@article{gordon_2019, title={History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s}, volume={124}, ISSN={["1937-5239"]}, DOI={10.1093/ahr/rhy449}, abstractNote={History Comes Alive centralizes historical consciousness in the cultural changes of the 1970s first identified in Bruce Schulman’s germinal 2001 work The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics. As Schulman and other scholars have noted, the long seventies in the United States was characterized by a new cultural emphasis on self-actualization. M. J. Rymsza-Pawlowska skillfully engages this central question in the historiography of the 1970s, with a focused look at historical themes in television, in commemorative practices (both official and vernacular), in material culture (through living history), and in activism. She convincingly demonstrates a fundamental change in Americans’ historical habits through feeling and sensory experience, a transformation affecting diverse cultural practices and products related to history. Rymsza-Pawlowska’s chapter on television is particularly demonstrative of the overall argument and addresses change over time explicitly. “Past as Present: History on Television from the 1950s to the 1970s” traces the transformation from historical knowledge in the 1950s, shown on TV as “unfolding logically and rationally into the present and then the future” (13), to more of an emphasis in the 1970s on how historical events felt, detailing popular shows like Little House on the Prairie and miniseries like Eleanor and Franklin and Roots. The chapter detailing museum professionals’ use of this cultural shift, “The Spaces of History: Museums, Interactivity, and Immersion,” shows a newly reenergized field of cultural workers eager (perhaps too eager?) to design experiences for visitors through kinesthetic interactive exhibits and AV technologies, particularly ones that allowed individual and personal access to historical material, such as the “Franklin Exchange” at Franklin Court in Philadelphia, which was a room full of phones that visitors could use to hear “voices” of historical figures influenced by Benjamin Franklin. Readers looking for information on the 1976 commemoration of the American Revolution will find much that is helpful in History Comes Alive, as Rymsza-Pawlowska shows both planners’ and participants’ searches for the feeling of history in activities related to the Bicentennial. Rymsza-Pawlowska’s discussion of the Bicentennial Wagon Train is particularly insightful in delineating the differences between the intentions of federal planners and the experiences of participants. She shows that the event, planned and implemented by the Pennsylvania Bicentennial Commission with corporate support, operated on two levels. Planners intended to invoke patriotism with a reenactment of settlement in reverse, but participants experienced a range of reactions that did not reflect the planners’ intentions. This example, like numerous others in this book, speaks to the Rymsza-Pawlowska’s argument that immersive, affective sensory engagement produces diverse and contradictory meanings.}, number={1}, journal={AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW}, author={Gordon, Tammy S.}, year={2019}, month={Feb}, pages={299–300} }
 @article{gordon_2015, title={‘Take Amtrak to Black History’: marketing heritage tourism to African Americans in the 1970s}, volume={7}, ISSN={1755-182X 1755-1838}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1755182X.2015.1047804}, DOI={10.1080/1755182X.2015.1047804}, abstractNote={This analysis provides a critical reading of travel industry advertisements that appeared in Ebony magazine in the 1970s and identifies the causes of the African-American travel boom of the early 1970s: increasing prosperity of the black middle class, market segmentation in the travel industry and burgeoning popular interest in social and cultural history. It argues that travel industry advertisements aimed at African Americans, which emphasised travel as a crucial step in mending the social and cultural fissures racism left between African Americans in the USA and the rest of the nation and world, attempted to address African-American interests in heritage and heritage travel as agents for social change. African Americans responded to industry interest in their travel needs in diverse ways, sometimes criticising the travel industry’s oversimplification of heritage travel, other times embracing travel as a method of using historical knowledge for self-empowerment. This study points to the need for further historical analysis of African-American tourism and its role in confronting de facto segregation and racism in the late Cold War era and in building an increasingly globalised leisure economy.}, number={1-2}, journal={Journal of Tourism History}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Gordon, Tammy S.}, year={2015}, month={May}, pages={54–74} }
 @article{gordon_2013, title={Visual Agency: The Photograph as an Instrument for Change}, volume={41}, ISSN={0361-2759 1930-8280}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03612759.2013.791539}, DOI={10.1080/03612759.2013.791539}, abstractNote={T hat the photojournalist has been an agent for social change is an accepted part of dialogue about photography. The three works that are the subjects of this essay, however, test the power of photography as an instrument of progress by exploring the image as used by amateurs, activists, authors, entrepreneurs, historians, archivists, and consumers of photographs, as well as by professional photographers. The authors of Pictures and Progress, The Camera as Historian, and Through the Lens of Allen E. Cole uncover the sometimes}, number={3}, journal={History: Reviews of New Books}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Gordon, Tammy S.}, year={2013}, month={Jul}, pages={87–90} }
 @misc{gordon_2011, title={Steven Conn . Do Museums Still Need Objects? (The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2010. Pp. 262. $39.95.}, volume={116}, ISSN={0002-8762 1937-5239}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/ahr.116.5.1442}, DOI={10.1086/ahr.116.5.1442}, abstractNote={Journal Article Steven ConnDo Museums Still Need Objects? (The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2010. Pp. 262. $39.95. Get access Steven Conn. Do Museums Still Need Objects? (The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2010. Pp. 262. $39.95. Tammy S. Gordon Tammy S. Gordon University of North Carolina, Wilmington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 5, December 2011, Page 1442, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr.116.5.1442 Published: 01 December 2011}, number={5}, journal={The American Historical Review}, publisher={Oxford University Press (OUP)}, author={Gordon, Tammy S.}, year={2011}, month={Dec}, pages={1442–1442} }