Recordings for Discovering Our Ancestors and Preserving Historic Gravesites Series Part 1 took place on April 12, 2023, Part 2 on May 10, 2023, Part 3 is scheduled for June 21. Register here . Series Description: The National Trust and National Park Service National Center...
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The deadline for submitting comments on the Traditional Cultural Property NPS Bulletin is April 30. Learn more and submit comments . In 2021 the United States Department of the Interior swore in Deb Haaland as the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet Secretary . A member of the...
In the lead-up to their 50th anniversary in 2021, Landmarks Illinois formed a task force to create a new set of guiding principles to help them move preservation forward. The goal: to share their work with others in the preservation movement nationwide. However, as Bonnie McDonald, president ...
This summer, I was awarded the 2022 Pocantico Fellowship, a joint research fellowship awarded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the National Trust for Historic Preservation . My proposal, “Stigmatized Land: Central State Hospital’s Unmarked Cemetery,” looks at the literature behind...
Part of our series on expanding the narrative of Brown v. Board of Education. This webinar took place on May 17, 2022. As part of the work of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund , we are commemorating the 68th anniversary of Brown v....
Slideshow BvB TEP Center.pdf
This webinar took place on March 30, 2022 As part of the work of the National Trust’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, the Trust has been working to expand the narrative around the Supreme Court case that came to be known as Brown v. Board of Education. While often thought of...
BvB A Tale of 3 Delaware Schools (March 30, 2022) SlideDeck.pdf
In 2020, as the covid epidemic raged, black lives continued to be lost to police brutality, and systemic racism and entrenched white supremacy became impossible to ignore, many historic preservation organizations across the country carved out the time, resources, and discomfort to put matters of...
During a 2021 interview I did with author and poet Clint Smith , we discussed the origin of the title of his book How the Word is Passed. In that conversation he said, “For many people, history is not about empirical evidence. It is not about primary source documents. It is about a story that...
By Chris Morris, Rena Zurofsky, and Scott Mehaffey This past year laid bare our growing racial and economic inequities, but also systemic societal inequities that disproportionately affect women of all identities and backgrounds. While we celebrated women’s leadership skills and political...
By Katherine Malone-France On Main Street in New Iberia, Louisiana, there is a restaurant called Preservation. The first time I ate there, I asked the bartender about the reason for the name and he said, “Everything we do here is about the process of preservation.” He meant, of course, the...