The Museum of the American Revolution to Unveil Newest Exhibition, “Black Founders: The Forten Family of Philadelphia”
The Museum of the American Revolution’s newest exhibition will open to the public on February 11, 2023, and be on […]
The Museum of the American Revolution’s newest exhibition will open to the public on February 11, 2023, and be on […]
The New Jersey Council for the Humanities (NJCH) announced on January 31 that they will distribute $211,743 in funding to […]
The Alliance Heritage Center at Stockton University will use grant funds to establish a public digital database of its collection […]
On Saturday, January 21, the Alice Paul Institute (API) celebrated its namesake’s 138th birthday. The event served as an unveiling […]
Montclair State University held a press conference in December. Officials announced that the university will receive a $5 million gift […]
The National Preservation Awards are presented annually at the PastForward conference. According to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the […]
There is no better place to learn the processes and techniques of historic preservation than the living laboratory of Camden and nearby Philadelphia. The Historic Preservation Continuing Education Program at Rutgers-Camden promotes the importance of historic preservation in communities by bringing together students and a wide range of active professionals in the field. The program offers courses, workshops, and the option of earning a continuing education certificate in historic preservation.
Learn MoreBased at MARCH, with numerous community partners, The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia is a civic project to increase understanding of one of America’s greatest cities. From abolition and the American Revolution to yellow fever and zoos (with cheesesteaks, rowhouses, and hundreds of other topics in between), the digital Encyclopedia and print volume will offer the most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region.
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Learn MoreMARCH is pleased to host the co-editor’s office for The Public Historian, a journal published by the National Council on Public History and the University of California-Santa Barbara. MARCH supports the NCPH mission to “inspire public engagement with the past and serve the needs of practitioners in putting history to work in the world by building community among historians, expanding professional skills and tools, fostering critical reflection on historical practice, and publicly advocating for history and historians.”
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