| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory. By Gary B. Nash. ( Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. 383 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8122-3630-0.)

Philadelphia is probably the most important city in America's collective memory of the past, Gary B. Nash reminds us. Both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were drawn up there, and it was the nation's capital from 1790 until 1800. How Philadelphians remembered, celebrated, and forgot their past from the eighteenth century until the present is First City's subject. At the heart of this well-crafted book is an examination of how Philadelphia's museums and libraries have collected and thus recollected the past. Each chapter opens with a succinct summary of Philadelphia's history in the period under consideration. Nash then examines the ways in which the city's museums and libraries, most prominently the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, gathered materials and displayed them. . . .

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