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philly5151
2018-04-25 17:39
A Contingency Plan
Plan-b by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images The denouement upon us This week ends our crypto-experiment in nonprofit fundraising and adminstration. You’ll find my review of the product of our
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fundraising
2018-04-23 02:00
That's a Wrap! #philly5151 Project Review
A screenshot of a tweet that I'm unable to properly embed into the Steemit text editor. The semester is swiftly coming to a close, and with it ends our crypto-experiment. (If you're just tuning in, you
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socialmedia
2018-04-11 16:37
Embedding Digital Strategy: An Organizational Best Practice
In 2014, the Wyncote Foundation commissioned a report entitled "Like, Link, Share: How Cultural Institutions Are Embracing Digital Technology." The report profiled "40 exceptional organizations
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detroit
2018-04-11 00:30
Present Perfect Public History: The Future of Audience-Centered Cultural Organizations
Cultural Organizations and the 21st-century Identity Crisis As many of the readings and articles written for #explore1918 have addressed, contemporary museums are said to be undergoing an identity crisis;
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history
2018-03-14 15:43
Criteria for Funding a Socially-Responsible Public History Project in Philadelphia
At this point in the semester, we have managed to squirrel away a significant amount of money - $3000 STEEM, in fact - to be used to support a jointly-agreed-upon nonprofit venture. Tasked with composing
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philadelphia
2018-02-28 16:26
Putting Philadelphia's Own House in Order: Historians and their Responsibility to Urgent Community Needs
Fifty years after the Fair Housing Act was passed, housing discrimination is alive and well in Philly, a recent article by Reveal for The Center for Investigative Reporting revealed. Jen Kinney for WHYY’s
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history
2018-02-21 18:22
Reflections on a (Flawed) Vision for a History Center in Philadelphia
In 1996, the Atwater Kent Museum and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, two prominent Philadelphia-area history institutions, set forth a grand vision for The History Center in Philadelphia. The History
cheider
history
2018-02-18 23:21
Wartime Rationing, Food Aid, and "Civilized" Sickness: The Problem of Pellagra in 1918
I most recently wrote about wartime food restrictions under the #explore1918 theme in Everybody's Got to Eat! Cooking like it's 1918. Today I address a more serious side of the issue: the effect of nutritional
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history
2018-02-15 00:27
Arts, Culture, and Philanthropy: The Robbed and the Robbers
Fashionable ladies examine paintings in the 1870s. Source Back in 1892, art exhibitions were not held for the general public. Art galleries were considered suitable only for the better classes, like art
cheider
food
2018-02-08 14:29
Everybody's Got to Eat! Cooking like it's 1918
So far in the #explore1918 series, I've written about how World War I impacted free speech, Eastern European immigrants' cultural pride, literature, and the legality of condoms. Next I'm going to turn
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money
2018-02-07 17:05
"Fixing" the Cultural Sector
I'm a millennial. I'm one of those mysterious, fickle, and elusive creatures that the nonprofit world spends hours bemoaning, pandering to, and unsuccessfully wooing with direct mailers of personalized
cheider
explore1918
2018-02-01 05:10
A Call to Arms of Another Kind: 1918, A Banner Year for the Condom
I'm writing about culture for #explore1918 (see my prior entry about Edith Wharton's "propaganda novel"). In honor of Valentine's Day, and in a thematically-compatible spirit as my colleague
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explore1918
2018-01-30 23:36
Forgotten Works of 1918: Reassessing Edith Wharton's 'The Marne'
My past two entries for #explore1918 have dealt with serious political issues: specifically, censorship and sedition in wartime through the lens of the Philadelphia Tageblatt trial; and an odd and unsuccessful
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explore1918
2018-01-29 16:35
A Declaration of Independence for the Oppressed: The Mid-European Union at Independence Hall
A Remarkably-Timed Celebration Although the Great War would not end for another three weeks, and much of the city was laid low with the deadly Spanish influenza epidemic, for some the mood in Center City
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explore1918
2018-01-24 18:45
The Limitations of Free Speech in Wartime: The Philadelphia Tageblatt Trial
September of 1918 was a fraught time in Philadelphia. Day after day, newspaper headlines carried a grim mixture of battle updates from the Great War, seemingly endless lists war casualties, appeals for
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introduceyourself
2018-01-22 21:26
Full Steem Ahead!
Pleased to meet you! Yours truly doing research in Port Penn, Delaware I’m Cynthia Heider, a student in the Public History M.A. program at Temple University in Philadelphia. I’m gearing up to #explore1918
