I've expressed my reservations before about the idea of a memorial for Dwight Eisenhower on the National Mall and scoffed at the protests by his granddaughters that part of the Gehry-designed memorial would dare to depict the great man as an average boy growing up...
public history
The New York Times' Disunion series continues to be absolutely fantastic, even if it doesn't get the publicity it did when the series started. And I've been reading Kevin Levin's.
So it seems that Frank Gehry is designing a memorial for Dwight Eisenhower on the National Mall. Eisenhower's family is angry because, gasp, one of the scenes shows Dewey as.
I was fortunate enough to visit the reopened New York Historical Society just before the holidays. It's pretty impressive. I've visited twice before, once when the old building was partially open and once for a major exhibit during the building's renovation with the exhibition housed...
I am intrigued by Matthew Frye Jacobson's project to create a modern archive by collecting materials and interviewing people about present-day events. Here's a write-up about it. Jacobson, most noted.
I recently visited the Torn in Two exhibit at the Boston Public Library. Using maps at the primary storyteller, this exhibit told the story of the Civil War. Running until.
As will become even clearer over time as I continue to write here, I can be pretty obsessive about things. One of those things is museums. Museums really affect me in strong ways--I often either love or hate what I see and get riled up...