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table of contents
  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Part I. Bait and Switch?
    1. Chapter 1: Building Shrines: Women Gatekeepers and Making the President Southern
      1. The Woodrow Wilson Family Home’s Origins as Presidential Shrine
      2. The Virginians
      3. The Mausoleum and President Woodrow Wilson House
      4. A New Shrine for the Twenty-First Century
      5. Joseph Wilson’s Career and Making a Southern Family
    2. Chapter 2: The Rebirth: Making the Museum of the Reconstruction Era
      1. A Brief Synopsis of the Tour
      2. Walking in the Footsteps of the President
      3. Objecting to Objects
      4. Death of the Docent?
    3. Chapter 3: Docent Training: Unlearning the Lost Cause and Reconstruction Memory
      1. Designing the Training
      2. Docent Response to Training
      3. Evaluating the Docents
      4. “You Cannot Please Everybody”: Rejecting the Interpretation
      5. Who Makes the Best Docent?
  10. Part II. Interpreting Silences, Violence, and Memories
    1. Chapter 4: Aren’t I a Citizen? Interpreting the Lives of Black Women and Domestic Workers in Historic House Museums
      1. The Problem of White Privilege: Language and Cultural Sensitivity Training
      2. A Labor of Love and Sorrow: Interpreting the Lives of Domestic Workers
    2. Chapter 5: Interpreting Domestic Terror: Reconstruction’s Violent End in the Twenty-First Century
      1. A Brief History of White Supremacy and Its Paramilitary Forces
      2. Women, Public History, and White Supremacy
      3. Challenging White Supremacy through Material Culture: The Red Shirt and Tissue Ballot
    3. Chapter 6: Interpreting the Craft: Doing Reconstruction History
      1. A Difficult Transition: From Political Terrorism to a White Supremacist Narrative of Reconstruction
    4. Chapter 7: (Re)Writing History with Lightning: Interpreting Memory and White Supremacy
      1. Rewriting History with Lightning: Crafting the Legacy of Woodrow Wilson and Reconstruction
      2. Birth of a Problem
      3. Reliving the Past and Nationalizing Columbia’s Reconstruction History
      4. Rebirth of a Problem
      5. Racism in Degrees: Interpreting Wilson and White Supremacy
      6. But What about Gone with the Wind? Conclusions and the Act of Letting Go
  11. Conclusion. The Public’s Response to the MoRE
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index

  • Page 332 →wage labor, 4, 112, 130, 135–36, 171, 179
  • Waites, Robin, 17, 226, 284n3, 297n43, 298n70, 297n43
  • Wald, Jane, 189
  • Walker, Alex, 153
  • War on Terror, 165
  • Washington, Booker T., 212, 238n15
  • Washington, George, 38
  • Washington-Williams, Essie Mae, 141
  • Weeksville Heritage Center, 7–8, 240n39
  • West, Patricia, 227, 238n15, 243–44nn5–7,
  • Westcott, Holly, 83, 92, 100, 107, 212
  • Western historicism, 111
  • Whipper, W. J., 153
  • white gaze, 9
  • white nationalism, 12, 21, 147, 168, 230
  • white privilege, 21, 85, 115, 123–26, 189
  • white supremacy: challenges to, 2, 12–13, 22–23, 180; Confederate monuments, 12; contemporary iterations, 146–49, 159, 165–68, 229–30, 275n7, 298n69; public history interpretation, 13–14, 21, 65, 76, 84–86, 98, 102–3, 106–9, 115, 145–46, 158, 164–65, 168, 172, 191, 193, 195, 212, 219–20, 223, 225; Reconstruction narrative, 11, 15, 16, 19–20, 22–23, 34, 84–86, 99, 105, 107–9, 115, 145–46, 150–51, 154, 157, 163, 167, 172, 174, 179–80, 223, 229–31, 235; Wilson presidency, 50, 51, 65, 76, 99, 191, 196–97, 208–9, 212; among women, 149–50, 159; see also Birth of a Nation, The (film); Dixon, Thomas; DJ Spooky; Dunning School; Griffith, D. W.; Ku Klux Klan (KKK); racial terrorism/violence; Rebirth of a Nation (film); Red Shirts; Smith, Ellison D. “Cotton Ed”; Tillman, Benjamin Ryan “Pitchfork Ben”
  • white women’s organizations, 19, 27, 31, 220
  • White, Edward D., 196
  • White, Hayden, 185
  • whiteness, 121, 126, 142, 151, 154–55, 164, 175, 193, 203
  • Whitmer, Gretchen, 166
  • Whitney Plantation: 10, 31, 241n49, 241n52; see also Nash, Woodrow
