In today’s Muster, JCWE Book Review Editor Megan Bever has a conversation with Shae Smith Cox, Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University about her book, The Fabric of Civil War Society: Uniforms, Badges, and Flags, 1859-1939 (LSU Press, 2024).| The Journal of the Civil War Era
By Esther Martin People love Stuff. They’ve always loved Stuff. For hundreds of years, humanity has made a practice of collecting the Stuff they love. These collections carry alternative implications, showcased and flaunted to establish both the status and identity of the owner. The act of collecting is easy to dismiss as a type of overconsumption, but it is deeply tied to a person’s need to establish their sense of self, and to identify where they fit into the social spectrum. Collectors...| The Recipes Project
As an anthropologist, Victor Buchli has one foot in the Neolithic past and another in the space-faring future. A professor of material […] The post Victor Buchli on Life in Low-Earth Orbit appeared first on Social Science Space.| Social Science Space
In today’s Muster, Associate Editor Robert Bland discusses the JCWE’s June special issue on material culture with guest editors Joan E. Cashin and Alaina E. Roberts. Dr. Cashin is a professor of history at Ohio State University and author of War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War (2018) … Read More Read More| The Journal of the Civil War Era
though in an idyllic setting, I was poised above a mass grave. The post The Shamrock and the Sham appeared first on CONTINGENT.| CONTINGENT
myths fed back as stereotypes and strawmen to divine some boundary for acceptability| CONTINGENT
This article presents a collective object biography and discussion of the Cottingley Fairy artefacts – cameras, photographs, watercolour sketches and print materials – held at the National Science and Media Museum. The post Power at play in paranormal history appeared first on Science Museum Group Journal.| Articles Archive - Science Museum Group Journal
Professor Elizabeth Edwards, Dr Costanza Caraffa, and Dr Ruth Quinn speak about photographic archival practice and the archive as a generative place.| Science Museum Group Journal
To the Edge of Time, co-curated by Hannah Redler-Hawes and Thomas Hertog, explored the Big Bang discovery story and the future of time through the science of Georges Lemaître, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking and modern and contemporary artworks. This paper describes the thinking and development process behind the exhibition.| Science Museum Group Journal
Playbills, programs, tickets: such physical documents are no longer part of seeing a show on Broadway. Does it matter?| Public Books
Hey Folks! Make sure to check out Stephanie's new post over on Active History, looking at her family history and hooked rugs. It's fantastic! Here's a preview: When my sister and I imagined ourselves getting married as kids, we imagined our Mémére being there, just as she had been for all our moments, big and| Unwritten Histories