FALL 2011
Museums, Memorials, and Sites of Conscience

• From the President, Douglas Simpson
• From the Editor, Gretchen Jennings
• Exhibits Newsline, by Beth Redmond-Jones
• Taking Risks: A Common Theme for the Winners of the 23rd Annual Excellence in Exhibition Competition by Rita Mukherjee Hoffstadt
• Sites of Conscience: Connecting Past to Present, Memory to Action by Sarah Pharaon, Bix Gabriel, and Liz Ševcenko
• Exhibiting 9/11: Interpreting Archaeology and Memory at the World Trade Center Site by Ian Kerrigan
• When a Boxcar Isn’t a Boxcar: Designing for Human Rights Learning by Stacey Mann and Danny M. Cohen, PhD
• Challenging Visitors to Move from Memory to Action at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Bridget Conley-Zilkic and Nancy Gillette
• When the Evidence Changes: Scholarship, Memory, and Public Culture at the Maison des Esclaves, Gorée Island by Deborah L. Mack, Ph.D
• Can Museums Take a Stand? by Sarah Bartlett
• Challenges in Building a Memorial Site: The Experiences of Jalladkhana Killing Field by Mofidul Hoqu
• The Collective or the Individual? Considering Ukrainian Memorial Museums by Linda Norris and Olesia Ostrovka
• The Morality of Memory by Rama Lakshmi
• Nuts and Bolts: If You Must…..by James P. Folsom
• Exhibition Studies: Outside the Box: Creative Partnerships for Archival Work, Exhibitions, and Teaching by Carla J. Sofka, Connie Frisbee Houde, and Sudarat Musikawong
• Exhibition Critiques: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC by Abbie Chessler, Tricia Edwards, and James B. Gardner
• Book Review: Heritage That Hurts: Tourists in the Memoryscapes of September 11 Reviewed by Wendy Aibel-Weiss
• Twenty-Fourth Annual Excellence in Exhibition Competition
• Call for Entries: 2012 Excellence in Exhibition Label Writing Competition
• NAME Fellows at AAM: Insights from the Future by Nina Simon
• 2012 AAM Annual Meeting Student and Professional Fellowships