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Plenary Podcast “Mike Wallace”

LearningTimes Team — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:33:08 +0000

Mike Wallace, coauthor of the Pulitzer-Prize winning Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, is Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York). His most recent book—A New Deal for New York—examines the future of post September 11 New York in the light of its past. He published a series of essays that explore the ways history is used and abused in American popular culture, including pieces on Disney World, Colonial Williamsburg, the Enola Gay controversy at the Smithsonian, and historic preservation; these have been collected in Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory (1997) and he helped found the Radical History Review (now affiliated with Duke University Press). Wallace is now working on the second volume of Gotham: A History of New York City that will cover the history of New York City from 1898 through the Second World War.

Click the “play” button below to listen to this AASLH 2009 Plenary address (recorded August 28, 2009 in Indianapolis, IN):

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	AASLH2009-mikewallace.mp3 (MPEG Layer 2 Audio, 29.2 MB)

Featured Podcast: “Technology, Web 2.0, and Historic Sites: Strategies for Engagement”

LearningTimes Team — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:03:34 +0000

Technology and social networking offer tools with tremendous promise, but how are historic sites making use of those tools? Hear how three sites have developed strategies to engage new audiences and expand their interpretation. Attendees were encouraged to share ideas that have (or have not) worked at their site. Please add your own ideas, reflections and stories in the comments area below.

Chair: Craig Tuminaro, Director of Museum Interpretation, Drayton Hall, Charleston, SC

Click the “play” button below to listen to this AASLH 2009 featured session (recorded August 27, 2009 in Indianapolis, IN):

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	AASLH2009-web20.mp3 (MPEG Layer 2 Audio, 5.0 MB)

Keynote Podcast: “Harold Holzer”

LearningTimes Team — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:00:21 +0000

In the heart of Lincoln country during his bicentennial years, hear from one of the country’s leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture in the Civil War era, Harold Holzer.

Harold Holzer is one of the country’s leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture in the Civil War era. A prolifi c writer and lecturer, and frequent guest on television, he serves as cochairman of the United States Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. He has authored, coauthored, and edited twenty-two books on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, including The Lincoln Image, Lincoln Seen and Heard, Dear Mr. Lincoln: Letters to the President, Lincoln as I Knew Him, and Lincoln on Democracy. Holzer is vice president for communications and marketing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Click the “play” button below to listen to this AASLH 2009 Keynote address (recorded August 27, 2009 in Indianapolis, IN):

	To download the podcast, right-click on the link below and save the file to your local system.
	AASLH2009-HaroldHolzer.mp3 (MPEG Layer 2 Audio, 22.5 MB)

AASLH Annual Meeting

LearningTimes Team — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:10:19 +0000

The days of museums as “cabinets of curiosity” are gone. To succeed in our increasingly fast-paced, technology-saturated society, we must embrace new models of operation. Remembering from 2007 that relevance equals the bottom line and from 2008 the power of transformation, we envision becoming centers for ideas and inspiration–cultural entrepreneurs. The 2009 AASLH Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, will explore the place of entrepreneurship within the field–marrying fresh concepts with our mission as stewards of the past.