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What I learned on my (public history) summer vacation
Participants gathered for a farewell photo on the final day of the seminar on the campus of Shanghai Normal University. Photo credit: Chen Xin This summer I traveled to Shanghai, China, with a group of...
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Revealing slavery’s legacy at a public university in the south (Part 3)
Homepage of the “Slavery at South Carolina College” website. In the final post of this series, we consider how the “Slavery at South Carolina College” project has been received. The most important...
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How should NCPH commemorate the past and help shape the future of federal...
A National Park Service ranger gives a talk about the Liberty Bell to tourists, Independence Hall, July 1951. Photo credit: Abbie Rowe (National Park Service), Wikimedia Commons. The year 2016 is a...
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How should NCPH commemorate the past and help shape the future of federal...
Editors’ Note: In 2016, the National Park Service will mark the 100th anniversary of its founding, and the National Historic Preservation Act will have been in effect for 50 years. These two landmark...
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Fragile history in a gentrifying neighborhood
Valetta Anderson at an Atlanta Studies Network event in 2014. Photo credit: David Rotenstein Over the past few years, I have been writing about gentrification and how it intersects with history in an...
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Public history student swaps mobcap for hard hat
Willowbank students squaring and carving stone. Photo credit: Juliana Glassco It is often said that everyone should work in the customer service industry at some point in their lives so that they can...
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Place-based epistemology: This is your brain on historic sites
Wilder Homestead Hill, South Dakota. Photo credit: Michelle McClellan The summer before last, I found myself driving around the back roads of DeSmet, South Dakota, with people I barely knew but with...
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Why do old places matter?
“As I settle in a place, the place settles me.” Juhani Pallasmma, Forum Journal (Spring 2015) More than fifteen months ago, my colleague at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Tom Mayes,...
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Robert M. Utley: Founder of the National Historic Preservation Program
Editor’s note: This post continues a series commemorating the anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act by examining a past article published in The Public Historian, describing its...
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Interpreting the past, wrestling with the present
Chicago’s Jane Addams Homes opened in 1938 during the first wave of public housing construction by the federal government. Jane Addams, whose Hull House Settlement stood less than one mile away,...
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