Memory and the Work of Art
What does history look like? In school, we learn to conceive of time in a linear fashion, using dates as coordinates to locate events and meaning in the past. “Cartographies of Time,” an exhibition at...
View ArticleNYMASA Annual Conference to Focus on Questions of Memory
The New York Metro American Studies Association’s annual one day conference, Memory, will be held November 5, 2011 at Parsons, the New School for Design. Morning sessions begin at 9:00 and include...
View ArticleHumanities Council of Washington D.C. Offers Commemoration and Remembrance...
From the Humanities Council of Washington D.C. Beginning this year, in partnership with the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Council will offer 5 grants of $2000 each to organizations and...
View Article2014 Fredric M. Miller Lecture in Public History
A Hunger for Memory and Thirst for Justice: Nourishing Consciousness and Awakening Imagination Event flyer Miller Invite – Description By telling stories gathered along a personal and professional...
View ArticleExhibit: Investigating Where We Live
From the National Building Museum: In 1996 the National Building Museum instituted Investigating Where we Live, a program bringing together middle and high school students from Washington D.C....
View ArticleThe Guns of August and The Dogs of War: Remembering and Forgetting America’s...
This display of period propaganda posters at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City is one of many rooms portraying Americans experiences in the Great War. Moreover, fully half the museum...
View ArticleHome Before The Leaves Fall
28th Division parading down Chestnut Street, photograph, circa 1917, Philadelphia War Photograph Committee collection [V03] The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.“Home Before the Leaves Fall: The...
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