Volume 30 November 2008 Number 4
Editor's Corner
Thirty Years of Getting the Word Out
Randolph Bergstrom
Managing Museums
The End of History Museums: What’s Plan B?
Cary Carson
Historical Consultants
The Problems with Publishing: Obstacles Faced by History Consultants in Publishing Their Work
Matthew C. Godfrey
Historic Preservation
Minding Our Manors: Lithuanian Heritage at Risk
Jurgis Bucas, Indre Grazuleviciute, Zita Medisauskiene, and Jurga Vitkuviene
Pioneers of Public History
A Life in the Field: Henry Glassie and the Study of Material Culture
Henry Glassie and Barbara Truesdell
Louisville Museum and Exhibit Reviews
Louisville: A City with a History
Lee M. A. Simpson
Photo Essay of Louisville
Steven T. Moga
Fourth Street Walking Tour compiled by Rick Bell; edited by the National Council on Public History Local Arrangements Committee
Reviewed by Steven T. Moga
Olmsted Park and Parkways System. Parks Restoration Project undertaken in partnership between Louisville Metro Parks, Mike Heitz, director, and Olmstead Parks Conservancy, Inc., Mimi Zinniel, president and CEO.
Reviewed by Denise Meringolo
Heaven Hill Distilleries and Bourbon Tasting Tour. Michael R. Veach, tour guide. Heaven Hill Distilleries, Bardstown, Kentucky. Lynn Grant, curator
Reviewed by Frederick J. Augustyn
Farmington Historic Plantation. Amanda Caffee, assistant director. Lincoln and Farmington: An Enduring Friendship. Kathy Nichols, curator; Solid Light, Inc., designer.
Reviewed by Keith A. Erekson
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage: Men and Women of the Underground Railroad in the Indiana and Kentucky Borderland. Sally Newkirk, curator and director.
Reviewed by Marty D. Matthews
Kentucky’s Abraham Lincoln. Darrell Meadows, Vickey Middleswarth, and Annette Parde, curators.
Reviewed by Kate Navarra Thibodeau
Locust Grove and Revolutionary War Encampment/Eighteenth Century Thunder. Carol Ely, executive director.
Reviewed by Edward Roach
Archdiocese of Louisville History Center. Father Dale Cieslik, curator and archivist.
Reviewed by Susan W. Knowles
Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory. Anne Jewel, executive director.
Reviewed by Marianne Babal
The Muhammad Ali Center. Greg Roberts, president and CEO.
Reviewed by Kathy Nichols
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft. Kevin O’Brien, executive director.
Reviewed by William S. Walker
Callahan Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind, Louisville, Kentucky. Michael Hudson, director.
Reviewed by Maggie Dennis
Book Reviews
From the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to the Holocaust Denial Trials: Challenging the Media, the Law, and the Academy edited by Gerald Herman, Debra Kaufman, David Phillips, and James Ross
Reviewed by Peter Black
Sanctuaries of Earth, Stone, and Light: The Churches of Northern New Spain, 1530-1821 by Gloria Fraser Giffords
Reviewed by Ann Buckun
History and Theory: Cultural History by Anna Green
Reviewed by Richard Cándida Smith
Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization by Stephen High and David W. Lewis
Reviewed by Mark Crinson
John F. Kennedy’s Birthplace: A Presidential Home in History and Memory by Alexander von Hoffman
Reviewed by Benjamin Hufbauer
Historical Knowledge, Historical Error: A Contemporary Guide to Practice by Allan Megill
Reviewed by Mona L. Siegel
Exhibit Reviews
Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Ruth J. Abram, president.
Reviewed by Shira Kohn
The Spy Museum. Peter Earnest, executive director.
Reviewed by Robert Hanyok
National Museum of the Marine Corps. Lin Ezell, director.
Reviewed by Gale Munro
The Museum of the Occupation of Latvia. Gundega Michel, director.
Reviewed by Michael Kelleher