by Elizabeth Thomsen | Apr 10, 2008 | The Public Humanist
It’s spring! And if that makes you think about baseball, perhaps you’d be interested in seeing a photograph of the Peabody baseball team in 1899. Or if you’re more interested in gardening, you might want to check out the tulips at the Thayer Estate...
by Advocate Staff | Apr 14, 2008 | The Public Humanist
I’m faced with a dilemma right now. For the past few weeks, my “Masculinity and its Discontents” co-blogger Jamie and I have been writing, once a week, at GlennSacks.com, which is one of the focal points of the relatively small, but perhaps growing,...
by Kate Navarra Thibodeau | Apr 17, 2008 | The Public Humanist
As I travel back from a wonderful and successful annual meeting of the National Council on Public History, I think back to what I have learned about historical exhibitions in the past six years. There are certain expectations we in the public history and museum field...
by Wen-ti Tsen | Apr 22, 2008 | The Public Humanist
In Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, there was a small Vermeer painting, of a woman at the harpsichord, and another, standing, silently singing, and a man in the center, maybe a lutenist, with his back to us. The daylight filters in from the left. A...
by Laurie Kahn | Apr 28, 2008 | The Public Humanist
In my opinion, the most interesting work done by historians in the last fifty years has been the ambitious detective work required to tell history “from the bottom up” as well as “from the top down.” Social historians believe (and I...
