Museums and universities should work together to increase historical knowledge and disseminate it among a wider public. Both have much to gain, for their capabilities …
“Cataloging History” is a four-part series on the history and theory of museum and exhibition catalogs, focusing on the 1853 New York Crystal Palace. This …
Richard Rabinowitz is one of our best exhibition curators, and his two-part ‘‘Slavery in New York’’ at the New-York Historical Society is among the most …
This is an Author Manuscript of an entry published in the Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. The Version of Record citation: Lubar S. (2018) Heritage Museums …
New technologies pose new challenges for archivists not only because they change the material nature of archives, but also because they change ideas about information …
What effect does managerial structure have on technological style? In this paper I will examine the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to investigate that question.
In the 1830s and 1840s cities and towns throughout the United States looked to railroads to bring them prosperity. Yet decisions to build railroads were …
Technological representations, I argue, make it easier to bring technological actions under the control of authority. Thus, technological representations allow and encourage the situating of …
The place of industry, a quintessentially modem enterprise, is less certain in today's postmodern world. Are we in a postindustrial era? An epoch of de-industrialization? …
This case study examines the curatorial challenges of producing a very large exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History from 1999 to 2003. …
Inventors, the purchasers of patent rights, and the users of patented goods all have economic interests in the framing and interpretation of patent law. These …
In 1893, the Cataract Construction Company, after four years of deliberation, decided that the power generated by its turbines at Niagara Falls would be transmitted …
The "official" history of Silver Spring is well known. Local residents repeat the story of Francis Preston Blair's discovery of a spring flecked with mica …
