The new HISTPRES is the online community of young and emerging preservation professionals. We have updated the website to clearly illustrate the newest jobs + internships, blog posts, and the most common requested type of jobs! The blog is the place to share your preservation projects and comment on preservation initiatives that are important to you.
We have specific interests in posting your narratives about: preservation professional qualifications, building material reuse, public archaeology, projects incorporating both archaeology and historic building preservation, community outreach, K-12 preservation education, grassroots initiatives, interesting intersections with other fields, LGBTQ history research and site preservation, international preservation perspectives, and public + media art preservation. Submissions should be 500-1,000 words and include relevant links and images with captions and credits.
Jump off from these suggestions:
- Unique research topics (thesis recaps, school paper recaps)
- Academic, internship and field school retrospectives
- Preservation project summaries (architecture, research, practical, etc)
- Conference, lecture, workshop announcements and recaps
- Book and movie reviews that relate to preservation
- Controversial preservation topics and reactions to preservation news
- Travel logs, photography and tangential topics like zoning, conservation, antiques…
Recently published:
- Painting for Preservation: On-Site Art Making at Historic Places
- Historic Preservation Abbreviations You Should Know
- A Preservationist in Pursuit of the American Dream – Part 1
- Saving Shipwrecks: An Introduction to Mallows Bay, MD
- Space Preservation: Proposing a Lunar Protection Agency
- Integration of Preservation into Disaster Planning at the Local Level
- Preservation Generation: A List of Young Preservationist Groups
HISTPRES will work with you in editing, formatting, and illustrating your post. We reserve the right to respectfully edit your submission.