  • Williams, Albert B., 175
  • Williams, Budd, 153
  • Williamson, Joel, 208–9
  • Wilson Tag Day, 35
  • Wilson, Annie, 59, 63
  • Wilson, Charles Reagan, 86
  • Wilson, Edith Gault: 39, 132; Woodrow Wilson Family Home, 19, 27, 30, 37, 55; Staunton HHM support, 18, 36–38, 40–45, 68, 227, 250nn66–67, 250–51nn72–73
  • Wilson, Ellen, 44, 47, 50, 96, 199
  • Wilson, Janet “Jessie,” 48, 53, 59, 72, 119, 129, 252n94
  • Wilson, Joseph Ruggles (father): 57, 59, 62, 85, 139, 253n94; Confederacy support, 48–49, 51–52, 213; fatherhood, 51, 128, 130, 138; Presbyterian ministry, 30, 45, 50–51, 53, 127, 130, 161
  • Wilson, Margaret, 195
  • Wilson, Marion, 59
  • Wilson, Woodrow: 59, 139, 215, 227–28; Americanism, 245n21; Birth of A Nation thoughts, 15, 187, 191–92, 195–99, 204–5, 207–8, 217, 283n4, 285n24, 286n27; Black support for, 54, 65–66, 213; childhood, 14, 20, 30, 48–51, 86–87, 152, 253n111; civil rights movement, 15; Civil War, 48–49, 52–53; Fourteen Points, 65, 194; as historian, 174–75, 177–78, 182–83, 215, 230, 235, 279n22; League of Nations, 65, 211, 214–15, 225; marriage to Edith Galt, 18–19, 38, 40, 45; marriage to Ellen Axson, 50, 96; New Jersey governorship, 28, 196; paternalism toward Black Americans, 45, 128, 132; Presbyterianism, 60, 64, 72, 85; Princeton presidency, 11, 44, 47, 252n90; progressivism, 194, 209, 212; race/white supremacy, 1, 14, 22, 46–47, 50, 65, 95, 99, 115, 129, 184, 191, 196–98, 208–10, 212–13, 225, 233, 281–82n41; racist violence, 161–62; Reconstruction experiences, 7, 13, 22, 30, 48, 87, 90–92, 95, 171–72, 183–84, 225; relationship Page 333 →with Thomas Dixon, 82, 168, 195–97, 285n23; segregation support, 180, 211, 214, 244n6, 256n27; slavery ambivalence, 129–30, 188; southern-ness, 30, 33, 45–47, 50, 54–55, 64, 128, 209–10, 245n21, 252n95; US presidency, 14, 28–29, 44, 46, 50, 64, 185, 194, 225, 297n70; World War I, 180, 214–15, 225, 256n28; see also Birth of a Nation (film): White House screening
  • Within our Gates (film): 207–8
  • Women’s Christian Temperance Union, 33
  • women’s suffrage, 28, 88, 208, 243n4, 275n16, 281–82n41
  • Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation (WWBF): 49, 249n60, 252n85; Edith Wilson’s involvement, 37–38, 40, 42–43, 251n78; fundraising, 40–42; see also Smith, Emily; Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum
  • Woodrow Wilson Boyhood Home (WWBH): 47–48, 50; Joseph Wilson’s Confederacy support, 51–52; Reconstruction history, 30, 49, 51; slavery interpretation, 120, 129; Wilson’s childhood, 20, 54, 55
  • Woodrow Wilson Family Home (WWFH): 70, 89, 265n57; Black labor interpretation, 119–20, 125–26, 130, 132, 136–37, 143; family history interpretation, 1, 7, 13–15, 59, 61; fundraising, 35–37; history of, 2, 18–20, 27–28, 29–37, 62–63; original interpretation of, 1, 13, 17, 23, 99, 119, 297n70; material culture, 20, 30, 57–58, 66–68, 73; name/focus change, 11, 13, 15, 22, 72–73; Reconstruction interpretation, 1, 15, 20, 22, 31, 57–58, 60, 62–69, 71, 77, 93, 119, 220, 254n4, 260n9; women’s organizations involvement, 32–34; see also Cappelmann, Ruth; Museum of Reconstruction Era (MoRE); Woodrow Wilson Purchase Fund (WWPF)
  • Woodrow Wilson Film Memorial, The (film), 37
  • Woodrow Wilson Memorial Society, 37
  • Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum (WWPLM), 18, 37, 43, 46, 54–55, 120, 143
  • Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum (WWPLM): 18, 30, 126–28, 192, 298n66; Black labor, 130, 132; fundraising, 37–38, 40–43, 68; shrine model, 40, 253n87; slavery, 120, 128–29, 130; see also Wilson, Edith Galt: Staunton HHM support
  • Woodrow Wilson Purchase Fund (WWPF), 34–35, 246n31, 247n33
  • Woodrow, James, 50, 52, 85, 161
  • Woodrow, Marion, 50
  • Woodward, C. Vann, 179
  • working-class people, 21, 31
  • Works Progress Administration (WPA) guides, 10, 151–52, 155, 157, 175, 195, 200, 244n7, 249n52
  • World War I, 19, 29, 179–80, 194, 199, 209, 214–16, 225, 256n28
  • World War II, 41
  • Wright, Annie, 63, 92, 94, 220, 260n12, 261n26
  • Wright, Sylvanus, 153
  • Zuczek, Richard, 91

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