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NYC’s Tenement Museum shows that we’re all history in the making

The Tenement Museum

What is history? A musket shot during America’s colonial era? The Moors’ march into Europe? The construction of Giza’s first awe-inspiring pyramid? Yes, yes, and yes. But history isn’t simply large, globe-changing brushstrokes; its many smaller moments, too. I, of course, knew that, but The Tenement Museum gave new life to those more intimate happenings. …