The building was due to be demolished until a carpenter checked the attic. Among old socks and newspapers was a […]
Please Touch: 3D Technologies for Accessibility in Museums
In the fall of 2016, students and faculty from Coastal Carolina University attended the annual Reconstructive and Experimental Archaeology Conference […]
Exhibition Review: Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis
One hundred years after the 1918 flu epidemic, Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis opened at the Museum of the […]
Mothers of Monsters
I am looking at an infant boy suspended in a jar of liquid. The preservative fluid has kept the boy’s […]
History at Home in the Tenement Museum
Several times a day, several days a week, I stand with a group of strangers in the parlor of a […]
Pathology in Perspective: Wartime Specimen Collecting and the Case of Private Hurdis’ Skull
Rarely does a debate about the bones of soldiers collected during World War I enter into public consciousness. But in […]
A Day at the Smithsonian: Black History Takes Its Place on the National Mall
[gblockquote source=”Ida B. Wells”]The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.[/gblockquote] Like many historians, […]
