| ID | 151743 |
| Title Proper | Manhoods and museums |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Nagel, Joane |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Peggy Levitt’s Artifacts and Allegiances led me to recollect some of the displays of national identity and culture that I have seen in US museums over the years. The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Museum in Abilene, Kansas traces Eisenhower from his modest boyhood in small-town Kansas to the helm of a victorious military in the Second World War to his Presidency of a triumphant superpower after the war. At the Eisenhower museum there is a seamless optimism linking the local and the global |
| `In' analytical Note | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Vol. 24, No.1; Feb 2017: p.41-47 |
| Journal Source | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 2017-02 24, 1 |
| Key Words | Sociology ; Nationalism ; ART ; Gender ; Masculinity ; Museums |