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As the semester is coming to an end, all of us on the @phillyhistory project are considering what we have and have not accomplished and evaluating our Steemit experiment. Although the experiment will continue

As one of our final posts, the members of the @phillyhistory project are discussing what we would do with $10k, $100k, $1 million, and $10 million to have maximum impact in public history. Having only

We’ve been talking a lot about the financial difficulties many museums have to face. One of the biggest expenses for museums is collections management and storage. Collections take up lots of space, require

So I was going to write a post about jet packs and how society might be different if the US Army had pursued them further in the 1960s instead of abandoning the project and pivoting to helicopters, and

This week, my colleagues in the Philly History Project are discussing deaccessioning, which is the process of removing objects from a museum/archival collection. We did several readings about it, including

As I’m close to graduating, I’ve been doing a lot of job searching lately. But as my colleague @johnesmithiii pointed out, there are very few (basically no) full-time entry-level jobs at history institutions.

The Philadelphia History Museum (PHM) is struggling. They are considering merging with Temple University, which could be very beneficial. @jfeagan has discussed some ways this could restructure the museum

Our class is finally coming to the point where we will be making some decisions on what projects to undertake with our SBD. As we continue to consider what’s broken in the Philadelphia cultural sector

I’ve talked before about how our class has been discussing problems in the nonprofit sector. This week we are proposing ideas to address specific needs. My first idea arose out of last year’s PubComm (a

Hint: Only two of them dominate front line combat. One of our challenges this week is to consider the pros and cons of large, medium, and small museums. To start, I wrote some bulletpoints for pros and

We continue to discuss the problems in the Philadelphia cultural sector in class this week. Our readings dealt with two potential solutions, including a massive history center which would serve as the

This week our class is discussing strategic planning. In preparation for this, I’m looking at and comparing two strategic plans—one from the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) and the other from the National

One of the things historians talk about is how bias affects historical scholarship. Even when we try to be as objective as possible we can never fully escape the Biases in the sources themselves, in whatever

Flight and airplanes were still very new in 1918. WWI occasioned many innovations in flight, especially in military aviation. These include machine guns that don’t fire when the propeller is in front of

I’ve been posting a lot about 1918, but today I’m gonna take a break from it for a bit to look at the Philadelphia cultural sector in 2018. We’ve been talking a lot in our non-profit management class about

Military inventions often go on to live a civilian life. For example, the internet developed out of a Department of Defense project, as well as GPS systems. Major wars often seem to accelerate the pace

WWI was raging for most of 1918, and as Philadelphia was a big industrial city, it played a large role in producing supplies for the war effort. One of the players in the steel industry, Midvale Steel

As I was researching Philadelphia veterans, I found an article in the Washington Post about a hospital ship recently arrived back from Europe. It goes on to list some of the wounded on the ship, including

Hi Steemians! My name is Derek Engle. I’m a grad student at Temple in the Public History MA program, and also an artillery officer in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. My historical interests focus