An uneasy fit: History in historic preservation

03 February 2015 – Liz Almlie 1

Editor’s note: This post continues a series commemorating the anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act by examining a past article published in The Public Historian, describing its significance, and relating it to contemporary conversations in historic preservation.

Eleven years after earning a 1966 PhD in history from Washington State University, J. Read More

The happy historian (Part 1): Are you up to speed?

28 December 2012 – Liz Almlie 1

There’s a show on the website Hulu you may have seen, called “Up to Speed” with host Timothy “Speed” Levitch and director Richard Linklater.   Speed is a licensed tour guide—kind of—advising us that “to truly travel is to appreciate the beauty in the unexpected.”   Read More