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Umaine's Incredible Cultural Legacy: Strategies And Models For Promoting Collections, Gretchen Faulker, Patricia Henner, Desiree Butterfield-Nagy, Katrina Winn
Umaine's Incredible Cultural Legacy: Strategies And Models For Promoting Collections, Gretchen Faulker, Patricia Henner, Desiree Butterfield-Nagy, Katrina Winn
Desiree Butterfield-Nagy
Four UMaine museums and archives discussed projects that serve as case studies for promoting collections and casemaking at other institutions. Topics included the Hudson Museum's loan of a Northwest Coast mask -- the one that inspired the Seahawks logo -- to the University of Washington; the campaign to save the campus barn which is now home to the Page Farm and Home Museum; the digitization of the holdings of the Maine Folklife Center for the Library of Congress; and the digitization of holdings in Special Collections celebrating UMaine's 150th.
The New Pulpit: Museums, Authority, And The Cultural Reproduction Of Young-Earth Creationism, Lindsay Marie Barone
The New Pulpit: Museums, Authority, And The Cultural Reproduction Of Young-Earth Creationism, Lindsay Marie Barone
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Since the mid-twentieth century there has been increasing concern among evangelical Christians over the depiction of human origins in American education. For young-Earth creationists, it has been a priority to replace scientific information which contradicts the six-day origin story reported in Genesis 1 with evidence they claim scientifically reinforces their narrative. As this has failed in public education, creationists have switched tactics, moving from “teach creationism” to “teach the controversy”. The struggle over evolution education in the classroom is well-documented, but less attention has been paid to how young-Earth creationists push their agenda in informal educational venues such as museums. …