Connecticut Magazine, November 2008
Making History
By Charles Monagan
A stunning new exhibit is an immersion into Waterbury’s past. "Waterbury is a city of neighborhoods." Certainly that's true of most large cities, but in the brilliant new permanent exhibit Coming Home: Building Community in a Changing World at Waterbury's Mattatuck Museum, that truism, and a great deal more is illustrated with creative energy and style.
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Museum News, April 2006 (excerpt)
The Historian in the Museum: An Interview with Eric Foner
By Leah Arroyo
Do history museums teach history? If so, how good are they at it? Eric Foner has some thoughts on the topic. As Columbia University’s DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, a prize-winning author, and one of the nation's leading historians, he has devoted much of his career to improving how history is taught outside the ivory tower: in museums, in middle and high schools, in newspapers, on T.V. and radio—even at Disney World.
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Wall Street Journal, February 22, 2005
Peale Appeal: Portraits of the Nation's Founders Back on View
By Ada Louise Huxtable
In the museum world, where size, hype and novelty compete for attention, it is easy for a small gem to slip under the radar. In the same week that the opening hoopla for the spectacularly expanded Museum of Modern Art in New York reached fever pitch, a trip to Philadelphia unexpectedly led to the serendipitous discovery of such a low-key treasure.
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New York Times, November 8, 1996
Savoring the Grace of an Inward Culture
By Holland Cotter
Before the 20th century, China was a universe of its own. It gave much to the rest of the world—silk and tea, printing and gunpowder—but was largely indifferent to anything offered in return. Two of its three major religions were home-grown.
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Making History
By Charles Monagan
A stunning new exhibit is an immersion into Waterbury’s past. "Waterbury is a city of neighborhoods." Certainly that's true of most large cities, but in the brilliant new permanent exhibit Coming Home: Building Community in a Changing World at Waterbury's Mattatuck Museum, that truism, and a great deal more is illustrated with creative energy and style.
>download pdf
Museum News, April 2006 (excerpt)
The Historian in the Museum: An Interview with Eric Foner
By Leah Arroyo
Do history museums teach history? If so, how good are they at it? Eric Foner has some thoughts on the topic. As Columbia University’s DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, a prize-winning author, and one of the nation's leading historians, he has devoted much of his career to improving how history is taught outside the ivory tower: in museums, in middle and high schools, in newspapers, on T.V. and radio—even at Disney World.
>download pdf
Wall Street Journal, February 22, 2005
Peale Appeal: Portraits of the Nation's Founders Back on View
By Ada Louise Huxtable
In the museum world, where size, hype and novelty compete for attention, it is easy for a small gem to slip under the radar. In the same week that the opening hoopla for the spectacularly expanded Museum of Modern Art in New York reached fever pitch, a trip to Philadelphia unexpectedly led to the serendipitous discovery of such a low-key treasure.
>download pdf
New York Times, November 8, 1996
Savoring the Grace of an Inward Culture
By Holland Cotter
Before the 20th century, China was a universe of its own. It gave much to the rest of the world—silk and tea, printing and gunpowder—but was largely indifferent to anything offered in return. Two of its three major religions were home-grown.
>download pdf