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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...

Hamilton and slavery at the Schuyler Mansion

John Fea   |  October 30, 2020

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...

Gettysburg Confederate monuments to get new panels to offer more historical context

John Fea   |  August 12, 2020

Here is Nolan Simmons at Penn Live: Panels will soon be installed near each of 12 Confederate state monuments at Gettysburg National Military Park to offer visitors more context to understand when and under what circumstances they were erected. The...

African-Americans at Colonial Williamsburg

John Fea   |  March 4, 2019

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

John Fea   |  August 23, 2018

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:...

New Book: *Interpreting Religion at Museums and Historic Sites*

John Fea   |  August 20, 2018

If you are interested in the relationship between American religious history, museums, historical sites, and public history, I highly recommend that you get a copy (or ask your library to order a copy) of Gretchen Buggeln’s and Barbara Franco’s new...

A Museum Veteran Writes About Historical Thinking at Historical Sites

John Fea   |  June 7, 2018

My friend Tim Grove spent the first part of his career working for the Smithsonian.  He recently left his post at the Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. and started a history consulting business.  This will also give him more...

Race, Slavery, and Historical Interpreters

John Fea   |  March 29, 2018

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...

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