My stuff is moving
The content of this blog is moving to tedmaust.com. Though it will look very different, it'll all still be there. Thanks to you who have...
Things I wrote in 2016
A new year presents an opportunity to take stock of my achievements in school and online over the last year. In April, I began this blog...
The Tangles of Oral History
T: On the—you know, pain scale—is it one to ten? D: Yeah T: What level of pain do you need to experience before you go to the hospital?...
Utilizing shared authority
Letting Go?: Sharing Historical Authority in a User-Generated World is a collection of essays published by the Pew Center for Arts &...
12 Weeks Down: Thanks are in Order
It's Thanksgiving, and there is a brief lull in what has been an overwhelming semester. I wanted to take a moment to thank a bunch of...
Political Museums, Exhibits that Provoke
Our readings for Managing History this week continue the trend of considering the political dimensions of public history. While the...
Methods and Mandates in Historical Activism
In the Historical Methods class I'm taking this semester, I've been struggling to frame a topic for my semester-end paper (which will be...
Sometimes you just need to read two books together
In class this week we discussed The Museum Educator's Manual: Educators Share Successful Techniques by Anna Johnson, Kimberly A. Huber,...
Bringing Historic House Museums to Life
In the process of working on a paper for my US History survey class, today I visited the Powel House, located in Philadelphia's Society...
The History of the United States is a story of Plunder
I was supposed to blog on the assigned readings for Managing History. Perhaps I will write about them later, but fate, as it does,...
