From the buildings on our block to the quilt on our couch, we interact with history daily. Yet too often we ignore our historical landscape in favor of formal texts. In this session, we challenge this trend with techniques to help us read the objects around us. Chair: Mindy Farmer, Director, May 4 Visitors Center at Kent State University, Kent, OH. Download at: http://resource.aaslh.org/view/new-ways-to-read-old-objects/