My birthday is coming up later this month. I think some presents are in order! Politicians like to say they cannot be bought. But this weekend, here amid the rolling.
The children of Martin Luther King care about one thing: money. That's why the new African-American history museum at the Smithsonian has no important artifacts from King. When the museum.
When I lived in Texas, I kept wondering if I should go to the Texas Prison Museum in Huntsville. It was both horrifying and fascinating at the same time. Why.
Museums are inherently elite spaces. This is not a good thing. They usually cost money to enter. They may not actually require specific knowledge to enjoy them, but like drinking.
A central piece of the rhetoric about taking the Confederate flag down from state property and official state symbols is that "it belongs in a museum." Actually it doesn't belong.
I visited the Smithsonian U.S. history museum last week and was amazed at how corporate-controlled it has now become. I am working on a larger article on this topic that.
They say that Orange County is home to the Happiest Place on Earth. For most people, that's Disneyland. For a cynical left-wing historian, it is the Nixon Library. When I.
Now this is my kind of history: What did Paris smell like in the mid-18th century? Try skunked red wine, wet cats, and gingivitis-tinged sputum, all bubbling in an open.
