Revolutionary Little Compton: The Semiquincentary at a Local History Museum
It’s the summer of the semiquincentenial, and no self-respecting historical organization can escape without some acknowledgement of the American Revolution.
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history, Little Compton Historical Society, Uncategorized
“So near, yet, oh, how far”
I’m delighted that my article about the artists and writers who invented LIttle Compton as a summer destination has been
Digital humanities, history, Research, Uncategorized
AI and Historical Research
AI everything! For a month! That’s one way to describe the talk I gave for Brown’s AI and Humanities Research
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Historic House Museums, past and future
The slides from a talk for a group at the Rotch-Jones-Duff House in New Bedford, April 2021. A bit of
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Museums and Historic Interiors
In October I gave a talk about the history and future of historic interior spaces in museums. You can see
History of Technology, making, teaching, Technology, Uncategorized
Boatbuilding
In Fall semester 2019 I co-taught a course called Boatbuilding: Design, Making, and Culture, with Chris Bull and Shep Shapiro.
Little Compton Landscape Stories
Last year (summer 2019) the Little Compton Historical Society took on the topic of landscapes. (Each year the organization focuses
Exhibits, History of Museums, Museums, Technology, Uncategorized
Design Objects in Museums
[my talk to the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium, RISD, March 2015] The call for papers placed this conference in the context of RISD’s
Museums, Uncategorized
“Today’s Museum: Innovation, Change, and Challenge”
Here’s the presentation I gave at the Mathers Museum’s “Museums at the Crossroads: Local Knowledge, Global Encounters” workshop last week. More
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Teaching through projects
The public humanities program has two required courses, one theory and one method Projects count for about 50 percent of
