History Is Bunk: Assembling the Past at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village

by Jessie Swigger

Book Overview

In 1916 a clearly agitated Henry Ford famously proclaimed that "history is more or less bunk." Thirteen years later, however, he opened the outdoor history museum Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. It was written history's focus on politicians and military heroes that was bunk, he explained. Greenfield Village would correct this error by celebrating farmers and inventors. The village eventually included a replica of Thomas Edison's Menlo Park,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625340788
• ISBN13: 9781625340788
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.5"