By Carolyn Wallace What does it mean to host a military reenactment in the 21 st century? Cliveden , a National Trust Historic Site located in the Germantown neighborhood of Northwest Philadelphia, began consistently hosting reenactments of the Revolutionary War Battle of Germantown in 1977....
Filmed and produced by Shannon Lawrence In 2014 David Young, then the executive director of Cliveden , wrote about a new play that explored the life of the enslaved and free people that had once lived at this Germantown Avenue home in Philadelphia. Developed by the staff of the ...
Table Of Contents Introduction: The Call for a National Conversation by James Vaughan Historic House Museums: An Embarrassment of Riches? by Marian A. Godfrey Crisis or Transition? Diagnosing Success at Historic Sites by Max A. van Balgooy Funding the...
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by Libbie Hawes For the last two decades, historic sites around the country have been engaged in a steady, thoughtful discussion about slavery and race. This conversation isn’t always comfortable or easy, but it happens consistently and it happens with the authenticity and veracity...
A few years ago in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Upsala, one of the neighborhood’s 13 historic house museums, watched its attendance dwindle along with its endowment as it worked to address deferred maintenance and rising costs. With the difficulties it was facing, the Upsala...
The Forum on Historic Site Stewardship in the 21st Century, held in April 2007 at Kykuit, was a significant event for historic site professionals, giving leaders in the field the chance to air concerns and propose responses. This special issue of Forum Journal will first present the report...
David W. Young Cast of “Liberty to Go to See” on steps of Cliveden. | Credit: David Young I have never had such a sense of—the only word I can think of is— the "beingness" of a place...
By Walter Gallas Can historical events be revisited? Stories retold? Of course they can, especially as new information comes to light, and we find better ways to bring broader perspectives to the endeavor. Such is the case at Cliveden, a National Trust site and National Historic...