M. J. Rymsza-Pawlowska’s History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s tracks the changing ways in which history is presented to consumers…
M. J. Rymsza-Pawlowska’s History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s tracks the changing ways in which history is presented to consumers…
Andrea Burns’ From Storefront to Monument encapsulates the history of Black museums and their relation to public history. Burns reveals that there are three “phases”…
Polly McKenna-Cress and Janet Kamien’s Creating Exhibitions is quite literally a manual on the best practices towards creating an exhibit. Each chapter delves into specifics…
The National Museum of the American Indian
Leon Fink’s article When Community Comes Home to Roost: The Southern Milltown as Lost Cause is a great starting point for this week. It draws…
Carolyn Kitch’s book Pennsylvania in Public Memory: Reclaiming the Industrial Past delves into the work of heritage sites and how their work in Pennsylvania often…
This week in class we were asked to read Hannah Hethmon’s Your Museum Needs a Podcast. It is quite literally a guide to creating a…
Hello everyone! My name is Lauren Kennedy, I am starting this blog primarily to engage professionally with the field of Public History, which includes posting…