#publichistory

Human anatomy & physiology was a staple of the Wagner’s educational program during its first thirty years. It was taught almost every semester between 1855 and 1885 by over 15 different professors.

The Wagner Free Institute of Science was born out of William Wagner’s love of the natural world, his belief in the importance of science education, and his knowledge that it was not accessible to the majority

Temple University-Wagner Fellow, Jena Osman, found inspiration in a single specimen of brain coral. See our previous post to learn more about this specimen and other corals in our collection. This specimen

Stony Corals, or hard corals, are the reef builders of the world and exist in many different shapes and sizes. In fact, there are over 3,000 species of stony corals! While the Wagner museum does not have

When it comes to the dynamics of Steemit, I’m no expert. But I do have a good sense of the dynamics of a big-city cultural community. In particular, since the late 1970s I’ve focused on the care and feeding

Can Victorian microbiology inspire beautiful jewelry? The answer is yes! Emily Cobb first visited the Wagner's museum over ten years ago and returned repeatedly finding inspiration in the displays of

Hello from the staff at the Wagner Free Institute of Science! We are very excited to be part of the Steemit world and to explore the new and exciting ways a cultural institution can add to and benefit

As promised, the semester-long crypto-experiment conducted by graduate courses at Temple University's Center for Public History and Temple's MLA Program has concluded with an allocation of the rewards

As we boasted last time, the @phillyhistory project was brought to life by 15 students who, along with @phillyhistory, published 297 posts in 15 weeks drawing 872 comments and 10,647 upvotes. Thanks to

What has the @phillyhistory collective, the 15 students in this 15-week, crypto-experiment in higher education and the nonprofit sector done since mid January? Quite a lot, really. Late last year, in December

Privyet Steemrades! This week, those of us working on the @phillyhistory project have been tasked with considering how we would use various sums of money to make a positive impact on public history. To

This week we @phillyhistory are faced with the hypothetical challenge of dispensing $10,000; $100,000; $1,000,000; and $10,000,000 to have maximum impact for public history. Here is my idea. image source

What we’ve been reading, discussing & doing Here are some summaries from the @Phillyhistory Feed our twelfth week of the semester. In this thoughtful post, @johnesmithiii highlights from the reading

Now we are seven. We’re down to seven projects, that is. And each of the home organizations will soon receive a version of the email below. Before we hit the “send” button, does anyone have any corrections,

Class is cancelled today (snow!), but we’re moving along in several ways as we have seven projects to consider: • Create Paid Internships at Art-Reach (proposed by @charliehersh) • Develop Community Led

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Decision Time Approaches Thanks to our collective teamwork, we now have two essential lists: 1) Nonprofit organizations, candidates capable of implementing projects with the 3000 STEEM we’ve accumulated,

It’s time to rank our top 10 project ideas for funding. In two recent posts - this one and this one - we presented summaries of ten interesting project ideas proposed by graduate students in public history.

It's time to design a decision grid. We have many ideas, good ones, and they are before us in posts on the PhillyHistory feed, summarized here and here. Now’s the time to look at them more closely and

It’s time to debate the PROS and CONS of our top 10 ideas. In this post and yesterday’s we present a total of ten summaries of project ideas proposed by graduate students in public history. The purpose: