Historic preservation

populations in the mid-1800’s, it was important to develop healthy, green, spaces for city dwellers. The Rural Cemetery Movement encouraged American cities to use cemetery space as multi-functional space for leisure, recreation, environmental preservation, and for healthy burial practices (Lundgren). "In a country sorely lacking in public green spaces, these cemeteries provided these graceful, elegant places…They were all around recreational and artistic centers for people. They became…

Although we as the present generation had no say in how this past property has been passed down, we have accepted this obligation of continuance of Beacon Hill by providing for historic preservation law. If we look purely to the past generation perhaps we have a duty to carry on the legacy of the historic district but was this a legacy that was meant to be carried forward? Roads and sidewalks are meant to be replaced and maintained. Did someone from the past truly expect and need the sidewalks…

As a historic town that played a pivotal part in the American railroad industry, Etowah once served as a critical piece to the direct railroad route from Atlanta to Chicago (Lambe, 2008, p. 55). L&N Railroad Co. continued to leave a mark on the town of Etowah…

On Saturday June 28th 1969, at 1:20 in the morning, police officers raided the Stonewall Inn leading to the revolutionary battle toward the LGBT liberations movement (The Historic Stonewall Inn). Stonewall Inn is a gay bar located on 53 Christopher St, New York, NY 10014, between West 4th Street and Waverly Place, in the Greenwich Village of Lower Manhattan. Stonewall Inn is a tavern open to all genders, but more specifically to the gay community of Lower Manhattan. This bar represents and…

R- and k- strategists are reproductive strategies. Reproductive strategies are “The interplay of environmental resistance and biotic potential” (Wright, 77). The difference between the r- and k- strategies is the characteristics of each. The r- strategies tend to have a lot of children at a young age, leaving their children with little or no parental care, the population stability wildly fluctuates. R- strategist tend to be smaller in size and, a short life span and rapid movement. Examples of…

Antiques have a unique place in American society even today. Going even further, they arguably have a different meaning today than they did in the past. Briann G. Greenfield offers an effective evolution of antiques from the early 1900’s onward. She charts the advances in collecting, selling, acquiring and even displaying of antiques. Greenfield even offers several case studies of collectors and dealers within the five chapters of Out of the Attic: Inventing Antiques in the Twentieth-Century…

lobby throughout the grounds in an effort to materialize. Strange odors, disembodied voices, footsteps, dark figures, and the feeling of being touched are all present realizations once you have committed yourself to touring the grounds. Many of the historic gravestones have been haphhazardly moved and are now leaning up against the church's exterior walls. Spectral representations of the non-living have been caught lurking near the headstones and a strong scent of sweet smelling roses can be…

period, having become very involved with the preservation of historic Newport, she was able to save historic houses from the wrecking balls and subsequently restore and modernize them so they could be rented or sold. Doris died in 1993, leaving a fortune of over $1 billion that was used to fund The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. This foundation, amongst many other things, supports the house museums at Rough Point and Whitehorne as well as the 70 historic houses that she successfully saved in…

I think Wikipedia actually has a decent article on progressive nationalism. It summarizes it as thus: "Left-wing nationalism describes a form of nationalism officially based upon equality, popular sovereignty, and national self-determination. It has its origins in the Jacobinism of the French Revolution. Left-wing nationalism typically espouses anti-imperialism. It stands in contrast to right-wing nationalism, and has often rejected racist nationalism and fascism." That seems like a pretty…

no. To begin, the extremist group ISIS has demolished numerous historic sites full of significant artifacts. Including Nimrad, a city in the ancient Assyrian Kingdom. This city celebrated literature and contained sacred texts. Another place tragically destroyed by ISIS was Khorsabad. Which the Oriental Institution said in Article 4, “Khorsabad is unusual among the Assyrian palaces because of its stylistic innovations, the preservation of paint on its reliefs, and the extensive ancient written…