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Monday, June 21, 2010

Stuff and Nonsense

Via Boston1775's Twitter feed:

Museum directors enumerate myths that "should by now be history."
Posted by Caitlin GD Hopkins at 5:48 PM
Labels: material culture, museum, myth-making, public history

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