Racial Injustice, Preservation, and Place: A Juneteenth Reflection

Done right, historic places can foster real healing, true equity, and a validation of all Americans and their history. These six sites (four of which received grants from the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund) acknowledge human suffering and struggles, help visitors to make meaning of difficult history, and offer a venue for public discourse about the future and how we must act in it.

“Preservation is a path to narrative – who lived here, what happened here, why is this stone wall here. The questions and the answers they seek continue; for without preservation how do we know our story? This quest to understand is key to our humanity.” – Mr. Chuck A.

After an unprecedented start to 2020, we are urgently raising $30,000 to start a new fiscal year strong and ensure we can preserve America’s historic places in the months and years to come.

Retrace the Journey of America’s First Female Representative of Color

As a politician and lawyer, Patsy Takemoto Mink broke ground both in her state of Hawaii and across the nation. This guide demonstrates how her visionary policies catalyzed change for educational advocacy, Asian American representation, and gender equity across the nation.

A Number of Historic Hotels of America Are Set to Reopen

In March 2020, nearly 150 historic hotels closed their doors in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Now, more than 102 of these hotels have reopened or are scheduled to reopen by July 4, 2020, with new sanitation guidelines in place to ensure guest safety. Download the Historic Hotels of America’s new 2020–2021 directory to learn more about the historic properties this program encapsulates. For information on how each hotel is responding to the coronavirus, please visit their websites directly.

Education Safe Havens: 3 LGBT Sites in New York City

Humble spaces such as warehouses, community rooms, bars, and cafes have played critical roles in the history of the LGBT civil rights movement. In New York City, the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project is documenting this underrepresented history and working to see that worthy sites receive the formal recognition they deserve.

Women’s History, Here and Now: Inside the Lives of 3 Iconic Women

The centennial of women’s suffrage in the U.S. is serving as an impetus for historic sites to answer this question: “Where are the women?” In this Preservation magazine feature, we've highlighted the lives of three extraordinary women—Pauli Murray, Harriet Tubman, and Frances Perkins—and the places most connected with them.