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Public History, Heritage & Memory
How societies remember: museums, monuments, archives, and contested memory.
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‘We got work to do’: Volunteers step up to mow and clean overgrown Guilford County cemetery
3+ hour, 2+ min ago (348+ words) Many graves once obscured by tall grass can now be seen at Piedmont Cemetery in Guilford County. Volunteers in Greensboro are working to mow and clean an overgrown and unregulated cemetery Piedmont Cemetery, otherwise known as Piedmont Memorial Park, is…...
Traditional stitch-plank va'a returns to Samoa after a century
16+ hour, 24+ min ago (359+ words) A traditional stitch-plank va'a folau has returned to Samoa after more than a century, giving a new generation an opportunity to learn a craft once central to the islands’ relationship with the sea. The "soatau folau" was blessed and named…...
25 years later, SC State Museum honors local students’ efforts to help firefighters after 9/11
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (593+ words) Maurice Hallman looks at a steel girder from the World Trade Center on display at the South Carolina State Museum on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. COLUMBIA — Maurice Hallman remembers Sept. 11, 2001, vividly. He was in a sixth grade class at White Knoll Middle…...
Deseret News archives: Lascaux ice caves — world’s oldest art gallery — discovered in 1940
9+ hour, 52+ min ago (12+ words) On this day in 1940, 17,000-year-old artwork was discovered in France...
Visalia Depot museum dream closer as campaign hits halfway mark
2+ week, 1+ day ago (750+ words) Visalia Heritage has passed the halfway point in its fundraising drive that will allow it to close escrow on the former Southern Pacific Depot building and transform it into a permanent Visalia museum and cultural center. “We've raised over a…...
A Circular Monument Built 1,000 Years Before Stonehenge Just Emerged From the Czech Soil, With Human Bones Beside It
13+ hour, 9+ min ago (361+ words) A monumental circle rose from the earth near a small Czech village nearly 6,500 years ago, built by hands that somehow understood the sky better than we'd ever expect. A circular monument built 6,500 years ago near the present-day municipality of Chleby,…...
Trail honours generations of Devon shipyard workers
14+ hour, 9+ min ago (394+ words) Routes used by generations of workers travelling to and from historic shipyards are being celebrated with a special trail. The new Shipyard Trail gives visitors the chance to follow the routes between Bideford and Appledore yards in north Devon and…...
Work starts to restore historic Cornwall coastal defence battery
14+ hour, 11+ min ago (390+ words) Work has begun to restore a historic, granite-built military fort with hopes to open it up to the public. The work on the Grade II listed Garden Battery at Mount Edgcumbe in Cornwall, which dates back to 1862, was announced in…...
In 1915, Stonehenge came up as Lot 15 at an auction in Salisbury, and a local barrister bought it for £6,600 along with about 30 acres of downland. He handed it to the nation three years later, with a deed saying public admission should cost no more than a shilling per visit.
18+ hour, 24+ min ago (129+ words) Why would anyone buy a stone circle at a country auction? Not the farmland around it, not a grand house, but the ruin itself, listed as a numbered lot on a...
Inside Thornton Abbey – one of Britain's greatest medieval relics
16+ hour, 56+ min ago (1045+ words) It rises from the flat fields on the south bank of the Humber Estuary – a magnificent, towering building that, at first glance, resembles a castle. "We are looking at, in a nutshell, the largest and most magnificent abbey gatehouse in…...