.... The relinquishments within the asylum’s records provoke emotion; as fragmentary evidence, they testify to trauma and demand the historian’s care. © 2024 by The Regents of the University of California and the National Council on Public History 2024 archives philanthropy material culture emotion caregiving...

... on the dangerous conditions in which miners worked in the mineshafts that ran beneath the communities of Virginia City and Gold Hill, Nevada. The material culture and conditions of mining, the article argues, were central to determining the community’s needs and the charitable efforts mounted to address them...

...Georgina Brewis This article considers the material culture of charity and philanthropy, arguing that objects and artifacts related to charitable causes and campaigns are important sources for research and teaching. Recent scholarship explores the challenges faced in preserving and enabling access...

...Diana Bell-Kite The exhibit QuiltSpeak: Uncovering Women’s Voices Through Quilts provides a model for using material culture research to unearth the experiences of marginalized historical actors. Each of the forty quilts from the North Carolina Museum of History’s permanent collection displayed...

... gendered play material culture Constructed Pasts Narratives of Home, History, and Otherness in LEGO Colin Fanning ABSTRACT: LEGO bricks are one of the world s most popular toys, part of a class of postwar playthings that addressed middle-class ideals of childhood creativity and educative play...

... culture emancipation Florida Seminoles material culture Race and Representation Keeping Hannah: Restoring the Life of America s Last Slave Bethany Montagano Abstract: This paper is about Hannah, touted by early twentieth century tourists as America s last black slave held by the Florida...

...Henry Glassie; Barbara Truesdell Henry Glassie discusses the early life influences that led him to folklore as his vocation. He describes his formal education; his mentoring by Fred B. Kniffen, whose training shaped Glassie's study of material culture; his job as the state folklorist...

... used to educate students about the practice and philosophy of medicine, they are now used to teach students about local, medical, Canadian and public history. © 2007 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 2007 Medical museums material culture history of medicine...

...Mark P. Leone © National Council for Public History material culture Henry Glassie and the General Meaning of Things MARK P. LEONE Material Culture by Henry Glassie. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1999; 416 pp., photographs, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index...