Making Memories in New York
[This post was originally on Storify; I’m archiving a slightly updated version here now that Storify is going away.] Every two years I teach an upper-level seminar called Museums, Monuments, and Memory. In that course we explore basic theoretical approaches to public history, as well as building an entire exhibit from the ground up in the lobby of our Center for Fine Arts. I choose the topic, but the students take over from that point on and figure out the…