Acknowledgments Introduction I. Memory, History, and Cultural Authority Headnotes 1. Oral History and Hard Times: A Review Essay 2. The Memory of History 3. American History and the Structures of Collective Memory: A Modest Exercise in Empirical Iconography II. Interpretive Authority in Oral History Headnotes 4. Oral History and the Presentation of Class Consciousness: The New York Times v. The Buffalo Unemployed 5. Preparing Interview Transcripts for Documentary Publication: A Line-by-Line Illustration of the Editing Process 6. Presenting and Receiving Oral History across Cultural Space: A Note on Responses of Chinese Students to the Documentary Trilogy One Village in China 7. Oral History, Documentary, and the Mystification of Power: A Critique of Vietnam: A Television History III. A Shared Authority: Scholarship, Audience, and Public Presentation Headnotes 8. Quality in History Programs: From Celebration to Exploration of Values 9. Town Into City: A Reconsideration on the Occasion of Springfield's 350th Anniversary, 1636-1986 10. "Get the Picutre?": A Review Essay 11. Audience Expectations as Resource and Challenge: Ellis Island as a Case Study 12. Urban Public History in Celebratory Contexts: The Example of the "Philadelphia's Moving Past" Project 13. The Presentation of Urban History in Big City Museums Notes