Archive
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What Difference Does Historical Perspective Make?
What historical perspective can offer to public conversations about care at the end of life.
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Militarizing Memory at International Boundary Marker #1
How memory and commemoration are built into the landscape of the U.S.–Mexico border.
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Journey to the Border Wall
A reflection, with Sarah Leavitt, on a journey to the U.S.–Mexico border and what its wall…
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Living Monuments: Artist Nina Rossi’s “Pedestal Takeover”
On Nina Rossi’s “Pedestal Takeover” and the questions monuments pose to their communities.
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Postcards from an Imagined Early America
How early America is pictured, staged, and remembered at the Porter-Phelps-Huntington House.
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U.S. Founders
How the founding generation is interpreted at museums and historic sites, and how to make it…
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Teaching History Communication: Early Results
Early results from teaching students to communicate history to public audiences.
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Navigating Distance
A reflection on an international symposium on the role of historians in public life, held in…
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Reconstructing the Absent Center: Looking for Betsy Ross
On reconstructing a life—Betsy Ross—from a thin documentary record.