Pennsylvania in Public Memory
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Pennsylvania in Public Memory

Reclaiming the Industrial Past

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Pennsylvania in Public Memory

Reclaiming the Industrial Past

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What stories do we tell about America's once-great industries at a time when they are fading from the landscape? Pennsylvania in Public Memory attempts to answer that question, exploring the emergence of a heritage culture of industry and its loss through the lens of its most representative industrial state. Based on news coverage, interviews, and more than two hundred heritage sites, this book traces the narrative themes that shape modern public memory of coal, steel, railroading, lumber, oil, and agriculture, and that collectively tell a story about national as well as local identity in a changing social and economic world.

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Publisher
Penn State University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780271056883
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Public Memory and the Legacies of Labor
  7. Chapter 1: “Almost a Nation”: The History of Industrial Heritage in Pennsylvania
  8. Chapter 2: “A Journey That Will Inspire”: Regions, Routes, and Rails
  9. Chapter 3: “Overcomin’ What Nature Put in Your Way”: Rural Heritage and Pioneer Mythology
  10. Chapter 4: “Where I Came From, How I Got Here”: Ethnic Diversity, Cultural Tourism, and the Memory of Immigration
  11. Chapter 5: “Deep Veins of Loss”: Sacrifice and Heroism in Coal Country
  12. Chapter 6: “From Our Family to Yours”: Personal Meanings of Work in Factory Tourism
  13. Chapter 7: “Steel Made This Town”: An Unfinished Story in Uncertain Times
  14. Chapter 8: “What’s the Use of Wond’rin’?”: The Questions of Industrial Heritage
  15. Epilogue: The Future of Pennsylvania’s Past
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. Back Cover