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George Washington Wintered Here: Living with History at Morristown National Historical Park

George Washington related public history has long been a cottage industry in the United States, from his birthplace in Virginia to the cities in which he stayed during the Revolution such as Valley Forge and Morristown, where I recently spent a day taking in the eighteenth century living history weekend displays of apple pressing and hops harvesting. …

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Levi Fox

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Free workshop to focus on living history

From H-NJ: The New Jersey Living History Advisory Council invites members of non-profit historical organizations interested in living history, to attend a […]

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Mandi Magnuson-Hung

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Thoughts on Thanksgiving

Did you know that turkeys have a field vision of about 270 degrees, or that they fly between 50-55 miles […]

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Emily Monty

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Don't Be Hatin'

Hate. It ends up encompassing a spectrum of negative feelings; from annoyance (like when my cat Diderot upsets the kitchen trash […]

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Heidi Campbell-Shoaf

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Public Humanities Across the U.S.

Last month the federal/state partnership staff of the National Endowment for the Humanities posted a piece titled “56 Ways to […]

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Emily Monty

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What a strange power there is in clothing. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer

The month of September was a blur. Here in the north-central part of Maryland, we were consumed by Civil War […]

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Heidi Campbell-Shoaf

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The Care and Feeding of Living History Practitioners

Some colleagues and I were talking the other day about things they don’t teach you in museum studies/public history class. […]

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