It's time for something a bit more light hearted than usual. So here's this great story about how a bunch of teenagers who don't care about some old man named Prince are curating a New Jersey museum exhibit about Prince. At a large gallery space...
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I'm preparing for my Civil War course this fall and so engaging in some of the recent literature over the summer. I'm presently reading Sarah Handley-Cousins' 2019 book, Bodies in.
I mentioned before about the ProPublica series to expose the nation's terrible history of displaying indigenous remains. Here's another fun entry! So when Dickson prepared his property to plant an.
In 1862, President Lincoln ordered the largest mass execution in American history, ending the Dakota War. This grotesque event gets even worse. At the end of the executions, the bodies were taken for burial. In Rochester, Minnesota, a doctor wanted a body for his sons,...
I can't wait to visit this new Victims of Communism Museum set up by former Trumpers to demonstrate to visitors the horrors of socialism. Trolling this whole enterprise will be.
While in the South on my music tour a couple of weeks ago, I ran into a bunch of random music museums that of course I had to stop at..
Everyone said in the 80s and 90s and 00s that public institutions should be run like a business. Now they are--with high priced leadership taking all the resources while cutting staff and making life worse for most of its workers. We see that at the...
King James Bible from the year 1617 is on display in the newly built Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, USA, 14 November 2017. Privately funded by the conservative.
This is just disgusting. And not surprising in a state that has moved hard right in recent years. On Monday, a traveling exhibit about gay history began a planned four-month.
Standing Bear Good news for those of us who follow the history of major Euro-American institutions looting objects from tribal peoples around the world. And more importantly, good news for the Ponca. A tomahawk once owned by Chief Standing Bear, a pioneering Native American civil...
I care very much about historical memory and the portrayal of the past in history museums. They have such great potential for telling real and interesting stories about the past.
I did want to mention before too much time passed that I visited the World War I Museum in Kansas City a couple of weeks ago. It's a very popular.