Author: José Boon In ‘Technology becomes the object’, the American anthropologist Gwyneira Isaac discusses the role of electronic media at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). The main question is to what extent new technology can help in transferring a message. Besides the fact that the history of American Indians is a […]
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Paul Knevel on NCPH blog
MA Coordinator Paul Knevel responds to Jerome de Groot’s essay in the new issue of The Public Historian on the National Council on Public History online forum, Public History Commons: “In our aim to understand the practice and consequences of genealogy and family history, public historians should not only write about the practitioners in the […]