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Put Your Organization to the Rorschach Test
Click to view slideshow. If you’re finding that your organization is in a rut and you no longer feel as inspired about its work, it might be useful to look at it in a new way by creating a “word cloud”...
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HBO CEO named Mt. Vernon CEO; A Step Backwards IMHO
George Washington’s Mount Vernon Today, Curtis G. Viebranz becomes the president and chief executive officer of George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Unfortunately, this decision by the Mount Vernon...
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The Many Flavors of Touring Historic Places
Monticello Explorer provides several virtual tours. Although guided tours of period rooms is the most common form of interpretation at historic sites, audio tours, video tours, and virtual tours are...
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Responses to Government Shutdown Vary at Historic Sites and Museums
Click to view slideshow. Washington, DC is one of the nation’s museum meccas with nearly 19 million annual visitors so with the partial shutdown of the federal government, tourists are frustrated and...
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Video: Ask a Slave, Episode 1
In honor of Black History Month, we’re sharing Ask a Slave, a series of short interviews with Lizzie Mae, “personal housemaid to President and Lady Washington.” It’s based on the experiences of Azie...
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History Relevance Campaign Convenes at Mt. Vernon
Click to view slideshow. Thanks to the support of The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon, the steering committee of the History Relevance Campaign held a...
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Are There Cultural Connections Between North and South?
On April 26-29, 2015, the Preservation Society of Newport County (aka the Newport Mansions) is hosting a symposium on the cultural connections between the North and South from the Colonial Period to...
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What Historic Sites Have Learned After 25 Years with ADA
This month marks the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which ensured equal access to persons with limited mobility, limited vision, limited hearing, and other disabilities....
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IMHO: Trump’s Election Reflects Trends in History Museums and Historic...
Donald J. Trump’s election to the U. S. presidency is a shock to many pundits and career politicians because he never held elected office and didn’t seem to care about politics or government, except as...
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What Can Historic Sites Learn From Geography?
You’d think historic sites and geography would be an obvious combination because they both focus on place, and yet, I didn’t really see the connection until a few years ago when I started teaching at...
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