Review: Engaging Museums: Rhetorical Education and Social Justice, by Lauren E. Obermark

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Book Review| May 01 2023 Review: Engaging Museums: Rhetorical Education and Social Justice, by Lauren E. Obermark Engaging Museums: Rhetorical Education and Social Justice by Lauren E. Obermark. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2022. 196 pp.; paperback, $40.00. Rachel Vogt Rachel Vogt The Columbus Museum Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2023) 45 (2): 146–147. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.2.146 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Rachel Vogt; Review: Engaging Museums: Rhetorical Education and Social Justice, by Lauren E. Obermark. The Public Historian 1 May 2023; 45 (2): 146–147. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2023.45.2.146 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search In Engaging Museums: Rhetorical Education and Social Justice, Lauren E. Obermark seeks to improve public rhetoric education in the United States, as well as argue for its renewed relevance in an increasingly divisive society. Museums, she posits, can offer models and methods to revise and modernize rhetorical education by challenging the very definition of where and how rhetoric is practiced. To explore this assertion, Obermark undertakes three rhetorical case studies at three sites of public history: the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (Cincinnati, OH), the National World War I Museum (Kansas City, MO), and the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum (Oklahoma City, OK). At each site, Obermark asks how museum pedagogy and practice can move rhetorical education forward to a place of greater equity, ultimately arguing that the needed improvement “can come from the centering of social justice” (6). By focusing on these lesser known, albeit national, museums, Obermark... You do not currently have access to this content.