historical sites

Climate change at Jamestown

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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?

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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...

Colonial Williamsburg has a massive fundraising year

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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

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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

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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...

Hamilton and slavery at the Schuyler Mansion

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Here is Indiana Nash’s piece at The Daily Gazette, a newspaper that covers the Albany region: The Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site is working to parse fact from fiction when it comes to Alexander Hamilton’s role as an enslaver. While...

African-Americans at Colonial Williamsburg

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The Virginia Gazette is running an informative piece on interpreting the African-American experience at Colonial Williamsburg.  Here is a taste: Established in 1926, Colonial Williamsburg opened its first public site in 1932. Though African-American interpretation wouldn’t start in earnest as a fleshed...

New York City’s Sons of Liberty

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Over at Boston 1775, J.L. Bell calls our attention to a new exhibit at the Fraunces Tavern Museum in lower Manhattan.  It is titled “Fear & Force: New York City’s Sons of Liberty.” Here is a taste of Bell’s post:...

Race, Slavery, and Historical Interpreters

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Over at The Outline, Zoe Beery writes about Cheyney McKnight, an African American historical interpreter at Historic Richmond Town on Staten Island. Here is a taste: Over the last ten years, McKnight has built a career as a living historian who...