This week--our final week!--we're engaging with the thought experiment of how and where we would dispense $10,000, $100,000, $1,000,000, and $10,000,000 to have maximum impact in public history. My initial

When @phillyhistory's #explore1918 project began, we all had high hopes. Steemit presented our class with an exciting opportunity to raise funds that could be used to have a real-world impact on hopefully

As my colleague @hourofhistory explained in his post, this week's reading, "The Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America’s Collections" paints yet another gloomy picture of the state

Most of the subject matter in @phillyhistory's course has been based around Philadelphia. That makes sense. I go to school in Philadelphia, a large city full of examples for learning about the cultural

This week we read about the controversial act of deaccessioning. As funding for cultural institutions continues to dwindle, more institutions are turning to selling part(s) of their collection. As our

As my colleagues and I wait for responses from our chosen organizations about applying for our #explore1918 3,000 Steem reward, I'm taking another break from my usual content to write about my digital

The other class I'm taking this semester besides @phillyhistory's Nonprofit Management is Digital History. We're learning about maps, timelines, and even podcasts as tools to make history clearer and more

Throughout the course of our @phillyhistory semester project, I have been a proponent of downsizing historical institutions. For our Steem grant, I specifically proposed funding the Philadelphia History

My initial proposal for what to do with our Philadelphia History Initiative funds argued for helping the Philadelphia History Museum downsize. Our semester has been full of readings about the problem of

This week the rest of the #explore1918 group and I are on spring break! I'm very glad to be spending the week in my (warm) hometown of Sarasota, FL. But even though we're on break, the history doesn't

Who We Are As part of the #explore1918 crypto-experiment, my classmates and I have spent the semester blogging in order to raise Steem for donation to an historical institution in Philadelphia. We estimate

Peter Dobrin's 2013 series in the Philadelphia Inquirer about the city's culture sector paints a picture of a once booming industry. But now, as Dobrin wrote, "The Philadelphia cultural community's

A Virtual Chat with Students @phillyhistory is currently in the midst of hosting a history course at Temple University, where a talented group of graduate students are acclimating to Steemit and using

It was just a few months ago that almost everyone in the United States had eclipse fever. Leading up to August 21, 2017, people traveled from around the world to small towns in states like South Carolina

Our class' exact prompt from @phillyhistory this week is, "When it comes to interpreting, preserving, presenting the past, what are the pros and cons of big, midsized and small institutions?"

This week I was inspired by my colleague @hourofhistory's post about podcasts. I think he's right that podcasts present a low-cost way to generate historical content that, thanks to the internet, can reach

For the past few weeks my #explore1918 posts have followed a standard format: I've researched something about 1918 and then written about it. This week I decided to do something different. Instead of just

This week the @phillyhistory team is taking a break from #explore1918 to talk about the present state of the cultural sector in Philadelphia. With inspiration from our assigned readings by the Technical

For the past two semesters, I've been in classes that focused on Philadelphia's suffering during the 1918 Spanish influenza. The outbreak was undoubtedly tragic for the city, and thus most of the relevant

Many may not know that much of early telephone history took place in Philadelphia. In fact, Philadelphia is where Alexander Graham Bell first shared his invention with the American public when he introduced