February 2024 Newsletter

Danielle Kinsey Blog Post
Valentine's Day cards
Handmade Valentine's Day cards, Wikipedia

A monthly roundup of what we’re reading, watching, or listening to this month in the world of material culture, alongside any updates from our editorial board.

February is the month for many, many things material culture, whether we’re talking about rodents and their shadows, valentines, or wood dragons. In the US, Canada, and parts of Europe, it’s Black History Month, and in the UK, it’s LBGT+ History Month. There are lots of ways material culture studies can be used to highlight, historicize, and critique in these 29 leap days, not to mention taking on

BLOG: Tallersol Cultural Centre: Memories of Resistance by Richard G. Smith

Gretchen Pierce (She/her/hers) Blog Post
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H-Latamist@s: I believe the system-upgrade bugs have been worked out and we are back to a regular publication schedule. While I have many blog posts in the queue, I am always looking for more. Now that many of us are back to school, we would love to know all about your summer research! Please contact Gretchen Pierce at gkpierce@ship.edu or at this Google Form if you would like to contribute for the good of the H-Latam community.

Richard Smith originally trained as a chemist before a career in consumer product innovation took him all over the world, including three fantastic years living in

May 2023 Newsletter

Danielle Kinsey Blog Post

Living in a Material World

 

MAY 2023 NEWSLETTER

 

A monthly roundup of what we’re reading this month – or listening to – in the world of material culture, alongside any updates from our editorial board.

 

The upgrade of our H-Material Culture website is coming this summer! If you’re curious about what the new platform will be like and how you can use it to build a personal public profile, there’s a 90 second trailer available here: https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/contributed-files/h-net30teasertrailerv2.mp4

 

What we’ve been reading

 

Jennifer M. Black:

This past week my university sponsored a

April 2023 Newsletter: What we've been reading

Danielle Kinsey Blog Post

Living in a Material World

 

APRIL 2023 NEWSLETTER

 

A monthly roundup of what we’re reading this month – or listening to – in the world of material culture, alongside any updates from our editorial board.

What we’ve been reading

Carly Ciufo:

When on fieldwork in Liverpool in 2019, multiple educators that I spoke to at the International Slavery Museum (ISM) proudly discussed a stamp of abolitionist Harriet Tubman that was archived in both their handling and permanent collections. Created by artist Dano Wall when the Tubman revision to the $20USD banknote was halted, it stamps Tubman’s image over

Today we continue with the “Teaching with H-Latam’s Research Corner Blog” series featuring graduate students from Rutgers University. This post and the previous one are not only the result of my collaboration with Dr. Tatiana Seijas, who used Research Corner to teach her graduate students about archival research, but the author, a middle and high school history teacher, will also use some of the primary sources she has discovered to teach her own students. Want to do something similar? I am in need of new blog posts! If you are also interested in contributing to the good of the

El día de hoy terminamos una serie sobre recursos artísticos en México. El primer post está aquí. Si le gustaría contribuir a este blog también, favor de llenar este Google Form. Posts pueden estar en español, portugués o inglés.

Marco Polo Juárez Cruz estudia un doctorado en Historia del Arte en la Universidad de Maryland. Su investigación se centra en el arte moderno en Latinoamérica, especializándose en la emergencia del arte abstracto en la región y su relación con identidades locales, grupos artísticos y museos, políticas culturales y la Guerra Fría. Marco Polo ha colaborado

 

El día de hoy tengo el gusto de empezar una serie sobre recursos artísticos en México. Si le gustaría contribuir a este blog también, favor de llenar este Google Form.

Marco Polo Juárez Cruz estudia un doctorado en Historia del Arte en la Universidad de Maryland. Su investigación se centra en el arte moderno en Latinoamérica, especializándose en la emergencia del arte abstracto en la región y su relación con identidades locales, grupos artísticos y museos, políticas culturales y la Guerra Fría. Marco Polo ha colaborado en proyectos de investigación en el Museo de Arte Moderno

University Museums, Iowa State University

Andrea Truitt Blog Post

Location: Ames, Iowa

Farm House Museum: http://www.museums.iastate.edu/Farm%20House.html

Iowa Artists Collection: http://umsm003.its.iastate.edu/view/objects/asimages/2886?t:state:flow=c0f7ef53-447e-452c-93a1-56bd3c489acf

Christian Petersen Art Collection: http://umsm003.its.iastate.edu/view/objects/asimages/People@87?t:state:flow=00eebdab-7e2e-4c1e-837f-4053662df566

 

Farm House Museum

The Farm House was built between 1860 and 1865 and is the oldest surviving building on the Iowa State campus.  The building became a National Historic Landmark in 1965 and was opened to the public as a museum on July

Cincinnati Art Museum Archives

Andrea Truitt Blog Post

Cincinnati Art Museum Archives

Cincinnati Art Museum

Location: Cincinnati, OH

 http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/the-archives

 

The Cincinnati Art Museum's archives are a unique collection of materials spanning almost 150 years of art history in Cincinnati and beyond. With records relating not only to the Art Museum itself, but also to the Art Academy of Cincinnati and to many locally and nationally important artists, the archives are an exceptional resource for researchers, authors, educators and students.

The largest group of records in the archives originates from the Art Museum itself. This