This bibliography includes resources that informed the 1999 study, Animating Democracy: The Artistic Imagination as a Force in Civic Dialogue as well as others.
- Bunch, Lonnie. "Museums in an Age of Uncertainty: Fighting the Good Fight." Museum News, March/April 1995, pp. 32-35, 58-62.
- Cassedy O. ;Donnell, Sussanah. "The Face of AIDS in Brooklyn." Museum News, May/June 1993, pp. 50-53, 89.
- ________. "The New Curator," Museum News, May/June 1994, pp. 40-43, 57-64.
- ________. "Making Peace in Crown Heights." Museum News, July/August 1994, pp. 12-13, 63.
- Excellence and Equity: Education and the Public Dimension of Museums. Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums, 1992.
- Fischer, Daryl K. "Connecting with Visitor Panels." Museum News, May/June 1997, pp. 33-37.
- Fleming, David. "Making City Histories." Making History in Museums. London: Leicester University Press, 1996.
- Garfield, Donald. "Making the Museum Mine: An Interview with Fred Wilson." Museum News, May/June 1993, pp. 46-49, 90.
- Goldberger, Paul. "Historical Shows on Trial: Who Judges?" New York Times, February 11, 1996, Section 2, p. 1.
- Harris, Neil. "Polling for Opinions." Museum News. September/October 1990, pp. 46-53.
- Karp, Ivan, Christine Mullen Kreamer, and Steven D. Lavine, eds. Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.
- Knight, Christopher. "Consider It an Artist's Exit Poll." Los Angeles Times, August 11, 1996.
- Kuo Wei Tchen, John. "Creating a Dialogic Museum: The Chinatown History Museum Experiment." In Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.
- Mackey, Eva. "Postmodernism and Cultural Politics in a Multicultural Nation: Contests over Truth in the Into the Heart of Africa Controversy." Public Culture, 1995, pp. 403-431.
- Mayo, Edith P. "Exhibiting Politics." Museum News. September/October 1992, pp. 50-68.
- Postman, Neil. "Museum as Dialogue." Museum News. September/October 1990. pp. 55-58.
- Rice, Danielle. "Modern Art: Making People Mad." Museum News. May/June 1997, pp. 53-58.
- Stein, Judith. "Sins of Omission." Art in America, October 1993, pp. 110-114.
- Trachtenberg, Alan. "Contesting the West," Art in America, September 1991, pp. 118-123, 152.
- Wallace, Mike. "The Battle of the Enola Gay." Museum News, July/August 1995, p. 40-62.
- Weil, Stephen E. Rethinking the Museum and Other Meditations. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990.
- Willwerth, James. "A Museum of Hate," Time. February 15, 1993, pp. 54-55.