Rebirth: Creating the Museum of the Reconstruction Era and the future of house museums

This week we'll be talking with Dr. Jennifer Whitmer Taylor of Duquesne University about her book, Rebirth: Creating the Museum of the Reconstruction Era and the Future of the House Museum (2025, University of SC Press).In Rebirth, Taylor provides a compelling account of how to reenvision the historic house museum. Using the Museum of the Reconstruction Era—known as the Woodrow Wilson Family Home for most of its many years as a house museum—as a case study, Taylor explores the challenges and possibilities that face public history practitioners and museum professionals who provide complex interpretations of contested public memory.

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Rebirth: Creating the Museum of the Reconstruction Era and the future of house museums is an episode from Walter Edgar's Journal by South Carolina Public Radio.

This episode is 43:00 long.

This episode was published on Nov 21, 2025.

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