Bravo to Doug Greenberg's display of what a good historian can do with a
few assertions. Wright and Weatherford have made good popular books that
can give new insights to the way history is made from myriad threads but
Doug Greenberg shows clearly why getting to source material is always more
fun. The sense that America is a composite history and culture is a popular
view that certainly is empowering to all of our present-day communities and
museums are directing themselves to the community with team-approach
efforts, interactivity, etc. The need, however,  for continued accurate
scholarship that comes from specialists, historians, curators, etc. and the
need for that to be the center of museum programming  is amply demonstrated
by Mr. Greenberg's comments and demonstration.
 
Paul Apodaca
Bowers Museum
Santa Ana, CA
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