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Making a Museum: Journey from a “Cool Project” to a Museum defined by Dynamic Preservation

This blog is by Sam McKelvey, M.A. in History 2010. As I sit in my office overlooking the historic fields of Menokin in Virginia’s Northern Neck, my mind wanders.  It’s been a long road, full of sharp turns leading from graduation day at VCU in 2010, when I earned an MA in History, to where […]

What IS Public History

This blog is by John Kneebone, Ph.D., professor emeritus, VCU history department. I always began my Public History classes with the hard question, What IS Public History? It is tempting to join the National Council for Public History’s website in throwing up my hands and quoting the Justice of the US Supreme Court who defined obscenity by […]

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