historic preservation

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• SOURCE: House Beautiful
  4/26/2021
  

  Four Years Ago, Only 2% of Buildings on the National Register Spoke to African American History—Meet the Historian Changing That

  Brent Leggs and the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund are mobilizing to protect and preserve sites important to African American history ranging from Joe Frazier's Philadelphia boxing gym to the Gaston Motel where civil rights leaders stayed while visiting Birmingham. 

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• SOURCE: Kansas City Star
  4/25/2021
  

  KC Tributes to Baseball Great Satchel Paige are Crumbling. Can His House be Saved?

  Without a significant financial benefactor, it is unlikely that the Kansas City home of baseball legend Satchel Paige will be preserved. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  4/8/2021
  

  How a Plan to Save Buildings Fell Apart

  The imperatives of historic preservation are often at cross-purposes with the goals of community organizations. Does the failure of one preservation plan in Chicago offer lessons for the future?

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• SOURCE: National Trust for Historic Preservation
  3/12/2021
  

  Settlement Houses: Sites of Service, Access, and Connection for Women

  by Tamar Rabinowitz

  "Progressive Era settlement houses fostered the activism and intellectual creativity, as well as the conflicts, that would profoundly shape American modernity in the 20th century."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/13/2021
  

  A Push to Save Landmarks of the ‘Great Migration’ — and Better Understand Today’s Racial Inequities

  A south Chicago house once owned by legendary blues singer Muddy Waters is being rehabilitated as a museum of the city's Black music and culture, just one of many battles to preserve the built environment and material history of the African American "Great Migration" to Chicago and other northern cities. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/26/2021
  

  University Finds 18th-Century Schoolhouse Where Black Children Learned to Read

  The discovery of a 260-year-old structure with such a deep connection to a little-known chapter of the history of Colonial Williamsburg, when the population was more than 50 percent Black and teaching slaves to read was legal, is especially significant, said history professor Jody Lynn Allen. 

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• SOURCE: WTVY
  2/24/2021
  

  Auburn Professors Working to Preserve History of Selma’s ‘Bloody Sunday’

  Richard Burt and Keith Hébert are leading a team of researchers to preserve the site of the historic attack on voting rights marchers by Alabama State Troopers on March 7, 1965, hoping that a better-preserved public monument will clear up misperceptions of the day's events. 

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• SOURCE: WGN
  2/16/2021
  

  Group Fighting for Historic Landmark Recognition for Chicago Mansion with Deep History

  “Black women were migrating from the South and they had nowhere to go because economically, there were no jobs here for them,” Tate said. “So this was a place that spiritually, intellectually, socially, economically, they will magnify, to the point that they could go out and get a job and be somebody.”

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  1/21/2021
  

  The Rise and Fall of America's Lesbian Bars

  Even before COVID-19 a combination of factors have made lesbian bars much less common than their counterparts catering to gay men. Two filmmakers are working to raise funds to keep these establishments in business. This article also explains how bars became safe gathering places as cities passed "vice" laws that subjected lesbians to police harassment in public.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/8/2021
  

  The Smithsonian Is Collecting Objects From the Capitol Siege

  Smithsonian Director Lonnie Bunch III discusses the necessity of preserving evidence of the riot at the Capitol. 

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• SOURCE: Lowell Sun
  12/31/2020
  

  Partnership Led By UMass Lowell Preserves “Little Canada”

  An undergraduate honors course in history led by Robert Forrant is developing public history markers to commemorate the Le Petit Canada neighborhood of Lowell, Massachusetts. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/9/2020
  

  Lockdown Gardening in Britain Leads to Archaeological Discoveries

  Locked-down Britons have unearthed many potentially valuable objects both modern and ancient, prompting consideration of expanding a law that would enable museums to claim such objects after compensating the finder.

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• SOURCE: Curbed
  12/9/2020
  

  Absolutely No One Wants to Buy Trump’s Childhood Home

  The current owners of the former Trump family home in Queens set up a GoFundMe to allow supporters to purchase the property at $3 million to give to Trump as a legacy project. So far it has raised $125. 

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• SOURCE: Worcester (MA) Telegram and Gazette
  12/7/2020
  

  Last Pearl Harbor Fighter Plane that Still Flies a Historical Highlight at American Heritage Museum in Hudson

  A series of accidents allowed a P-40 fighter plane to survive the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; after crashing in service a month later, the plane lay on a Hawaiian mountainside until 1985, when it was restored to flight condition using parts from other planes. It is now an attraction at the American Heritage Museum in Hudson, Massachusetts.

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• SOURCE: WGBH
  11/27/2020
  

  The Legacy Of Tunney Lee: Preserving The History Of Boston's Chinatown

  An interdisciplinary panel of scholars discusses the contributions of the late MIT urban studies professor Tunney Lee to historic preservation and the relationship of immigrant communities to urban environments.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/30/2020
  

  Campaigners Launch Legal Challenge Over Stonehenge Road Tunnel

  A plan to tunnel underneath the site of Stonehenge to expand a British highway is controversial and reflects different understandings of preservation. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/30/2020
  

  When an Enemy’s Cultural Heritage Becomes One’s Own

  As the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region enters a cease-fire, what are the prospects for protecting sites of cultural and historical significance from destruction as acts of reprisal? History suggests it's possible, though difficult.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  12/1/2020
  

  The Struggle to Document COVID-19 for Future Generations

  by Pamela Ballinger

  Images of suffering have been powerful spurs to humanitarian action in history, but the process has the potential to reinforce messages of fault, blame, and separation. Assembling a visual archive of the age of COVID must avoid those traps to be useful in the future. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/12/2020
  

  The National Trust is under Attack Because it Cares about History, not Fantasy

  by Peter Mitchell

  Britain's historic preservation agency has become the target of conservative politicians who have interpreted the Trust's commissioning of a report evaluating the relationship of its projects to slavery as an attack on the nation's historical identity.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  11/16/2020
  

  Will Trump Burn the Evidence?

  by Jill Lepore

  Reckoning with the Trump adminstration's actions and assigning moral or criminal sanction to any misdeeds will probably be compromised by the destruction or failure to maintain presidential records.