Historic Preservation Advocate Joyce Matz Dies at 92
Matz’s successful campaigns include the 1978 landmark designation of the interior of Town Hall in New York’s theatre district and St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church.
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Preserving New York History by Dry Cleaning Its Oldest Maps
A group of workers at the Municipal Archives in Manhattan have set about the urgent task of preserving the city’s oldest treasures.
Call for Applications: Columbia University 2017 IRAAS Summer Institute, “Black Activist New York"
The Columbia University Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS) is now accepting applications for its 2017 Summer Teachers and Scholars Institute.
University of Rochester Acquires Newly-discovered Women's Suffrage Archive
The archive includes letters written by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone and Isabella Beecher Hooker.
7th Annual Public History Community Forum Draws Capacity Crowd to Philadelphia
The 7th Annual Public History Community Forum was held Wednesday, March 8, 2017, in Franklin Hall of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.
American Jewish History Institutions in Philadelphia, New York Co-organize '1917,' First Exhibition of Its Kind
‘1917: How One Year Changed the World’ is a collaboration between the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia and the American Jewish Historical Society in New York.
‘See You in the Streets’–Art and Public History Q&A with Artist and Author Ruth Sergel
Q&A with author, artist, and agitator Ruth Sergel about her arts, humanities, public history, and social activism practice, writing ‘See You in the Streets,’ and more.
New-York Historical Society Women's History Gallery Inaugural Exhibition Celebrates Dolley Madison as 'powerful force'
Saving Washington, the inaugural exhibition in the Joyce B. Cowin Women’s History Gallery at the New-York Historical Society, opens March 8, 2017.
Bard Graduate Center Focus Projects Series Expands with Two New Exhibitions
Chinese material culture and the first world’s fair held in the U.S. will be exhibited.
March 11th: Harriet Tubman Day Celebrations in Delaware, Opening of National Park in Maryland
The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center, Cambridge, Md, opens March 11, as Delaware celebrates Harriet Tubman Day.