A01=Nick Yablon
archive
artifacts
Author_Nick Yablon
bicentennial
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commemoration
crossing brooklyn ferry
democracy
diversity
edward bellamy
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film
future
generations
gilded age
great depression
history
hope
imagination
inclusion
information overload
insurgence
legacy
mark twain
memory
modern historic records association
modernity
mortality
nation
nonfiction
phonographs
photographs
politics
posteritism
preservation
progress
remembrance
san francisco
temperance
temporal displacement
temporality
time capsules
utopia
walt whitman
Product details
- ISBN 9780226574134
- Weight: 709g
- Dimensions: 17 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 12 Jun 2019
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Time capsules offer unexpected insights into how people view their own time, place, and culture, as well as their duties to future generations. Remembrance of Things Present traces the birth of this device to the Gilded Age, when growing urban volatility prompted doubts about how the period would be remembered—or if it would be remembered at all. Yablon details how diverse Americans – from presidents and mayors to advocates for the rights of women, blacks, and workers – constructed prospective memories of their present. They did so by contributing not just written testimony to time capsules but also sources that historians and archivists considered illegitimate, such as photographs, phonograph records, films, and everyday artifacts.
By offering a direct line to posterity, time capsules stimulated various hopes for the future. Remembrance of Things Present delves into these treasure chests to unearth those forgotten futures.
By offering a direct line to posterity, time capsules stimulated various hopes for the future. Remembrance of Things Present delves into these treasure chests to unearth those forgotten futures.
