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 &...
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,...
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...
On Signage
Signs are important. They let you know where the fire exit is or, more importantly, the location of the nearest bathroom. They tell you...
