App helps preserve Maryland's Scenic Byways
The Maryland Department of Planning and State Highway Administration have developed the Scenic Byways Resource Protection Application, a GIS-based mapping tool.
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Exhibit: Investigating Where We Live
From the National Building Museum: In 1996 the National Building Museum instituted Investigating Where we Live, a program bringing together middle […]
NPS Awards $1.3M in Battlefield Preservation Grants
The American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) has awarded $1.359 million in grants to 21 projects. The monies will be used in the preservation and protection of battlefield lands in 14 states.
2013 National Humanities Medals announced
On Tuesday, July 22, President Obama announced the names of the 2013 National Humanities Medal recipients, recognized for outstanding achievements in history, cultural studies, filmmaking, cultural commentary, and historic preservation.
Princeton to open map exhibition Nova Caesarea
Princeton University Library will open a map exhibition, “Nova Caesarea: A Cartographic Record of the Garden State, 1666-1888” (PDF) at its Firestone Library on August 15, 2014.
Arcadia Publishing buys The History Press
From Publisher’s Weekly: It was announced earlier this month that Arcadia Publishing purchased The History Press Inc, the U.S. subsidiary […]
Searching for a usable past in the Hudson Valley
I passed a wonderful late June week traveling the Hudson River Valley from the Vanderbilt estate in Hyde Park, New York, south along alternating banks of the Hudson to the Edward Hopper house and museum in Nyack. In addition to the 3rd generation Vanderbilts with their (inherited) railroad fortune, my husband and I explored the architectural and material legacy of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt, financial speculator Jay Gould, West Point, the Loyalist and slaveholding Philips family, 3 generations of Rockefellers, artist/inventor Samuel F. B. Morse, the writer Washington Irving, and artists Edward and Josephine N. Hopper.
NJHC offers grant workshops
The New Jersey Historical Commission will hold three workshops for its upcoming grant round. Representatives of New Jersey’s historical organizations are invited to attend a free workshop.
Wendy Bellion to give Charles C. Eldredge Prize Lecture
Wendy Bellion will give the Charles C. Eldredge lecture, “Here Trust Your Eyes’: Visual Illusion and the Early American Theater” in September.
AASLH Announces Leadership in History Award Winners
Fourteen individuals and organizations from the mid-Atlantic region have been named as recipients of the American Association of Local and State History’s Leadership in History Awards.