Archive
- July 9th : Teaching curatorial work and developing an exhibition, at the same time (Education, Exhibits, Little Compton Historical Society, Museums, Public humanities)
- December 7th : Short videos on collections (Collections, Collections management systems, Digital humanities, Public humanities)
- June 5th : Little Compton Landscape Stories (Exhibits, Little Compton Historical Society, Museums, Uncategorized)
- June 19th : Open Access Articles! or, what happens to old articles (Digital humanities, Research, Technology)
- August 20th : Leave the Durham memorial on the ground (Creative placemaking, historic preservation, Museums, Public humanities)
- August 7th : Announcing a new timeline of museum history (Digital humanities, History of Museums, Inside the Lost Museum book, Museums)
- January 26th : I asked students to write the syllabus. You won’t believe what happened next. (AMST2650, Public humanities, teaching)
- November 6th : What might historic preservation learn from museums? (historic preservation, history, Museums, presentation, Public humanities)
- April 3rd : “Collecting and Collections” course & stamp exhibit (Curation, Exhibits, History of Museums, Museums, Public humanities, teaching)
- March 13th : Design Objects in Museums (Exhibits, History of Museums, Museums, Technology, Uncategorized)
- February 15th : The Whaling Museum’s Collections Development Plan, done! (Collections, featured, Museums)
- January 30th : Connecting with The Wright Brothers (History of Technology, presentation, Programs, Public humanities, Technology)
- November 29th : Considering the 9/11 Memorial Museum: One visit, three ways (AMST2650, Criticism, Exhibits, Museums, Public humanities)
- October 31st : A class about collections (Collections, Curation, Education, Exhibits, Museums, teaching)
- September 27th : The dark ride (on search) (Collections, Collections management systems, Digital humanities, Museums, Public humanities)
- September 26th : The Find-me-another machine (On Search) (Collections, Collections management systems, featured, Museums)
- September 3rd : Trajectory [a welcome to the new class of public humanities students] 2015] (AMST2650, Public humanities, teaching)
- August 19th : Workshop with the NY Humanities Council Public Humanities Fellows (Public humanities, teaching)
- July 25th : Course for the fall: Introduction to Public Humanities (AMST2650, Public humanities, teaching)
- April 12th : “The Curator Rules” (Collections, Curation, Exhibits, featured, History of Museums, Museums)
- February 22nd : History of museum exhibitions; a Pinterest experiment (Digital humanities, Exhibits, History of Museums, Museums)
- January 14th : Writing about the past, thinking about the future: National Museum of American History (Collections, History of Museums, Museums, Public humanities)
- December 11th : Joint Statement from Museum Bloggers and Colleagues on Ferguson and related events (Museums, Public humanities)
- November 14th : Public and Digital Humanities (Digital humanities, History of Museums, presentation, Public humanities)
- November 10th : Collecting the History of Technology at the National Museum of American History (Collections, Exhibits, History of Museums, Museums, Technology)
- October 28th : My talk at Mt. Holyoke: Looking Back and Looking Ahead (Museums, presentation, Public humanities, teaching)
- August 22nd : Museumbots: An Appreciation (Collections, Digital humanities, History of Museums, Museums)
- July 4th : Beautiful Data (Digital humanities, History of Museums, Museums, Public humanities, Research, Technology)
- June 5th : Applied? Translational? Open? Digital? Public? New models for the humanities (Digital humanities, Public humanities)
- May 28th : Call for Papers: Lost Museums Colloquium (Collections, History of Museums, Museums, Programs)
- May 22nd : The presence of the past: Landscapes of history and tradition at Brown University (Public humanities)
- March 12th : Jenks Society for Lost Museums (Education, History of Museums, Museums, Public humanities)
- March 7th : 50 Years of Collecting at the National Museum of American History (History of Museums, Museums)
- February 15th : “An olla podrida of queer things pining away its sweetness in the desert air of the Brooklyn Navy Yard” (History of Museums, Museums, Research)
- December 23rd : Changing the Ph.D. for a Changing Job Market (Education, Management, Public humanities, teaching)
- November 2nd : Arts and humanities analytics (Creative placemaking, Digital humanities, Public humanities)
- October 10th : 21st-Century History of Technology: Fashioning a Usable Past (Collections, History of Technology, Technology)
- September 30th : The Humanities: Public, Open, Applied & Engaged (Digital humanities, Public humanities)
- August 31st : History museums, learning from history (History of Museums, Management, Museums, Public humanities)
- January 4th : Creative Providence: Past, Present and Future. An NEH Grant Proposal. (Museums, Public humanities, Technology)
- January 1st : Should you get a Ph.D to work in a history museum? – Part 3: How might we make it useful? (Uncategorized)
- January 1st : Should you get a Ph.D to work in a history museum? – Part 2: Is it useful for the job? (Education, Public humanities, teaching, Uncategorized)
- January 1st : Should you get a Ph.D to work in a history museum? – Part 1 (Education, Museums, Public humanities)
- October 21st : Building a Professional Persona Online (Digital humanities, Public humanities, teaching)
- October 14th : Digital Public Humanities (and an out-of-body experience) (Digital humanities, Public humanities, teaching)
- September 3rd : Sources for Teaching Public History: Michel Rolph Trouillot’s Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) (Education, Public humanities, teaching)
- July 1st : In response to a state humanities council question: What are the digital humanities, and what should we do about them? (Digital humanities, Public humanities)
- May 28th : “Teaching and Learning with Art and Artifact” presentation (CultureLab, Education, Exhibits)
- January 20th : Haffenreffer Museum article in university museums volume, forthcoming (Uncategorized)
- September 3rd : Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum (Uncategorized)
- September 3rd : New York, New York: “Transformed By The Light: The New York Night” at the Museum of the City of New York (Uncategorized)