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Exhibition Reviews
Edward T. Linenthal and Kym S. Rice Contributing Editors
Introduction
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The contributing editors encourage readers to suggest representations of history in American public culture that might be reviewed. In addition to continuing coverage of museum exhibitions, they are interested in covering living history projects, historical pageants and reenactments, memorials, historic preservation projects, and virtual museums. Please contact:
| Edward T. Linenthal |
Kym S. Rice |
| Department of Religious Studies |
Museum Studies Program |
| University of Wisconsin |
George Washington University |
| Oshkosh, WI 54901 |
2035 F St., NW |
| <etl@uwosh.edu> |
Washington, DC 20052 |
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<kym@gwu.edu> |
We would like to thank the American Association for State and Local History for providing information on the work of its members.
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"One Nation under God: The Church, the State, and the Louisiana Purchase." Louisiana State Museum, the Cabildo, 701 Chartres, New Orleans, LA 70116.
Temporary exhibition, Oct. 17, 2003April 18, 2004. 1,414 sq. ft. Alicia P. Long, curator; Sam Rykels, exhibition designer.
Internet: highlights of the exhibition, including photographs, documents, and text <http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/site/1nation/1nation.htm> (Sept. 18, 2004).
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| In the midst of a flurry of celebrations and publications related to the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase, the curator, Alicia P. Long, and the Louisiana State Museum mounted a distinctive exhibition on an important but neglected aspect of the transfer of Louisiana to the United States: the shift from a European system of state support for the Roman Catholic Church to the American denominational system and religious diversity. |
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