I, Too, Sing America: Integrating the voices of all Americans in historic preservation
01 January 2016 – Darlene Taylor 10
storytelling, preservation, art, public engagement, education, race, National Historic Preservation Act, diversity, National Historic Preservation Act commemoration, creative writing
Editor’s note: This post concludes a series commemorating the anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act by examining a part article published in The Public Historian, describing its significance and relating it to contemporary conversations in historic preservation.
Historic preservation exists to tell stories of our journeys as a people and as a nation, but somehow along the way the stories of America’s African American, Latino, Asian, and Native American communities are erased or obscured as historians and preservationists tell the great American story. Read More