September of 1918 was a fraught time in Philadelphia. Day after day, newspaper headlines carried a grim mixture of battle updates from the Great War, seemingly endless lists war casualties,...
Posted by | February 3, 2018
September of 1918 was a fraught time in Philadelphia. Day after day, newspaper headlines carried a grim mixture of battle updates from the Great War, seemingly endless lists war casualties,...
Posted by | February 1, 2018
Hi folks! Boy, 2017 was a humdinger, huh? You may notice that this site looks and behaves a little differently than before- and that my blog now has a name,...
Posted by | December 21, 2017
I often say that I'm lucky that I study the reformers of the Progressive Era (roughly 1890-1917) because they obsessively documented everything they ever saw or heard or thought. As...
Posted by | December 16, 2017
Archivists need an elevator pitch. They need to use it widely and often, and they should encourage the people who work within them (for example: historians, teachers, genealogists, and journalists)...
Posted by | December 10, 2017
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Because the calendar seems to have reset to 1899 (or a dystopian 2099?), last month the billionaire owner of a major online news syndicate shuttered the sites a week after...
Posted by | December 2, 2017
Plaque marking the site of S. Weir Mitchell's House on Walnut Street. Author's photo. I'm frequently shocked at how much of the world I've been missing out on when I...
Posted by | December 2, 2017
As part of an exercise in analyzing the physical surroundings of Philadelphia's Independence Seaport Museum, and more specifically the Cruiser Olympia, our Studies in Material Culture class took an hour...
Posted by | November 20, 2017
Rotunda of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Image via Blake Patterson. Lately, I've been doing a lot of reading about the origins of the "public museum"- a institution...
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