Schools
Chapter 6: 'A Thread Through Time': Keeping and Collecting Objects
Chapter 7: The Real Thing? History in Museums
Chapter 8: Landscape and Memory: Historic Sites, Memorials and Cultural Tourism
Chapter 9: Cupboards to Computers: Photographs
Chapter 10: Mediating Memory: History on Television
Chapter 11: New Professionals: Public History
Conclusion
AUTHOR DETAILS
Associate Professors Paula Hamilton and Paul Ashton are co-directors of the Australian Centre for Public History and the Centre of Creative Practice and Cultural Economy at the University of Technology, Sydney.
