Hello, could I be added to this starter pack? Thanks!

Hello! Could I be added to this starter pack if there’s still room? Thanks!

That’s certainly part of it, it helps with security to have an onsite presence

Yes, HNE/SPNEA will figure very prominently in this project!

The rest of the project looks at the employee housing policies of the National Park Service and historic preservation organizations who operated as large-scale urban landlords in the postwar era.

These workers were eventually displaced by white couples who site administrators deliberately sought to maximize their labor and seeming respectability in the eyes of visitors. Ironically, these tenants were displaced from frontline work as public history professionalized in the 1970s.

The first part of the book covers how formerly enslaved women, maids, and housekeepers emerged as the first generation of tenants and frontline workers at house museums, a phenomenon I covered in a lecture last month at Penn: www.youtube.com/live/3kyoUdb...

Not explicitly, this particular article is looking at cultural institutions in New England and the Mid-Atlantic, but the broader book project focuses on the NPS's employee housing policy which is tied up with Indigenous identity and preservation out west for sure

Find someone who currently lives there! There's a whole network of folks who work as caretakers and museum tenants, can put you in touch depending on your area

Thank you! It's for a regional office in Lowell so I'm loving being back in New England!

I have an article coming out about it in the February issue of The Public Historian!

Thanks, David! Could you add me to this starter pack if there's still room?

Hello, could you add me to this starter pack, please! I'm currently an architectural historian with the National Park Service.