• Disability and Place

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  Perri Meldon | Nov 15, 2018

  Perceptions of disability have shifted over time. How can historical interpreters help visitors understand these changes?
• Processing Grief

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  Kritika Agarwal | Oct 22, 2018

  Inside the movement to preserve objects and testimony from mass shootings and other public tragedies.
• Broadening Horizons

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  Misha Appeltova, Zach Nacev, and Gregory Valdespino | May 3, 2018

  We stopped in front of a painting portraying a group of villagers by a river. “What do you see?” asked Elsie Hector Hernandez, owner and director of t...
• A Difficult Past: Interpreting Slavery at Presidential Plantations

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  Zoë Jackson | Feb 16, 2018

  In 2016, excavations at Highland—the Charlottesville, Virginia, home of President James Monroe—led to a discovery that would completely reshape interp...

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