The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) received a $48,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to […]
The Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums has issued a call for session proposals for its Annual Meeting that will take place […]
In an announcement, the National Humanities Alliance shared a new toolkit on documenting the impact of the public humanities in […]
In a press release, the New Jersey Council for the Humanities (NJCH) selected six New Jersey nonprofit organizations as the […]
At the end of May, the Pennsylvania State Archives will begin its move to its new facility located at 1681 […]
The New Jersey Association of Museums (NJAM) will hold its Annual Meeting, Establishing the Gold Standard for New Jersey Museums, […]
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. With other MARCH projects, recipient of the 2023 Special Recognition Award for Preservation Education, Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia.
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 zoning (with cheesesteaks, rowhouses, and hundreds of other topics in between), the digital Encyclopedia and print volumes will offer the most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region.
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Learn MoreMARCH is pleased to provide editorial assistance 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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