I have worked a couple of times with the Patricia Caron Crowley collection at the Women and Leadership Archives. Patricia was very active with charities and organizations in Chicago. During the 1968 and 1972 Presidential elections, Patricia and her husband Pat were heavily involved in the Eugene McCarthy campaign in Illinois. They held parties and…
As the years have gone by, the devices I’ve used to listen to music have changed. There was the Zen, the iPod Touch, the Dell computer, and more recently the iPhone and the MacBook. The one thing I always dread about new devices, besides transferring music, is the loss of my play counts. For some…
While browsing through the websites of some museums, I found myself wondering why the museum chose to exhibit certain collections. For the most part, many of the online exhibits were interesting and very relevant to the institution displaying them. However, especially at institutions with numerous collections, I was left to contemplate the issues a museum…
Pictures and web links distinguish many of the museum and archives tweets from the personal and business accounts I follow on Twitter. In 140 characters or less, public history institutions answer the question “What’s happening?” by teaching short history lessons, promoting events, showcasing special artifacts, and interacting with followers. The constant use of pictures draws my…
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