A Life Well Lived
Last week Elizabeth “Liz” Hunt Alston, a friend, tripped on a sidewalk in Charleston, hit her head, went to the hospital, was fine for a few days, and suddenly died of a brain hemorrhage. Here’s my letter-to-the-editor in the Post and Courier, Feb. 24....
History Leadership Institute
The 2018 AASLH History Leadership Institute Sunday, October 28 through Saturday, November 17, at the Indiana Historical Society How do you help professionals in historical organizations reflect on the right questions they should be asking both of...
What They Left Behind
“Museums Honor Victims of Tragedies by Preserving Memorials” NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, March 24, 2018 A few weeks back, I was contacted by NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt—they were planning a piece on how museums are honoring the...
“Archiving Grief”
How will future historians label the time we now live in? After the Pulse Nightclub shootings in June of 2016, I reached out to Pam Schwartz, chief curator at the Orange County Regional History Center in Orlando, FL, who I knew would be spearheading the...About Us
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