historic sites

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• 2/6/20
  

  Harriet Tubman and a National Legacy of Midnight Skies and Silent Stars

  by Todd Lookingbill

  The Oscar buzz around the film and the popularity of the biopic with critics and general audiences alike creates an opportunity to discuss and shine a light on the important landscape associated with this amazing historical figure. 

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• SOURCE: Humanities Indicators
  Accessed 8/22/19
  

  Visits to historic sites rising in U.S.

  Read the latest report from Humanities Indicators!

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/18/19
  

  Descendants of slaves and slave owners discover legacy of Maryland’s Sotterley Plantation

  The restored cabin opened to the public in 2017 and was dedicated in honor of Agnes Kane Callum. The property also has an exhibit that describes the working farm, and lists the names of the enslaved people who lived there.

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• SOURCE: Al Arabiya News
  6-21-15
  

  UK sets up ‘Indiana Jones-style’ team to rescue historic sites from ISIS

  A group of curators from the UK will travel to Iraq, Syria, and Libya where they will work with fellow curators there to identify any items that could be rescued.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  9-23-13
  

  Steve Jobs' childhood home may become historical site

  Jobs moved to the Los Altos house with his foster parents when he was in 7th grade.

• SOURCE: Sacramento Bee
  8-8-13
  

  Original Sutter's Fort building gets face-lift

  The only original building left intact at Sutter's Fort is getting an upgrade.For the past month, California State Parks employees have been working to seismically stabilize and reshingle the roof of the historic Central Building at Sutter's Fort Historic Park.When originally constructed in 1840, the 6,500-square-foot building was the largest in the region, and it has since served alternatively as an office space, an entertainment hub, an Army headquarters and a miners dormitory....

• SOURCE: WaPo
  5-1-13
  

  SD tribe faces deadline, $4.9M price to block development near Wounded Knee massacre site

  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A small patch of prairie sits largely unnoticed off a desolate road in southwestern South Dakota, tucked amid gently rolling hills and surrounded by dilapidated structures and hundreds of gravesites — many belonging to Native Americans massacred more than a century earlier.The assessed value of the property: less than $14,000. The seller’s asking price: $4.9 million.Tribal members say the man who owns a piece of the Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is trying to profit from their suffering. It was there, on Dec. 29, 1890, that 300 Native American men, women and children were killed by the 7th Cavalry in the final battle of the American Indian Wars....

• SOURCE: Fredericksburg.com
  4-11-13
  

  Building comes down for Fredericksburg restoration

  Usually, people try to restore castles.But in Spotsylvania County, the “castle”—as some call a local fixture on State Route 3—is being demolished.The Central Virginia Battlefields Trust is razing the old “Stars and Bars” military surplus store on the Chancellorsville battlefield.The massively built structure—with twin turrets, battlements and a façade of brick and block—stands in the way of restoring the land to its May 1863 appearance....

• SOURCE: NYT
  3-31-13
  

  Plan to sell Wounded Knee site

  WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. — Ever since American soldiers massacred men, women and children here more than a century ago in the last major bloodshed of the American Indian wars, this haunted patch of rolling hills and ponderosa pines has embodied the combustible relationship between Indians and the United States government.It was here that a group of Indian activists aired their grievances against the government with a forceful takeover in 1973 that resulted in protests, a bloody standoff with federal agents and deep divisions among the Indian people.And now the massacre site, which passed into non-Indian hands generations ago, is up for sale, once again dragging Wounded Knee to the center of the Indian people’s bitter struggle against perceived injustice — as well as sowing rifts within the tribe over whether it would be proper, should the tribe get the land, to develop it in a way that brings some money to the destitute region....

• SOURCE: Guardian (UK)
  3-25-13
  

  Republicans critical of Obama national monuments bill amid sequester cuts

  Congressional Republicans have condemned Barack Obama for designating five new national monuments at a time when sequester funding cuts are hitting existing national parks and landmarks.Doc Hastings, the Republican chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, issued a statement on Monday criticising the president for spending at a time when the sequester has forced the cancellation of White House tours.Obama signed proclamations on Monday establishing the five new monuments under the 1906 Antiquities Act."These sites honour the pioneering heroes, spectacular landscapes and rich history that have shaped our extraordinary country," Obama said. "By designating these national monuments today, we will ensure they will continue to inspire and be enjoyed by generations of Americans to come."...