Stephanie Ryberg-Webster is Associate Professor of Urban Affairs in the Levin College of Public Affairs & Education at Cleveland State University. This interview is based on her new book, Preserving the Vanishing City: Historic Preservation amid Urban Decline in Cleveland,...
Philip Levy is Professor of History at the University of South Florida. This interview is based on his new book, The Permanent Resident: Excavations and Explorations of George Washington’s Life (University of Virginia Press, 2022). JF: What led you to...
The money will go to Houston’s Freedmen’s Town, Martha Vineyard’s African American Heritage Trail, Historic Athens (Georgia), Denver’s Black American West Museum and Heritage Center, Cherokee State Resort Historical Park (KY), Fort Monroe (VA), Asbury United Methodist Church (DC), Roberts...
Mount Vernon CEO Douglas Bradburn defends the view from George Washington’s estate. [vimeo 277178807 w=640 h=360] Learn more here. Nice work, Doug!...
It was the place where thousands of New Orleans residents sought shelter during Hurricane Katrina. It is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Here is a taste of a piece at CNN: The National Register designation includes protections...
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia does not want its churches designated as historical landmarks. This is a very interesting story at the intersection of public history/preservation and religion. Learn more at the Philadelphia Inquirer: The first time Celeste Morello succeeded in getting a...
Larry Cebula If you don’t read Larry Cebula‘s blog “Northwest History,” you really should. In my opinion, Cebula, who teaches public history at Eastern Washington University in Spokane, is one of the most interesting public historians in the blogopshere today....
Messiah College: A New Kind of History DepartmentFeaturing Messiah Student Alyssa Vorbeck [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udsymvBlIsk]...
Michael Beschloss has an interesting piece at The New York Times called “The Near Death, and Revival, of Monticello.” Read this article to find out what can happen to historic properties when their fate is determined by the real estate market. Jefferson’s heirs...
At least five of the teachers in Princeton for the Gilder-Lehrman “13 Colonies” seminar brought this New York Times article to my attention earlier this week. Historians Margaret Bendroth and James Fenimore Cooper Jr. are traveling throughout New England trying to...
Here are numbers 1-5:The New Jersey Palisades in Bergen and Hudson Counties: Asher Woolman Homestead in Westampton Township, Burlington County: Community of Fortescue in Downe Township, Cumberland County: Maplewood Post Office in Maplewood Township, Essex County: Church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Union County, Hudson...
Here is a rap about the National Register of Historic Places written and performed by historic preservation students at the University of Mary Washington. It looks like a professor also makes an appearance. Enjoy and learn. HT: AHA Today [youtube […]
The editors of History@Work and The Public Historian need some help in determining the top 15 articles on historical preservation published in The Public Historian. They are asking readers to nominate the most thought-provoking or insightful articles about historic preservation...
Every now and then a high school student from the local community asks if I would allow them to “job shadow” me. I try to go out of my way to make the experience a positive one for these students...
The local ABC affiliate in Augusta, GA reports on a very interesting effort to preserve one of the country’s oldest African American churches. Check out the story here. http://WJBF.images.worldnow.com/interface/js/WNVideo.js?rnd=685661;hostDomain=www.wjbf.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=385;isShowIcon=true;clipId=9280264;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixedhttp://WJBF.images.worldnow.com/interface/js/WNVideo.js?rnd=974009;hostDomain=www.wjbf.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=385;isShowIcon=true;clipId=9280264;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixedhttp://WJBF.images.worldnow.com/interface/js/WNVideo.js?rnd=913390;hostDomain=www.wjbf.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=385;isShowIcon=true;clipId=9280264;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixedWJBF-TV ABC 6 Augusta-Aiken News, Weather, Sports...
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Partners in Preservation, a program that awards grants to historic places across the country, has $1 million dollars to give to a historic site in the Washington D.C. metro area. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM6tkGzPezc] Who should get the money? Vote here. So...
Wounded Knee, the site where hundreds of Lakota Indians were killed in a “battle” with the United States Army’s 7th Cavalry in 1890, is for sale. The price tag is $3.9 million. Joseph Brings Plenty, a former chairman of the...
He is teaching Civil War history in a federal prison. As Michael Lynch reminds us at his blog Past in the Present, the corrupt former Illinois governor’s love of Civil War history is quite ironic when you consider that while […]
Hinchliffe Stadium, Paterson, NJ They are: The Camden Ampitheatre and Public Library, Camden, ME Camp Nelson Historic and Archeological District, Jessamine County, KY Edmund Pettis Bridge, Selma, AL Harriett Beecher Stowe House, Hartford, CT Old San Juan Historic District, San […]
