History Workshop finale features 'Content Trumps Business' talk

7:54 a.m., May 3, 2016--This semester’s History Workshop series at the University of Delaware, marking its 40th anniversary, will conclude on Tuesday, May 10, with a talk by John Gray, the Elizabeth MacMillan Director of the National Museum of American History. 

The session will begin with a reception at noon of light food and beverages, followed by the lecture from 12:30-1:45 p.m. The event will be held in the Class of 1941 Lecture Room in Morris Library on the UD campus and is free and open to the public.

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Gray’s talk, “Content Trumps Business,” will focus on the business of museums, which he defines as “content, content, content.” While conventional wisdom today is that business people can manage nonprofits, Gray will argue that it is the ways in which the mind works — that is, strategically, thoughtfully and inclusively — that matters. 

Understanding the basic principles of economics, finance and organizational theory are important, he says, but they pale in comparison to content. 

This special, culminating History Workshop is co-sponsored by the University of Delaware Library and the Department of History.