History

History museum suspending operations, studies new financial model

22 May 2012

Charlotte’s financially-troubled Museum of History is expected to announce today that it will suspend operations Friday and will be closed to the public through the summer while it works out a new business plan. Dating to 1976, the Shamrock Road museum includes the Hezekiah Alexander House, a rock dwelling built in 1774 that is the oldest surviving house in Mecklenburg County. Since the economic ...

National Museum of Natural History plans human genome exhibition

22 May 2012

At the Smithsonian Institution, scientists have been researching life on Earth and leading explorations everywhere on the planet for more than 160 years. The National Museum of Natural History has been the prime location for intricate displays of the scientists’ work. Now the museum has partnered with the National Human Genome Research Institute of NIH to develop an exhibit about a scientific ...

Robert Kraig: A real history of the recall in Wisconsin

22 May 2012

There is a coordinated right-wing effort to rewrite Wisconsin history to undermine the legitimacy of the recall of Scott Walker. The stakes of this revisionist history could not be higher. The…