Museums and the Crisis of Education
Just a link here to a post I did for the Center for the Future of Museums blog, on the
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Contemporary collecting risky – but important
In which I come to the defense of Carlene Stephen’s blog post on collecting Stanley, and mostly disagree with Thomas
Digital humanities, Public humanities, teaching
Building a Professional Persona Online
Friday was Workshop Day at THATCampNE, and Ian Russell and I talked to about 30 folks about your online persona.
Digital humanities, Public humanities, teaching
Digital Public Humanities (and an out-of-body experience)
Here’s the talk I gave as the keynote for the New England American Studies Association. Or, rather, here are four
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Questions to ask when visiting a museum
Some of my students recently made a field trip to a local museum. These are some questions I suggested they
Criticism, Museums
Museum criticism, inside and out
(a response to the conversation at museumgeek.wordpress.com.) An important question, and you do a good job of getting at the
Collections, Exhibits
A rock’s story
I’ve been following closely (this may sound odd) the story of a rock. Not just any rock, and not just
Education, Public humanities, teaching
Sources for Teaching Public History: Michel Rolph Trouillot’s Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995)
(written for the History@Work blog and published there September 4, 2012) Michel Rolph Trouillot, historian, anthropologist, Haitian intellectual and University
Education, Public humanities
Welcome for new public humanities MA students
The next few days you’ll be meeting lots of people and getting lots of advice. Some of it will be
Digital humanities, Research
Scholarly Research and Writing in the Digital Age
It’s been a long time since I’ve done serious scholarly, research-intensive historical research and writing. I’ve spent the last twenty
