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Using Objects of Intolerance to Teach Tolerance and Promote Social Justice: The Case of the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
David Pilgrim, Curator, The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia and Professor, Ferris State University The Jim Crow Museum (JCM) began as the personal project of then-Sociology Professor David Pilgrim, and grew out of his collection of more than 3,000 segregation-related artifacts. After using...
A Letter From Malibu
This Letter from the Field was shared with us by Emma Sachs – MSP10. The Getty Villa in Malibu, California, is the only museum in the United States exclusively dedicated to the cultures of the Ancient Mediterranean world, and it is here that I...
Greetings from Cavendish, Prince Edward Island
This Letter from the Field was shared with us by Sarah Gothie – MSP09. Prince Edward Island (PEI) is a tiny, crescent-shaped province located north of Nova Scotia and east of New Brunswick. The island is a patchwork of rolling fields festooned with clusters...
A Postcard from Ancient Corinth
This Letter from the Field was shared with us by Katherine Larson – MSP10. It’s 10:30 am on a warm, sunny July morning in Greece, and I walk out of the museum at the archaeological site of Ancient Corinth on a quest for my...
