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History News for Spring 2013 Arrives1 comment

Max van Balgooy wrote 5 hours ago: History News, Spring 2013 It’s mid-June and the spring 2013 issue of History News just arrived … more →

Tags: Books and Articles, community engagement, Historic Preservation, Opinions, technology, American Association for State and Local History, Carol Kammen, David Schaller, Gail Anderson

Columbage summs up for The Huffington Post

thuppahi wrote 15 hours ago: Dinouk Colombage in http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dinouk-colombage/sri-lanka-forgetting-to-r_b_34591 … more →

Tags: Accountability, Constitutional Amendments, democratic measures, Indian Ocean politics, LTTE, Nationalism, Political Discourse, Power & Politics, power-sharing

Dayan sums up the State of 13th Amendment PLAY for THE HINDU

thuppahi wrote 15 hours ago: Courtesy of The Hindu A political battle of major proportions, perhaps the most portentous in years, … more →

Tags: authoritarian regimes, Constitutional Amendments, democratic measures, governance, Indian Ocean politics, Legal Issues, Nationalism, Power & Politics, power-sharing

Top Ten Ideas to Build Effective Museum Experiences4 comments

Max van Balgooy wrote 1 day ago: This slideshow requires JavaScript. A couple weeks ago, I was part of a workshop on building effecti … more →

Tags: Training, Resources, community engagement, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Maryland Historical Trust, Mary Alexander, Maryland, Historic London Town and Gardens, Tom Mayes

Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka: The Trouser under the Cloth

thuppahi wrote 2 days ago: Anoma Pieris Abstract: The role of the home, the domestic sphere and the intimate, ethno-cultural id … more →

Tags: Heritage, island economy, Life Stories, sri lankan society

Creeping Totalitarianism? Eran Wickramaratne speaks out against Government Moves on Press Ethics

thuppahi wrote 3 days ago: Eran Wickramaratne The reactivation, of the Press Council Law and the government-proposed Code of Et … more →

Tags: suicide bombing, democratic measures, Accountability, Power & Politics, Political Discourse, Legal Issues

To meddle or NOT to meddle? The 13th Amendment in the Gunsights

thuppahi wrote 3 days ago: ONE: Kumar David: “Racists abhor breathing space for Tamils: Constitutional panic and proposal … more →

Tags: Sinhala-Tamil Relations, Rajapaksa regime, Indian Ocean politics, power-sharing, Accountability, Power & Politics, sri lankan society, Political Discourse, World Affairs

Usha S-S boxed in from All Sides: A Singular Tamil Spokesperson

thuppahi wrote 3 days ago: Padraig Colman, in the Sunday Island, where the title is “Who speaks for Sri Lanka’s Tam … more →

Tags: Accountability, authoritarian regimes, Law of Armed Conflict, Life Stories, LTTE, Military Strategy, Nationalism, Political Discourse, Power & Politics

Video: Russian Museum of Architecture promo2 comments

Max van Balgooy wrote 6 days ago: And now for something completely different, a one-minute video promoting the Museum of Architecture … more →

Tags: community engagement, museum, technology, museum of architecture, Russia, Video

Video: 100 Riffs

Max van Balgooy wrote 1 week ago: Musician Alan Chadwick of the Chicago Music Exchange plays a history of rock and roll in twelve minu … more →

Tags: COLLECTIONS, Video

Managing Timelines for Research and Interpretation2 comments

Max van Balgooy wrote 1 week ago: Aeon Timeline by Scribblecode. If you’ve ever been involved in researching or interpreting an … more →

Tags: Books and Articles, History, technology, Aeon Timeline, Timelines

Victorian Tea Cooking Class This Sunday!

michellegate wrote 2 weeks ago: There are still four spots left in my Sunday Victorian Cooking Course. We’ll be doing traditio … more →

Tags: History, Cooking Classes, cooking class, ireland house, museums of burlington, Afternoon Tea, Victorian Tea

National Youth Program Award Finalists Offer Inspiration to Sites

Max van Balgooy wrote 2 weeks ago: The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, and its cultural partners, the National En … more →

Tags: community engagement, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, National Building Museum, New-York Historical Society, Sojourn to the Past

Video: Food Critic Reviews Museum Cafe

Max van Balgooy wrote 2 weeks ago: Tom Sietsema, the food critic for the Washington Post, provides a rare video review of Mitsitam, the … more →

Tags: cultural diversity, District of Columbia, mitsitam, Restaurants

Edwardian Tea2 comments

michellegate wrote 3 weeks ago: I meant to post about this a couple weeks ago and got totally distracted with life. So here it is … more →

Tags: History, Out and About, Burlington, ireland house, museums of burlington, Afternoon Tea, Edwardian, historical interpreter

Video: Atlanta Lamppost

Max van Balgooy wrote 3 weeks ago: This video is one of the forty multimedia stops in a new ”story-caching” application tha … more →

Tags: technology, ARwerks, Atlanta, Georgia

Interpreting Bondage and Freedom in the Chesapeake2 comments

Max van Balgooy wrote 3 weeks ago: This slideshow requires JavaScript. Visiting Annapolis a few weeks ago, I had a chance to see the ne … more →

Tags: cultural diversity, Design, History, People, Adler Display, African-American History, Ariane Hofstedt, Art At Large, Charles Mack Design

Neither Tiger nor Lion: A Suffering Tamil Voice of Reason from Diaspora Land2 comments

thuppahi wrote 4 weeks ago: A  Tamil in UK who must remain Anonymous … responding to Tamil nationalist commemorations of t … more →

Tags: Accountability, Cultural Transmission, ethnicity, Law of Armed Conflict, LTTE, Martyrdom, mass conscription, Nationalism, Photography

Pragmatic Action & Enchanted Worlds: A Black Tiger Rite of Commemoration

thuppahi wrote 1 month ago: Michael Roberts,   … a reprint of an article in Social Analysis,  Volume 50, Issue 1, Spring 2 … more →

Tags: Islamic fundamentalism, Jihad, Life Stories, LTTE, Nationalism, Performance, Political Discourse, power-sharing, Prabhakaran


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