Tag: history
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“The Making of an Icon: Walter Iooss and Sports Photography” Curated by Interpreting Sports Wins 2024 AASLH Award of Excellence
SOMERVILLE, MA—June 17, 2025—The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) proudly announces that Interpreting Sports, LLC and the Housatonic Museum of Art are the recipients of an Award of Excellence for The Making of an Icon: Walter Iooss and Sports Photography. The AASLH Leadership in History Awards, now in its 80th year, is…
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“Playing for Keeps” is NOW: Interpreting Sports
Well, it’s been a hot minute since last you heard from us. And we must say, just a *few* things have happened in the meantime … What started as a meager blog about sports + museums, “Playing for Keeps,” quickly became a book contract that became an international, seven year, deep dive into sports history…
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Requested: Sports Exhibit Feedback
Where is your favorite sports museum in the world? Which sports museum or exhibit did not resonate with you? Which ones should I DEFINITELY visit? Which sports museums do I HAVE to see, specifically while I am in Europe (now until March)? Or perhaps you have never seen a sports exhibit, I would love to know why. Either…
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Kansas City Here I Come
Kansas City. You know the town that Motown made famous, the one that is a little bit in Kansas, a little bit in Missouri, and the town that is just a few short miles away from Independence, Missouri.
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These Shoes Were Made for Running
The Power of the Repetitive Object Last week I released a post about the commemoration surrounding the Boston Marathon bombing. Upon reading the post Professor Harvey Green, one of my mentors, communicated an interesting observation. So, I decided to create this follow up post in response…
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Running Towards History
239 years ago Paul Revere took his famous ride from Boston to the countryside 174 years ago Irish immigrants sought refuge in Boston from the potato famine 96 years ago the Red Sox won the World Series and wouldn’t win it again for 86 years 54 years ago the first Catholic, Boston’s John F. Kennedy Jr., was elected…
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