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

June 2023 Newsletter

Danielle Kinsey Blog Post

Living in a Material World

June 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

Carly Ciufo:

I have been watching the Deindustrialization and the

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