historic preservation

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• SOURCE: Columbus Dispatch
  5/18/2020
  

  Columbus Historian Hits Streets in Search of African American Stories

  Rita Fuller-Yates earned a bachelor's degree in history and worked in corporate America and as a lifestyle columnist. But now she's a fierce avocate for memorializing one of Ohio's black leaders (and the history of African Americans in Columbus) on the grounds of the Statehouse.

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• SOURCE: Southern Maryland Chronicle
  5/18/2020
  

  Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture Announces $1 Million In Funding for Preservation Projects

  The Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture (MCAAHC) announces $1 million in available funds for African American preservation projects throughout the state of Maryland.

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• SOURCE: WCMU
  5/1/2020
  

  'Fresh Air' Remembers Jazz Archivist And Historian Michael Cogswell

  Michael Cogswell was a musician and historian who managed the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens. He was interviewed by Fresh Air in 2001.

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• SOURCE: National Parks Service
  4/27/2020
  

  National Park Service Awards More than $3.1 Million in Grants to Preserve and Interpret World War II Japanese American Confinement Sites

  The 22 projects funded will help tell the stories of the more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II following the attack on Pearl Harbor by the nation of Japan in 1941.

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  4/27/2020
  

  $500,000 Federal Grant Awarded to Former “Americus Colored Hospital”

  The National Park Service and Historic Preservation Fund awarded the grant to an Americus preservation group to create a new civil rights museum in the original building of a Jim Crow-era hospital that served the black population of southwest Georgia.

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• SOURCE: KRWG
  4/27/2020
  

  Retired NMSU Professor's Blog Offers A Road Trip Through U.S. History

  Retired history professor Jon Hunner's blog is a travelogue of a 60,000 mile journey to visit the National Parks system. 

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• SOURCE: Upworthy
  4/28/2020
  

  75 Years Ago, the U.S. Blew Up a Giant Swastika in Nazi Germany and it's Still so Satisfying to Watch

  Local authorities in Nurnberg recently voted to conserve (not rebuild or renovate) the site of some of Hitler's most notorious speeches.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  4/13/2020
  

  Race Against Time: Saving the Largest Archive of Chinese American History From Fire

  In January, a fire tore through an historic building in the heart of Manhattan's Chinatown, threatening to engulf decades of artifacts documenting Chinese life in the US.

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• SOURCE: MassLive
  4/14/2020
  

  World War II-Era Planes at Cape Cod Airfield Vandalized, Sustain at Least $15,000 in Damages

  The airport added, “Doing this to an aircraft is the equivalent to pushing down a World War II veteran just to watch him fall.”

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• SOURCE: CNN
  3/8/2020
  

  New Orleans Cultural Historian Died of Coronavirus, But His Family Only Found Out on the Day of Funeral

  "I want to educate the world about our great culture," Ron Lewis wrote on the museum's website. "How we do this, and why we are so successful at it even though the economics say we ain't supposed to be."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/6/2020
  

  Marie Antoinette Would Be Proud

  The palace has called on skilled designers, historians, botanists and gardeners to apply their expertise to the complicated work of restoring that spot, called Le Bosquet de la Reine, or the Queen’s Grove.

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• SOURCE: Artnet News
  4/2/2020
  

  A 200-Foot Section of the Berlin Wall Has Been Torn Down to Make Way for Condos, Leaving Historians Appalled

  One of the largest remaining stretches of the inner wall was tucked quietly away in a suburb.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2-10-14
  

  SF Museum of Modern Art hosts iPhone preservation initiative

  The research is designed to be collaborative, bringing curators, conservators, artists or designers and scholars together.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2-11-14
  

  Shelby Cobra Coupe Becomes the First Federally Registered Historic Car

  The Shelby Cobra revolutionized the racing world upon making its 1964 debut.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11-18-13
  

  Gettysburg battlefield is restored to a landscape Civil War soldiers would recognize

  A small tree planting ceremony is among the overlooked events of the sesquicentennial.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11-12-13
  

  Silent Sentinels at Center of Lithuanian Debate on Bygone Era

  Should Vilnius preserve its severe Soviet-era statues?

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• SOURCE: PennLive
  10-24-13
  

  Two dead as museum's rare World War II-era plane crashes in Texas

  A P-51 Mustang crashed into the ocean near Galveston.

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• SOURCE: Library of Congress
  9-5-13
  

  Library of Congress working to save pulp magazines

  The Library is preserving the lurid colorful colors of the pulpy, trashy magazines of yesteryear.

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• SOURCE: The Local (Germany)
  8-30-13
  

  Nuremberg 'must fix up Hitler's parade grounds'

  The aging relic of Hitler's meglomania is literally falling apart, endangering tourists.

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• SOURCE: New Statesman
  8-14-13
  

  Why is the Welsh language dying?

  by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

  The Welsh tongue is in decline due to the conservatism of the Welsh people.