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The Power and Responsibility of American Girl Dolls

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Sara Georgini

March 29, 2021

#USIH2021 Resource: Guide to Analyzing Material and Visual Culture Sources

While material and visual culture are two separate fields, methodologies, and sources bases, they share several steps in their analytical processes. As such, we highlight these similarities in this guide, Read more

Sara Georgini

January 19, 2021

#USIH2021 Teaching Intellectual History Workshop: Beyond the Text

I don’t consider myself to be an intellectual historian. Probably some of you reading this would not identify yourselves as such, either. That’s in part because I (and maybe you) Read more

Rebecca Brenner Graham

May 27, 2019

“All Work, No Pay”: Smithsonian Exhibit Presents Women’s Labor History Through Clothing

Memorial Day weekend brings tourists from across the country to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Desire for air conditioning, a bathroom, or water entice even more visitors from Read more

Sara Georgini

May 24, 2019

Walking on Water

Born in Boston as the Depression waned, the unique, hollowed-out globe room of the Mapparium mirrored the innovative spirit of Christian Scientists’ theological worldview. Spiritually and physically, Christian Scientists had Read more

Sara Georgini

May 10, 2019

Making the Mapparium

It may be the best-read map in Boston, and the least understood artifact of modern religion. In early 1933, with his prestigious commission for the new Christian Science Publishing Society Read more

Sara Georgini

May 29, 2017

‘Made for the Defence of Liberty’

Try to tell the story of America’s drive for liberty from two battered silver teaspoons. Toggle between an eight-year-old’s question about New England’s colonial slaves, and a veteran teacher’s query Read more