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...
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...
