How can material objects help us better understand the complex, contested, and sometimes contradictory history of philanthropy? This question guides the new special issue of The Public Historian, “Material Culture as a Methodology for the History of Philanthropy,” guest edited by Amanda Moniz. Moniz
By Caetlin Benson-Allott, author of The Stuff of Spectatorship: Material Cultures of Film and TelevisionThis guest post is part of our #SCMS2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more.In January 2018, Vice reporter Emerson Rosenthal observed that “watching The X-Files