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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.2 | The History Cooperative
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The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg. By Richard Handler and Eric Gable. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997. xii, 260 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 0-8223-1978-0. Paper, $16.95, isbn 0-8223-1974-8.)

Richard Handler and Eric Gable have written an important and troubling book that uses Colonial Williamsburg as a prism that reveals fundamental questions about the effectiveness of museums. Important, because its publication immediately elevates the level of discourse about museums. And troubling, because the impact of the authors' argument is lessened by its "ambush journalism" writing style that seems to take as much glee in embarrassing as it does in enlightening. . . .

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