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Historian Jane Kamensky is the new president at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello

John Fea   |  October 18, 2023

Kamensky comes to Charlottesville from Harvard University’s history department. Here is the press release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the private nonprofit that owns and operates Monticello, is pleased to announce the appointment of Jane Kamensky, Ph.D., as […]

Climate change at Jamestown

John Fea   |  May 11, 2022

The National Trust for Historic Preservation just placed it on a list of the country’s most endangered places. Here is Michael Ruane at The Washington Post: The dig site where archaeologist Sean Romo has just found the ancient fragment of […]

What is going on at James Madison’s Montpelier?

John Fea   |  March 29, 2022

Here is Gregory Scheneider at The Washington Post: James Madison’s Montpelier estatedrew national attention last year when the board that manages the historic home announced plans to share authority equally with descendants of people who were once enslaved there. But […]

Pennsylvania governor Thomas Wolf invests $4 million in York African-American History & Lecture Center

John Fea   |  February 27, 2022

Here is the press release: Governor Tom Wolf today visited the future site of the Crispus Attucks York African American History & Lecture Center which received a $4 million state investment through the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP) in downtown […]

Colonial Williamsburg has a massive fundraising year

John Fea   |  February 12, 2022

Here is Williamsburg-Yorktown Daily: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation announced that Colonial Williamsburg (CW) received a record $102 million from donors in 2021. The amount is an increase of 42 percent over the previous record of $72 million set in 2019. Last year’s total includes […]

The Georgia Historical Society reopens with major upgrades

John Fea   |  January 28, 2022

The Georgia Historical Society research center just reopened after a $5 million upgrade. This looks like great news for researchers and historians of Georgia. Here is a taste of Benjamin Payne’s piece at The Current: The Georgia Historical Society’s research […]

Erin Bartram does history

John Fea   |  September 7, 2021

Longtime listeners of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast may remember our interview with historian Erin Bartram in Episode 37: “Should You Go Grad School?” In that episode we discussed Bartram’s February 2018 blog post “The Sublimated Grief of […]

The descendants of enslaved persons at James Madison’s Montpelier will now share in the governance of the site

John Fea   |  June 19, 2021

This is unprecedented. Here is a taste of the Montpelier’s press release: In a first-ever milestone for museums and historic sites that are former places of enslavement, The Montpelier Foundation (TMF) board of directors voted Wednesday, based on a proposal […]