Enjoy Free Admission to Museums Throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region on Smithsonian Museum Day
This Saturday September 21, museums across the Mid-Atlantic region will offer free admission as part of the Smithsonian magazine’s fifteenth […]
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5th Annual Timbuctoo Day Honors Resilience of African Americans
This Saturday residents of Burlington County, NJ will celebrate the history of Timbuctoo, a community founded in 1826 by free […]
James Baldwin’s NYC Home Nominated to the National Register of Historic Places
The Manhattan home where author and activist James Baldwin spent the latter years of his life has been added to […]
Maryland Forms Commission to Investigate History of Lynching
In 2007, civil rights attorney Sherrilyn Ifill published On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st […]
NJ Academic Alliance to Present New Distinguished Service Award to Maxine N. Lurie
The New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance will present its first Distinguished Service Award next month. The award recognizes an individual […]
DC Community Group Fights for Historic Landmark Status for Barry Farm
Community activists in Washington D.C. hosted a walking tour of Barry Farm, a low-income housing complex, last Saturday to show […]
Delaware Agricultural Museum and Village Seeks Support for Historic Restoration Project
Since the 1970s, The Delaware Agricultural Museum and Village in Dover has transported visitors into a late nineteenth-century agricultural town […]
Barnes Foundation Uses VR to Engage New Audiences
Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation is bringing its collections outside of the museum walls with the help of virtual reality. The program […]
American Labor Museum in NJ Holds 27th Annual Labor Day Parade
The American Labor Museum in Haledon, New Jersey today stands on a quiet street, but in 1913, this historic house […]
Maryland Museum Considers Removing Confederate Flag from Logo as Part of Rebranding Effort
The National Museum of Civil War Medicine is rethinking its branding and wants visitor feedback. The Maryland museum’s logo currently […]