George Washington related public history has long been a cottage industry in the United States, from his birthplace in Virginia to the cities in which he stayed during the Revolution such as Valley Forge and Morristown, where I recently spent a day taking in the eighteenth century living history weekend displays of apple pressing and hops harvesting. …
From H-NJ: The New Jersey Living History Advisory Council invites members of non-profit historical organizations interested in living history, to attend a […]
Did you know that turkeys have a field vision of about 270 degrees, or that they fly between 50-55 miles […]
Hate. It ends up encompassing a spectrum of negative feelings; from annoyance (like when my cat Diderot upsets the kitchen trash […]
Last month the federal/state partnership staff of the National Endowment for the Humanities posted a piece titled “56 Ways to […]
The month of September was a blur. Here in the north-central part of Maryland, we were consumed by Civil War […]
Some colleagues and I were talking the other day about things they don’t teach you in museum studies/public history class. […]