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The Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, a clay fragment of a part of The Epic of Gilgamesh, was looted from Iraq after the United States' invasion in 2003 and bought by Hobby Lobby in 2017 for the Museum of the Bible. It was repatriated to Iraq in 2021.

"The Gilgamesh Dream tablet. From Iraq. Middle Babylonian Period, First Sealand Dynasty, 1732-1460 BCE. Iraq Museum, Baghdad" by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped from original. The tablet was looted from Iraq post-2003 and illegally purchased by Hobby Lobby for the Museum of the Bible in 2017. The museum repatriated it in 2021.

Render unto Hobby Lobby: A Website Review of museumofthebible.org

A blog post I wrote for Introduction to Museums: History and Professional Practice, a graduate class at the University of Delaware.

What Does it Mean to “Have Died of Dysentery”?: Teaching the American Antebellum Period through Games in a New Jersey High School

For my Master's degree from the Universidad Alcalá de Henares, Spain, I crafted an original curriculum for a New Jersey high school that combined traditional teaching methods with tabletop and computer games.

A screenshot of the Apple II computer game "The Oregon Trail" (1990), with the message "John has died."

Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC), The Oregon Trail, Apple II, 1990. Screenshot by the author.

A black and white illustration of Philadelphia's "Pennsylvania Hall" on fire.

"Destruction by fire of Pennsylvania Hall, the new building of the Abolition Society, on the night of the 17th May." Library of Congress

“A Hall of Patriotism for the Union”: Lyceums and the Limitations of Public Discourse, 1825-1845

My senior honors thesis from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) examined these nineteenth-century "TED Talks," and how they weren't always as free-thinking as their planners may have hoped...

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