Houses in the Mail…Within These Walls at the Smithsonian
Working at a historic house museum presents its own set of challenges, developing an exhibition with a historic house as the key artifact [...]
Military Artifact Identification – Foreign & Domestic
Knowing what the artifact is essential to everything your institution does with that artifact. Without a correct identification how can one accession, catalog [...]
Bring the Boy to the Farm…
Firestone Farm is the largest living history site in Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan. It is the boyhood home of Harvey Firestone, the eventual [...]
Children Who Visit Museums Have Higher Achievement in Reading, Math, and Science
The headline seems so logical to those of us in the history field. "Well, duh!" I thought when the blog came across the [...]