by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Mar 30, 2019 | African American History, Blog, Community Engagement, Education, Historic Preservation, Interpretation, Outreach, Planning
My Forty-Year-Old Research Finds New Home at the Smithsonian Recently I was at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), which is digitizing my collection of slides, black and white prints, and drawings of houses and...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Jul 2, 2018 | African American History, Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Historic Preservation, Interpretation, Operations, Outreach, Planning, Whole Place Preservation
How to Manage Major Change in a Historic Site? How does a historical plantation that has become a 3400-acre forested nature sanctuary metamorphose into a historic site and do so with only modest changes to the landscape? What kinds of new visitor facilities and...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Feb 26, 2018 | Blog, Community Engagement, Historic Preservation, Interpretation, Outreach, Planning, Public Speaking
Annual Conference February 16, 2018 Following a series of tragic events happening across our nation, and with hopes of helping organizations across South Carolina to be better prepared for future emergencies, Palmetto Archives, Libraries & Museums Council...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Nov 17, 2017 | Blog, Historic Preservation, Interpretation
An Ancestral Home Welcomes A Visitor I was asked to speak at the Maryland Historical Society in the fall of 2017 by Louise Hayman, chairman of the board. I was delighted to do so because of my past connection with the area: in 1974, while in graduate...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Oct 17, 2017 | African American History, Blog, Community Engagement, Historic Preservation, Interpretation, Outreach, Public Speaking, Publication
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...
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