historic preservation

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/22/2020
  

  U.K. Conservation Society Details Links to Colonialism and Slavery

  The British historic preservation agency has begun to grapple with how to present the historic connections between properties it manages and fortunes built through slavery and colonialism.

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• SOURCE: National Parks Traveler
  9/16/2020
  

  Ed Bearss, Past Chief Historian Of National Park Service, Dies At 97

  Ed Bearss was one of the most important figures in the preservation of Civil War battlefields as sites for the American public to learn about history.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  9/10/2020
  

  History and Gentrification Clash in a Gilded Age Resort

  A proposal to redevelop a section of Newport, Rhode Island far from the city's typical tourist destinations has generated an unlikely alliance of low-income residents who fear displacement and affluent historic preservation advocates. 

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• SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times
  9/1/2020
  

  Emmett Till’s Home, a Launching Pad for the Civil Rights Movement, Deserves Landmark Status

  Landmark status would further honor Emmett and Mamie Till’s tragic but critical role in American history.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/1/2020
  

  2020 is a Year for the History Books, But not Without Digital Archives

  by Ian Milligan

  A Canadian historian suggests that the national government commit to a massive effort to archive the entire .ca domain on a daily basis to enable future researchers to access the full volume of digital artifacts produced by Canadians. 

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• SOURCE: Washingtonian
  8/24/2020
  

  Are Your Tweets Historic? Meet the Librarians Who Decide.

  The Library of Congress's Web Department works to archive tweets and ephemeral websites that are significant to today's society so they are not lost to history. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  8/17/2020
  

  Read Thousands of Abraham Lincoln’s Newly Transcribed Letters Online

  The missives, preserved by the Library of Congress, include notes to and from the beloved president.

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• SOURCE: artdaily
  8/12/2020
  

  A Black Nurse Saved Lives. Today She May Save Art

  Graduate student Laura Voisin George discovered an image of Biddy Mason, a Black woman born in slavery who became a founding figure in Los Angeles's African American history, in a set of WPA murals in an auditorium at the University of California-San Francisco. The discovery may help preserve the murals. 

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• SOURCE: Jersey Digs
  7/24/2020
  

  Old Jail Could Inspire Youth to Stay Out of Prison — but Only If It Survives

  What better way to enshrine the lessons we’ve learned from decades of mass incarceration than by transforming the remnants of Newark’s first penitentiary into a gathering place — be it a museum or community center — that might bring about the end of a problematic legacy.

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• SOURCE: WTOP
  7/15/2020
  

  Maryland Civil War Sites Receive $5.1M Grants To Preserve History, Support Tourism

  Thirteen Civil War Heritage areas have been awarded more than $5.1 million in grants to help support improvement projects in the state of Maryland.

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• SOURCE: Columbus Dispatch
  5/18/2020
  

  Columbus Historian Hits Streets in Search of African American Stories

  Rita Fuller-Yates earned a bachelor's degree in history and worked in corporate America and as a lifestyle columnist. But now she's a fierce avocate for memorializing one of Ohio's black leaders (and the history of African Americans in Columbus) on the grounds of the Statehouse.

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• SOURCE: Southern Maryland Chronicle
  5/18/2020
  

  Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture Announces $1 Million In Funding for Preservation Projects

  The Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture (MCAAHC) announces $1 million in available funds for African American preservation projects throughout the state of Maryland.

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• SOURCE: WCMU
  5/1/2020
  

  'Fresh Air' Remembers Jazz Archivist And Historian Michael Cogswell

  Michael Cogswell was a musician and historian who managed the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens. He was interviewed by Fresh Air in 2001.

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• SOURCE: National Parks Service
  4/27/2020
  

  National Park Service Awards More than $3.1 Million in Grants to Preserve and Interpret World War II Japanese American Confinement Sites

  The 22 projects funded will help tell the stories of the more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II following the attack on Pearl Harbor by the nation of Japan in 1941.

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  4/27/2020
  

  $500,000 Federal Grant Awarded to Former “Americus Colored Hospital”

  The National Park Service and Historic Preservation Fund awarded the grant to an Americus preservation group to create a new civil rights museum in the original building of a Jim Crow-era hospital that served the black population of southwest Georgia.

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• SOURCE: KRWG
  4/27/2020
  

  Retired NMSU Professor's Blog Offers A Road Trip Through U.S. History

  Retired history professor Jon Hunner's blog is a travelogue of a 60,000 mile journey to visit the National Parks system. 

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• SOURCE: Upworthy
  4/28/2020
  

  75 Years Ago, the U.S. Blew Up a Giant Swastika in Nazi Germany and it's Still so Satisfying to Watch

  Local authorities in Nurnberg recently voted to conserve (not rebuild or renovate) the site of some of Hitler's most notorious speeches.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  4/13/2020
  

  Race Against Time: Saving the Largest Archive of Chinese American History From Fire

  In January, a fire tore through an historic building in the heart of Manhattan's Chinatown, threatening to engulf decades of artifacts documenting Chinese life in the US.

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• SOURCE: MassLive
  4/14/2020
  

  World War II-Era Planes at Cape Cod Airfield Vandalized, Sustain at Least $15,000 in Damages

  The airport added, “Doing this to an aircraft is the equivalent to pushing down a World War II veteran just to watch him fall.”

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• SOURCE: CNN
  3/8/2020
  

  New Orleans Cultural Historian Died of Coronavirus, But His Family Only Found Out on the Day of Funeral

  "I want to educate the world about our great culture," Ron Lewis wrote on the museum's website. "How we do this, and why we are so successful at it even though the economics say we ain't supposed to be."