Insights Blog – Page 13 – ARCHIVES of Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities

This time of year is known for many things: holidays, the beginning of winter, and a barrage of end-of-year fundraising […]

The holiday season is upon us and in the museum/public history world it can be a challenging time. Do you […]

I started this blog with a post called “The Civic Museum.” Civic engagement – it’s the lifeblood of a new […]

It may be a bit early for New Year’s resolutions, but it’s never a bad idea to build time into […]

Last month I pondered the inequity between the support art organizations receive as compared to public history ones. I hope […]

Friends and co-workers looking to apply to graduate programs have come to me for advice and it has been satisfying […]

This time of year, the Fairmount neighborhood in Philadelphia is dominated by Eastern State Penitentiary. The prison is always a […]

This little video went viral recently: a one-year-old who apparently thinks that a print magazine is no more than a […]

Future-casting. There’s an activity often met with trepidation by historians. While history might inform the present, it isn’t a tool […]

These past three years or so, I have found that I’m using the phrases “in this economic climate” or “in […]