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...
"Bring out your dead!"
Excuse my face-mask, the readings this week in each of my classes brought out my inner hypochondriac. I was reminded of the semester in...
Heritage, nostalgia, and "popular historymakers"
The readings for Managing History this week: The Presence of the Past by Roy Rosenzwieg and David Thelen, and Pennsylvania in Public...
Managing History
I've just begun graduate school and first impressions are mostly that it's a ton of reading. Which might have meant, but for a bit of...
Introducing AnabaptistHistorians.org!
Today a new collaborative blog launched! My good friend Joel Nofziger tapped a couple of historians* (who were all interested in studying...
Revisiting 'Partly Dave'
I'm working on a paper for my methods course and decided to revisit an old project. I realized that while I posted about it on a previous...
