As we end the semester, @kenfinkel has posed us a biiiiiiig question. This is in addition to the lingering question of where exactly we want our grant to go, but might offer us a way to think about that

This week our class (see this post for more context!) read the 2005 report, A PUBLIC TRUST AT RISK: The Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America’s Collections (hereafter "HHI"). The

In my last post I observed that ethics codes for museum environments don't chart a clear path for cultural institutions to keep themselves above the fray of a market economy. This guy knows all about having

In our ongoing engagement with what non-profit organizations are and what they could be, our class has arrived at the concept of public trust, especially as juxtaposed with the market economy. @jfeagan

I've been away from Steemit for a little while, focusing on cranking out the last bit of my M.A. thesis, but I'm back! In the meantime, we were asked to think about how cultural institutions pivot, and

After a brief hiatus (Spring Break), we @phillyhistory students are back Steeming ahead. This week, we are discussing the funding ideas we proposed (Part 1 and Part 2) and blogging about the late '90s

Yesterday, I wrote about the gaps I see in Philadelphia's history system. Today I give you, the funders, a mock Letter of Intent for a project that could meet some of those needs. It is a version of an

This week our class is describing needs we see in Philadelphia and proposing methods for the cultural sector to meet them. My classmates have already written eloquently about a variety of needs, from

In the last few years, Americans have had a lot of conversations about monuments. I've heard people on buses and in restaurants trying to tease apart the legacies of statues--intended to last forever--which

This week, @kenfinkel posed this question to the @phillyhistory group: "When it comes to interpreting, preserving, presenting the past, what are the pros and cons of big, mid-sized, and small

This post is part of the Philadelphia History Initiative (@phillyhistory), in which we are blogging about 1918 in order to raise capital to invest in the cultural sector of Philadelphia in some capacity.

This post is part of the Philadelphia History Initiative (@phillyhistory). This week our class took stock of the experiment so far and continued posing questions about the financial future of the cultural

The Philadelphia History Initiative (@phillyhistory) has had a bunch of us exploring the events of 1918. Today I turn to what didn't happen that year: thirteen days in February. Or at least they didn't

This post is part of the Philadelphia History Initiative (@phillyhistory). This week our class is considering where we would invest in the cultural sector, what problems we would tackle, and what impact

On January 12, 1918, Horace Thompson Carpenter was fired. For two years he had been the superintendent of Independence Hall, accepting the annual salary of $800 (worth around $12,000—just below the poverty

The Colonial Revival Looking through the advertisements in the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1918, I kept noticing items described as "Colonial." From "Colonial Water Tumblers" to a

"A coming realization" In the summer of 1918, James Lynn Barnard and Jessie Campbell Evans sat down to compose the preface of their book, Citizenship in Philadelphia.[1] In three hundred and

"Camp 1st Casual Btn. Ft. Riley Sept. 16, '18 Dear Friend: Received your letter of the 10th inst. and with a little delay I answer. Unless a man is isolated from this civilized world of ours, he cannot

Hi folks! My name is Ted Maust and I'm getting an M.A. in public history from Temple University. On the water with classmates from Studies in American Material Culture, Fall 2017. Photo by Charlie Hersh