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New Book: Fifty Ideas for the Next Fifty Years of Historic Preservation in the United States: Considering the Future of Preserving the Past by Max Page and Marla Miller

Sunday, July 31, 2016

  The year 2016 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, the cornerstone of historic preservation policy and practice in the United States. The act established the ...

Writing Public History in Cleveland

Saturday, July 30, 2016

In a new post on our blog, Past@Present, graduate student Rebekkah Rubin discusses her summer internship at Belt Magazine, an online magazine that publishes long form journalism about the Rust Belt...

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s… a table-desk?

Monday, July 25, 2016

In a new post on our blog Past@Present, M.A. student Katherine Fecteau talks about her public history internship in Historic Deerfield's curatorial department. Read more here....

The Contested History of Queer Themes in American Art Exhibitions

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

In a new post on our blog Past@Present, Art History and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies double major Maria Bastos-Stanek discusses the contested history of queer themes in American art...

Women Ruled the Floor When the GOP First Came to Cleveland

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Public history graduate student Rebekkah Rubin's first article for Belt Magazine was recently picked up by the Smithsonian Magazine. In the article, Rebekkah explains that the 1924 GOP Convention...

When Cleveland Became A "Convention City"

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

In an article for Belt Magazine, public history graduate student Rebekkah Rubin explores the history of when the Republican National Convention moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1924. Read more here....