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Rebirth: Creating the Museum of the Reconstruction Era and the Future of the House Museum: List of Illustrations

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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 ix →List of Illustrations

Figure 1. Edith Bolling Galt Wilson

Figure 2. Woodrow Wilson

Figure 3. MoRE at the Woodrow Wilson Family Home, first floor plan

Figure 4. MoRE at the Woodrow Wilson Family Home, second floor plan

Figure 5. Bed and bureau, Woodrow Wilson Family Home

Figure 6. Digitized interactive of bird’s-eye map of Columbia

Figure 7. Patchwork quilt and family pew, Woodrow Wilson Family Home

Figure 8. Reproduction stereoscopes

Figure 9. Wilson’s birthplace

Figure 10. Back of the Staunton manse

Figure 11. Manse maintained by First Presbyterian Church of Augusta

Figure 12. Sanborn fire insurance map, Columbia (1919)

Figure 13. Rooms 6 and 7 of the Museum of the Reconstruction Era tour map

Figure 14. Howe family portrait, 1892

Figure 15. Reconstruction-era “red shirt”

Figure 16. Reconstruction-era tissue ballot

Figure 17. Reconstruction historiography artifacts on display

Figure 18. Stills from film Birth of a Nation

Figure 19. Sketch of South Carolina State Legislature, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 1876

Figure 20. Ballot box from 1876 election Page x →

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