New York Museum Highlights Victorian-era ‘Rebel Women’
A new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York highlights city women who bucked the rigid gender […]
Lucy Davis
Lucy Davis is the digital media coordinator at MARCH. She is pursuing a masters in Public History at Rutgers University-Camden.
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Preserving NJ’s Amusement Park History
The new owner of the Gingerbread Castle in Hamburg, Sussex County has begun an extensive restoration project on the structure, which was once the centerpiece of a small fairy tale themed amusement park.
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New Exhibit Brings 32-Foot Viking Ship to Franklin Institute
The Eik Sande, a 32-foot replica of an ancient Viking ship, was installed in the museum in advance of their new exhibit, Vikings: Beyond the Legend.
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Philadelphia’s Inga Saffron Wins Vincent Scully Prize
Saffron, who pens the Philadelphia Inquirer’s “Changing Skyline” architecture critique column, shares the prize with the Boston Globe’s Robert Campbell.
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New Director for Wolf Humanities Center
Film Historian Karen Redrobe is the new director of the Wolf Humanities Center. She plans to expand public programming and make it more inclusive.
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New Jersey Historic Trust Awards $1 Million in Preservation Grants
Grants will be used for assessment and interpretation of thirty three historic sites across the Garden State, including libraries, fire stations, private residences, and historic districts.
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NJ Council for Humanities Hosts Public Scholars Project
The Public Scholars Project will hold free, public, one- to two-hour events in nine of New Jersey’s twelve congressional districts.
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New NYHS Exhibit Explores Black Citizenship
Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow examines the period following the Civil War as the nation’s black community struggled to be recognized as full citizens.
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Jan Ellen Lewis, Historian and Rutgers Dean, Dies
Lewis was a nationally renowned scholar of Colonial and Early American history and a member of the Rutgers community since 1977. She became dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers-Newark in 2013.
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Philadelphia City Archives to Reopen at New Location
The archives is now located at Fifth and Spring Garden Streets, within the new, 70,000 square foot Yards Brewing Co. complex.