Between Justice and History: This Year's Fredric M. Miller Memorial Lecture
This month we feature a slightly edited version of the Fredric M. Miller Memorial Lecture delivered by MARCH founding director […]
civic engagement
Recession Era Buffalo: Connecting People, Place, and Past
“The revolution will not be tweeted.” Or, so read the tagline on a recent Malcolm Gladwell article in The New […]
The Civic Museum
The 18th Annual History Issues Convention was held at the New Jersey State Museum last month; the theme was “The New Model for History Institutions: How to Become an Indispensable Community Resource for Schools and the Public.” The keynote speaker, David W. Young, Executive Director of Cliveden in Philadelphia, spoke about how a Revolutionary-era historic house museum in Germantown transformed itself into a site of active community engagement, a place where museum staff and visitors work together to interpret the site in the context of 20th century history.