Helping humanities professionals tap the power of the region's expansive cultural heritage to enrich community life, inspire visitors, and revitalize the economy.

Cross Ties newsletter

Howard Gillette, Director, MARCH
Linda Shopes, Editor, Cross Ties

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2009

• Summer, Humanities Work as Civic Investment: The Emerging Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
• Spring, Using Diversity to Reframe the Preservation Movement: Young Preservationists Association of Pittsburgh

2008

• Fall, Starting a Museum: What is essential and what is not?
• Summer, Interpreting the Civil War at Gettysburg
• Spring, Acts of Civic Engagement: Confronting the History of 1960s Racial Disturbances

2007

• Winter, Industrial History: What's at stake and what's possible (Bethlehem Steel)
• Fall, Public History at Sites of Protest: Citizenship on the President’s House Viewing Platform
• Summer, Historic site revovation nightmares that DIDN'T happen
• Spring, Community archeaology in New Castle, DE

2006

• Winter, Collaborative exhibits on suburbs in Westchester County
• Fall, Creating a regional story, Washington/Rochambeau Route to Yorktown
• Summer, Innovative leadership at Fort Ticonderoga
• Spring, Whitman and NJ heritage tourism