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            Bulldozing a Path: North St. Louis and NGA is a short documentary film that explores the idea of urban renewal as a cyclical cycle. This cycle often starts by removing the current, underprivileged community and evidence of their historical presence. This theme of destruction and renewal is explored by looking at North St. Louis’s recent…

Hist 6125 Week 3 Reflection This is an excellent question! I have heard the saying, “People do not quit their jobs, they quit their boss” more times than I care to count during my time in corporate America! Leadership can really make or break a team. However, effective leadership, is never taught or even always…

Hist 6125 Week 2 Reflection In short, a strategic plan is a roadmap that provides the museum with a direction, improves performance, and allows a museum to adapt to changes both to community response and legal policies. This roadmap should be well planned out, involve all stakeholders, and align with the museum’s mission. Typically speaking,…

During the 1960s- 1980s many grassroots organizations popped up in St. Louis in an attempt to preserve the historic integrity of neighborhoods. The Landmarks Association of St. Louis, and Lafayette Square Restoration Committee are a few of these organizations. Additionally, the Missouri Historic Preservation Tax Credit program encouraged preservation in St. Louis. Despite this Old…

In Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (Politics and Culture in Modern America)Gordon argues that St. Louis, Missouri is another example of an abandoned, deindustrialized, and segregated American city. Gordon claims that the restrictions on real estate, segregation in neighborhoods, white flight to suburbia, and industries leaving the city have all…

In From Storefront to Monument: Tracing the Public History of the Black Museum Movement Andrea Burns argues that many of the cultural institutions focusing on African American heritage are linked back to the social movements of the 60s and 70s. Specifically, the Black Power movement helped pave the way for more accurate representation of African American heritage…

In the book Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service the authors (Anne Mitchell Whisnant, Marla R. Miller, Gary B. Nash, and David Thelen) argue that National Park Service workers have a major role to play in historical preservation. They point out that there is more than just picturesque landscapes and endangered wildlife…

There is a driving tour in St. Louis created by University of Missouri- St. Louis students that 20 historic sites. These sites range from the now demolished, Josephine Baker home to Fashion High School. The sites are mapped out in away that makes the tour easy to follow on ones own. Additionally, each site has…

In her book Taking Possession: The politics of Memory in a St. Louis Town House Heidi Aronson Kolk argues that there are intentional acts encouraging memory and forgetting as well as nostalgia and shame. She makes this point by demonstrating the various pinpoints in time and artifacts, in chapter form, that impact the memory surrounding…