Remembrance of Things Present: The Invention of the Time Capsule

Review of: Remembrance of Things Present: The Invention of the Time Capsule, by Nick Yablon

Co-Occurrence of Intimate Partner Violence and Opioid Use in North Carolina: A County-Level Analysis

This paper examines the relationship between assault against women and death from unintentional opioid overdose across counties in North Carolina between the years 2010 and 2015. This analysis uses opioid overdose death data as well as assaults against women in North Carolina to examine co-occurrence across counties.Using county and year fixed-effects, I found a positive relationship between assault against women and opioid overdose death in non-rural counties and a slightly negative relationship in rural counties. This is finding may be due to measurement error created by low levels of assault reporting in some counties over time. Based on findings of the geographical trends of co-occurring overdose and assault against women as well as the limitations of this analysis, this paper makes recommendations for future research and policy initiatives for addressing intimate partner violence in the context of the opioid epidemic in North Carolina.Bachelor of Art

Students Connect with History ‘Insiders.

Twenty-three-year-old Lisa Zevorich came to graduate school with a talent for historical research—seeking out documents, weighing interpretations, crafting arguments. This semester she has been honing a new skill: listening. Zevorich and seven classmates in UNCG’s Museum Studies program conducted twenty-five interviews with seniors at the Greensboro Senior Center. Every week students came downtown to the Center to sit with seniors and hear stories about the events of their lifetimes—from the moon landing to their favorite Thanksgiving meal to their reflections on whether the dishwasher represents technological progress or just a frill for the lazy

Small Stories in the Big Picture: Open House: If These Walls Could Talk.

When is a small story a big story? At the beginning of 2001, the Minnesota Historical Society set out on a five-year-long quest to find out. The journey culminated this January in the opening of a major new exhibition at the Minnesota History Center, “Open House: If These Walls Could Talk.” The exhibit tells the story of a single, ordinary house on St. Paul’s gritty East Side and all the people who made that house home—from the German immigrants who built it in 1888 through the Italians, African Americans and now Hmong who have followed: one house, fifty families, 118 years

Art, History, and Science Museums: A Cross-Cultural Conversation.

The past century has witnessed the rise of distinct museums for art, history, and science. That trend has accelerated in the past twenty-five years with the dramatic expansion of science museums and the increasingly specialized museology of art and public history institutions. This session, designed as a conversation among leaders with experience in each of these fields, addressed what each of these fields might learn from each other, with an eye towards how tomorrow's museums might benefit from such cross- pollinations. The participants focused on mission, exhibitions, and interpretation, while considering the impact that these two core activities have on other aspects of the museum, such as audience development and strategic planning

Selling Tradition: Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk, 1930-1940, by Jane Becker

It is tempting to say that in Selling Tradition: Appa- lachia and the Construction of an American Folk, 930-1940 Jane Becker gives us a glimpse of an- other world-the Appalachian Mountains in the era of the Great Depression, when mountaineers pursued the craft traditions that to this day shape our conception of them. This image, however, runs counter to the central point of Becker's eye- opening book: mountaineers were not "another world" at all; they (and the crafts they produced) were very much influenced by northern industri- alists, designers, promoters, and social workers who defined and reshaped Appalachian "tradi- tion." Perhaps, then, we see the collision of two worlds-the culture of the mountaineers with that of the outsiders who "discovered" and pro- moted them? No, Becker insists. By the 1930s out- side influences had been infiltrating Appalachian culture for more than half a century. The Appala- chians and modern, industrial America were in- terconnected and cross-cut worlds, and the mountaineers themselves were hardly passive agents in the popular promotion of their culture

Hearing Voices in Open House: If These Walls Could Talk.

Open House: If These Walls Could Talk tells probably the smallest story ever told at the Minnesota Historical Society (MHS). It focuses on a single, ordinary house on St. Paul's gritty East Side and the people who made that house home—from the German immigrants who built it in 1888 through the Italians, African Americans, and now Hmong who have followed: one house, fifty families, 118 years. Its scope is small, but the exhibit, which opened in 2006 at the Minnesota History Center, from the start embraced big possibilities—to define a new approach to storytelling in a gallery; to extend the boundaries of "exhibit" beyond the building's walls; to design a gallery that feels like a real place, one completely open to visitor discovery; and to inspire visitors to take on the mantle of historian. In the end, though, the most elaborate exhibit project ever undertaken at MHS demonstrates the power of a simple message: sometimes the smallest voices speak most forcefully of all

Local Lessons in Letting Go.

Near twenty years ago, I arrived in Appleton, bright-eyed, to be curator at the Outagamie County Historical Society. Brimming with excitement about my first day at my first real museum job, I stepped into...chaos. The museum had been without a curator for a little while and in the interim, the staff had had an idea that, in retrospect, looks years ahead of its time: make the community the curators! There would be an exhibit about holiday celebrations in the Fox Valley and different ethnic groups would each take charge of showcasing their own traditions

Are We There Yet? Children, History, and the Power of Place

History is about perspective, looking back to recognize that nothing under the sun is truly new. History is about empathy, seeing the humanity in distant figures and bringing their experiences to life. History is about context, recognizing that our actions are shaped by systems of power and constraint bigger than any single individua