My colleague Josh Greenberg and I have just spent two very interesting days at the Wende Museum in Los Angeles. Our main goal during the visit was to photograph objects from the everyday life of the communist era in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union for our 1989 project. The Museum has quite the collection…
Tag: 1989 online
How low can you go?
Here’s a question that is both not very serious and not very serious at the same time. Can I bring myself to include a picture of “the Hoff” in the database of sources we are developing for the 1989 project? It is, after all, an artifact of the Cold War, just as much as the…
1989 Online
This past week I got the news from the National Endowment for the Humanities that our grant application to create a major website on the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe was accepted. The project, Making the History of 1989. Sources and Narratives on the Fall of Communism, will be the latest installment in our…