Superintendent of Independence National Historical Park to Retire
Superintendent of Independence National Historical Park (INHP) Cynthia MacLeod has announced her retirement date of April 3, 2023. She is […]
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Plans for New President Lincoln Museum in Washington, DC
The National Park Service (NPS) announced on Monday, February 20, plans to add an immersive museum beneath the Lincoln Memorial. […]
National Park Service Awards Grant to Study Women’s History in DC
Last month, the National Park serviced awarded a $50,000 grant to Washington DC to fund a study of women’s history […]
NPS Debating Names for Outdoor Portion of Delaware’s National Park
Delaware’s First State National Historic Park, designated in 2014, comprises many of the state’s historic landmarks. The park includes the […]
New issue of The Public Historian commemorates 100th anniversary of the National Park Service
The National Park Service celebrates its 100th birthday this year. A special issue of The Public Historian looks back over those 100 years and to the future.
Rutgers University Center for Urban Policy Research Releases Annual Report on Economic Impact of Federal Historic Tax Credit
Projects certified through the National Park Service’s Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program in Fiscal Year 2015 contributed more than $9.4 billion in output in terms of goods and services to the U.S. economy, and added $4.8 billion in gross domestic product, according to an analysis by the Rutgers University Center for Urban Policy Research.
New Jersey Studies Releases Summer 2016 Issue
New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal showcases academic talks, reviews, articles and more.
Memorials for the Future Competition in DC
NPS, NCPC and Van Alen Institute are collaborating on Memorials for the Future–an ideas competition to reimagine how we think about, feel, and experience memorials.
NPS Northeast Region Interpretive Workshop
The National Park Service Northeast Region Interpretive Workshop, “Making Connections Through Active Engagement,” for the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor will take place on March 30-April 1, 2016.
Reconstructing Reconstruction: Post-Bellum Public History in the Smithsonian and National Park Systems
The September 2016 opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture offers a timely opportunity to evaluate how existing branches of the Smithsonian represent the era of Reconstruction, a period about which public opinion “matters more than most historical subjects” because “it forces us to think about what kind of society we wish America to be,” according to historian Eric Foner in a March 2015 Op-Ed in the New York Times.