Leo Frank commemoration: Museum partnerships and controversial topics

17 November 2015 – 7

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As museums increasingly become spaces for engaging challenging topics, three metro Atlanta institutions joined together to address a century-old rift in the community. Using expanded audiences, a shared strategic mission, and a network of public historians, the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History forged a partnership with the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum and the Museum of History and Holocaust Education to present the exhibit, “Seeking Justice: The Leo Frank Case Revisited.” Read More

Civil War memory and American gun culture

10 November 2015 –

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Ashley Halsey Jr. was frustrated when the civil rights movement defeated the Lost Cause. The United States Civil War Centennial Commission had invited the Saturday Evening Post associate editor and Civil War buff to be the featured speaker at the 1961 centennial commemoration of the firing on Fort Sumter in his hometown of Charleston, South Carolina. Read More

Pennsylvania’s hallowed ground: A role for historic preservation

06 November 2015 – 1

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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. 

The saga of the Locust Grove Cemetery, an African American burial ground in the small borough of Shippensburg, is one that is repeated across the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Read More

Engaging to preserve: Building a preservation-minded community through Twitter

29 October 2015 –

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Over the course of ten weeks this past spring, I explored, blogged, and tweeted my way through twenty of Providence’s endangered properties. The challenge came to me by way of the Providence Preservation Society (PPS), which is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of their Most Endangered Properties (MEP) program this year. Read More

Professional opportunities Oct. 27, 2015

28 October 2015 –

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AWARD: Society for History in the Federal Government offers two book awards – Henry Adams Award for a book about U.S. federal government by a non-federal-government employee and George Pendleton Award for a book written by a current or former federal government historian or sponsored by a government history office. Read More