History Beginner

Tangible Things: Discovering History Through Artworks, Artifacts, Scientific Specimens, and the Stuff Around You

Tangible Things: Discovering History Through Artworks, Artifacts, Scientific Specimens, and the Stuff Around You

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Sarah Carter
Created by Sarah Carter
12 weeks
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Starts Jul 4, 2026
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What you'll learn

Master these skills and apply them to real-world projects.

Understanding of museum curation approaches
The basics of historical analysis and interpretation
A sense of the work that historians, curators, and collectors perform
Strong critical thinking and analytical skills
How things that seem to belong to different disciplines actually can “talk” to one another
How close looking at even a single object can push beyond academic and disciplinary boundaries
How things that may seem unrelated to each other can show relationships between art and science, economics, and culture, as well as between people in many different parts of the world

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2 sections · 4 lessons

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Sarah Carter

Visiting Executive Director, Center for Design and Material Culture Visiting Assistant Professor, Design Studies at The School of Human Ecology University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Ivan Gaskell

Professor of Cultural History and Museum Studies at Bard Graduate Center
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Sara Schechner

David P. Wheatland Curator Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at Harvard University
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

300th Anniversary University Professor, Emerita at Harvard University
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