Any Old Epaulet
Details: we sweat them in our historical clothing, our impressions, our writing. I try hard to pay attention to them, but in my work, I have a lot of details to...
Tag: material culture
Staging Christmas
It’s pretty stagey to begin with, isn’t it? Full of ritual, some so old we don’t know why we still perform them. What I like best is the food, not the cakes and...
Museum Fail: Icon, not Replica
Do you know what this is? Do you think it’s real? Here’s a clue: it’s a relic of an iconic event in early 21st-century North America. On the l...
The Landscapes of Things
Or, you never know where things will end up. You can learn a lot about a place by visiting its antique and junk shops. Here, where the China Trade was A THING, ...
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