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VSA: Why Teachers Visit Historic Sites
The April 2012 (15:1) issue of Visitor Studies, the semi-annual journal of the Visitor Studies Association, just arrived and it includes, “Motivating Participation in National Park Service...
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Challenges and Opportunities Facing Historic Sites and House Museums
This fall I’ll be teaching the historic site and house museum interpretation class in the Museum Studies Program at George Washington University. Department Chair Kym Rice graciously offered me this...
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Highlights from the Latest Journal of Travel Research
I doubt many people read the Journal of Travel Research (yes, there are such things!) but I’ve been referring to it in preparation for a presentation at the Historic House Museum Consortium of...
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A Second Helping of Local History from A to Z
Local history lovers, rejoice–the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Local History has just been published by AltaMira Press. Under revision for the past few years by editors Carol Kammen and Amy...
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History News looks at Historical Interpretation
History News, Autumn 2012 The autumn 2012 issue of History News arrived in my mailbox a couple weeks ago and its four feature articles on interpretation that will be of interest to historic sites:...
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History News reprises Salt Lake City meeting and more
History News, Winter 2013 The Winter 2013 issue of History News, the quarterly magazine of the American Association for State and Local History, just hit my desk and focuses on the annual meeting held...
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Managing Timelines for Research and Interpretation
Aeon Timeline by Scribblecode. If you’ve ever been involved in researching or interpreting an historic site, you’ve no doubt assembled a timeline to keep track of events and understand connections...
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History News for Spring 2013 Arrives
History News, Spring 2013 It’s mid-June and the spring 2013 issue of History News just arrived. If you’re wondering why it’s late, it’s my fault. Katherine Kane and Bob Beatty invited me to write an...
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Interpreting Historic Sites: a GWU version
This fall I’m teaching a graduate-level class on interpreting historic sites and house museums at George Washington University, which has one of the best museum studies programs in the nation (I can’t...
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AASLH Award Winners
Lee Wright at the History List created a Slideshare presentation of the 87 history projects that will be receiving awards today from the American Association for State and Local History at their...
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Nancy Duarte’s “Resonate” Free on iPad
A multi-touch version of Resonate is available free on iPad. Nancy Duarte is one of the leading producers of presentations, including the Academy Award-winning film, “An Inconvenient Truth” with Al...
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Interpreting African American History at Your Site or Museum?
Every day Drayton Hall offers “Connections,” a 45-minute program that traces the story of Africans from Africa to the new world and into the 20th century. If you’ve been involved with the planning,...
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Video: David McCullough’s 5 Lessons Every High School Student Show Know
In this 5:17 video, author David McCullough shares the five most important ideas high school students should learn before graduating (and it’s not memorizing dates and quotations). This was recorded...
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Is Planning Giving You the Creeps?
This afternoon at the annual meeting of the American Alliance of Museums in Seattle, Washington, I’ll be part of “Strategic Planning Made Simple,” a panel session discussing approaches to designing and...
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A Bibliography on Interpreting African American History and Culture
As many of you know, I’m assembling an anthology on the interpretation of African American history and culture at historic sites and in history museums, expected to be published by Rowman and...
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Recent Articles on Historic Sites You May Have Missed
Knowing that most people working at historic sites don’t have access to an academic library, I thought I’d share a few articles around some major topics that caught my eye. This is not a thorough...
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Changing Attitudes About History one Grizzly at a Time
Click to view slideshow. Politics and Prose, the famous independent bookstore in Washington DC, hosted a booksigning for Tim Grove, chief of museum learning at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum,...
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Brown University and National Trust Provide Recommendations for Historic...
The financial sustainability and social relevance of historic house museums continue to intrigue scholars, preservationists, organizations, and even pundits on National Public Radio (I was recently...
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Why History Matters is Foundational to Historic Site Interpretation
Historic Site Interpretation Class, Fall 2014, Museum Studies Program, George Washington University. My annual fall class on interpreting historic sites and house museums started yesterday at George...
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At the press: Interpreting African American History and Culture
My book, Interpreting African American History and Culture at Museums and Historic Sites is now at the press and will be available in December from Rowman and Littlefield. I’ve been assembling it for...
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