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,...
Drafting an Exhibit Label
I first posted this without any context. Below you can find the original drafts but I thought it made sense to nest the various...
Preservation and (Re)Development
Jewelers' Row in Philadelphia is likely on borrowed time. The historic district is perhaps the victim of being just one of many historic...
On the Division of Labor
This week's reading, Creating Exhibitions by Polly McKenna-Cress and Janet A. Kamien, picks up right where I left off: consensus...
On consensus
On the heels of reading Serrell, our class was introduced to an exhibit that did not spring from the same framework. Rather than defining...
