Expanding A Vision: Seventy-Five Years of Public History
Posted by Brent Glass on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Expanding A Vision: Seventy-Five Years of Public History Three-quarters of a century ago, it probably surprised no one that the first act of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, not long after its creation in 1913, was to survey all monuments and memorials in the Commonwealth’s sixty-seven counties. At that time it was universally assumed that public history involved commemoration and the rituals associated with recognizing significant...read more