by Hannah Arnow
The exhibit is hard to miss. As you cross the threshold into Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy, MA a brightly painted image declaring, “Don’t look back… you’re not going that way” captures your eye. Vivid, …
Neighborhood Matters: An Outreach and Advocacy Project by Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
by Angela Lee
“Neighborhood Matters” is an outreach and advocacy project hosted by Northeastern University Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections (ASC). This lunch time series aims at promoting diversity and inclusion by organizing a free public event; its goal includes …
The Mount: Edith Wharton’s Autobiographical Home
by Christine Jacobson
In her 1893 short story, “The Fullness of Life,” Edith Wharton described a woman’s nature as a “great house full of rooms”:
…“...there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the
Meet David Kelliher, Director of Government Relations and Public Policy for the Minnesota Historical Society
by Lily Eisenthal
When the Minnesota Legislature is in session from January to May each year, David Kelliher’s laptop bag becomes his office. As the Director of Government Relations and Public Policy for the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS), he often …
Climate Conversations and Commitments at the Arnold Arboretum
by Lily Eisenthal
Early in the autumn of 2019, before the trees making up its extensive collection began changing colors, the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University offered a series of events and activities for Climate Preparedness Week. It was the …
Meet Dr. Learotha Williams, Associate Professor of African American and Public History at Tennessee State University, Founder of the North Nashville Heritage Project
by Alex Howard
“The North Nashville Heritage Project taught me that the old lady who fried chicken at the church was just as important as the lawyers who bailed the students who got arrested out of jail,” said Dr. Learotha …
Fruits in Decay: An exhibit from the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants
by Vanessa Formato
All these fruits are dying. Wisps of grey mold stretch out from the bottom of a sickly, shriveled strawberry. Plums blush an unnatural shade of teal. A pockmarked peach hangs from a branch, the bark discolored, its …
Historic Congressional Cemetery has Gone to the Dogs: How Dog Owners Saved a Historic Cemetery
by Mattie Clear
The Historic Congressional Cemetery has gone to the dogs, in all the best ways. Before the wonders of the Washingtonians and their ingenuity can be appreciated, one must know the story of this small, but important cemetery. …
The Rainbow Arcade at Schwules Museum
by Jonathan Fryerwood
The RAINBOW ARCADE exhibition hosted at the Schwules Museum in Berlin presented itself as the first major exhibition of queer content in video games. The event ran from December 2018 to May of this year. The project …
Saving Sheldon Jackson
How Alaskan advocacy gives the Sheldon Jackson Museum a fighting chance in the face of imminent peril
By Karen Trop
IN EARLY MARCH 2019, word spread across the state of Alaska that newly incumbent Governor Michael Dunleavy was trying …