History Tourism

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/5/2023
  

  8 Sites Illuminating African American History Show the Need for Preservation

  The National Trust for Historic Preservation is working against time and redevelopment to prevent the loss of key sites of African American history across the nation. So far the project has helped protect a museum of the Buffalo Soldiers, Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church, and Louis Armstrong's house in Queens, among other sites. 

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• 2/6/2023
  

  The Heroes of Ripley, Ohio

  by David Goodrich

  David Goodrich bicycled 3,000 miles along the routes of the Underground Railroad, encountering the places of history from a new perspective. This excerpt follows him through the Ohio-Kentucky borderland and across the river that marked free territory. 

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• 3/6/2022
  

  The Power and Urgency of Public History

  by David M. Chamberlain

  After a tour of the South's historical sites, I maintain a teacher’s optimism that knowledge of our nation’s imperfect past offers us the necessary wisdom to walk ourselves back from the edge of the political ledge on which we are so perilously perched.

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  2/14/2022
  

  A Guide to Touring Alabama's Civil Rights Trail

  Two AJC reporters offer a guide to those interested in marking Black History Month with a tour of Alabama's major civil rights sites, memorials and museums.