The Future of the Past at the Delaware Historical Society
A conversation with Delaware Historical Society’s new director, David W. Young, about his career move, his plans for the society, and the relevance of a public history to public life.
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University of Maryland and Archaeology in Annapolis Collaborate in Research at Wye House
Recent excavations at Wye House, where Frederick Douglass was enslaved, demonstrate how archaeology is both contributing to new scholarly understandings of the African American experience and becoming a more public enterprise.
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The Museum of Chinese in America: Continuity and Change
In its 37-year history, the Museum of Chinese in America has evolved from activist-inspired community organization to major cultural institution, even as its staff has maintained the museum’s original vision and core values.
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The (Uncertain) Fate of Baltimore’s Confederate Monuments
Over the last year, a commission in Baltimore has wrestled with the presence of Confederate monuments in the city. In this month’s feature, Elizabeth Nix (pictured above with the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument) reflects on her service on the commission.
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Redevelopment Achieves Mixed Results at Historic Site in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Chloe Taft’s book From Steel to Slots: Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City opens new avenues for evaluating the redevelopment of the massive steel manufacturing site in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, following the plant’s shutdown in 1995. In the years leading up to the 2009 opening of the Sands Casino in that spot, MARCH invested in the effort to realize an historical interpretation of the site.
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Baltimore and the National Council on Public History Annual Conference
Sharing Baltimore’s history is essential work, necessary to make sense of the past, present, and future and to both understand and negotiate the racial divides that still mark every street corner and corner store in the city.
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Mill Stories: Deindustrialization as Public History
Public historians at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) accepted the challenge of collecting video oral histories of workers associated with Bethlehem Steel’s Sparrows Point, Maryland plant, and company town right after the plant’s owner went bankrupt and closed it in 2012.
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Rethinking New Jersey’s Whitall House
Jennifer Janofsky offers an insider’s view of the Whitall House (pictured above) at Red Bank Battlefield Park in New Jersey.
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Author Interview: Interpreting LGBT History
Susan Ferentinos, author of Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites, is interviewed by CrossTies contributing editor Linda Shopes.
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Clement Price: Master Crafter of a Vital Public Square
Clement A. Price, who died November 5, 2014, following a stroke, compiled an extraordinary record of public humanities work that serves as inspiration for practitioners across the region and beyond.