Baltimore Museum of Art Will Only Buy Works by Women Artists in 2020
The Baltimore Museum of Art holds 95,000 works of art. Of that, just four percent are works made by women. […]
CrossTies: News and Insights for Humanities Professionals
News & Insights
Campaign Launched to Create Permanent Home for Jewish Historical Society of Delaware
Although the Jewish Historical Society of Delaware has been around for over fifty years, it may be difficult to find. […]
Penn Museum to Unveil Redesigned Galleries This Weekend
Founded in the 19th century, the Penn Museum has long been the home to archeological treasures from around the world. […]
The Sarnoff Collection at TCNJ Celebrates 100 Years of RCA
On November 20, 1919, General Electric purchased the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America based in New Brunswick, New Jersey. […]
Preservation Work Begins on New York State Pavilion
Few traces remain of the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair that attracted over 50 million visitors to Flushing Meadows Corona […]
Newark Museum Debuts New Name
Yesterday, the Newark Museum introduced its new name, The Newark Museum of Art. Museum staff said that the name change […]
Conferences & Events
MARCH
Regional
Programs & Projects
Historic Preservation Continuing Education
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 MoreEncyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
Based 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.
Learn MoreMARCH Professional Services
MARCH Professional Services provides professional historical consulting services at a reasonable cost to non-profit and community organizations across the Greater Philadelphia area. Our trained historians and professionals in allied fields are available for research projects, educational tours and programming, exhibition design, preservation projects, digital engagement, and more.
Learn MorePartnerships & Affiliations
National Council on Public History
MARCH 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.”
Learn MoreHistory@Work
- Around the Field November 13, 2019
- Seeking feedback on the NCPH Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
- From #MeToo to systemic cultural change: a public historian’s call to action
- Meeting people where they are: Reinterpreting Freeman Tilden
- Around the Field October 30, 2019
- Les Murs Sont Témoins | “These Walls Bear Witness” at Portchester Castle
AASLH
MARCH is an institutional member of the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH), “a national association that provides leadership and support for its members who preserve and interpret state and local history in order to make the past more meaningful to all people.” Webinars from AASLH are among the programs offered at MARCH for public humanities professionals in the South Jersey/Philadelphia region.
Learn MoreMARCH promotes collaboration, innovation, and best practices in public humanities.
We publish news of interest to public humanities professionals in the Mid-Atlantic region of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Suggestions and submissions are welcome.