Preservation Celebration Weekend, Vicksburg, Mississippi September 30 to October 1, 2017 What would you do to keep your community from turning into Anywhere, USA? Two dedicated preservationists led the charge against that very possibility, inspiring their...
Opening Up History & Healing Wounds: Choosing a Future for Confederate Memorials University of Mississippi – October 3, 2017 What do Confederate Memorials mean and what do we do with them? These are questions that have us struggling to find...
Montgomery County’s Historical African American Communities October 7, 2017 Because of my connection with the Maryland Historical Trust as a former historic sites surveyor and researcher, I was invited to be part of the celebration event honoring the...
Open the Door! Approaches to Interpreting Historic Landscapes AASLH Conference, Austin, Texas – September 8, 2017 by George W. McDaniel This was the second session that I participated in at this year’s AASLH conference in Austin....
Mother Emanuel AME, Charleston, SC AASLH Conference, Austin, Texas – September 8, 2017 by George W. McDaniel I have just returned from the annual conference of the American Association for State and Local History in Austin, Texas. I left on...
It Could Happen to You: Collecting in the Face of Tragedy American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting – May 2017 UPDATED AUGUST 2017 This past May, I participated in an important session at the annual conference of the American Alliance of Museums (AAM)....
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"Drayton Hall Stories" is now a 4X Award Winner with the SE Museum Conference's James R. Short Award, the Governor's Award in the Humanities, the SC Preservation Honor Award & the Alexander S. Salley Lifetime Achievement Award.