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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Historic sites"”.
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Virginia historic sites: are they accessible to the mobility impaired?
The purpose of the study was to determine how historic organizations in Virginia have responded to the issue of handicapped accessibility at their properties. The study sought to determine which historic sites are accessible to the mobility impaired, what handicapped accessible features exist in …
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Commerce or Significance: Commercial Interventions on Cultural Interpretation at Two Philadelphia Historic Sites
… the interpretation of cultural significance in historic site management. Rather than treating commercialization as an inherent threat to preservation, it argues that its effects depend on institutional context, management structure, and narrative strategy. Through comparative case studies of the …
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Dead Men Tell No Tales: How Can Creative Approaches to Communication Keep Historic Sites From Going Silent
… evidence that there was a crisis looming for historic house museums came in 1988, when an informal study commissioned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation revealed that of 5,000 historic property museums in the United States, 54% of them received less than 5,000 visitors annually. …
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Time Travel at the Fortress of Louisbourg: The Implications of Social Media and Digital Tools Affecting Visitation of Parks Canada National Historic Sites, Cape Breton Island, Canada
… site visitation. Louisbourg is a unique national historic site on Unama’ki (Cape Breton Island). The fortress has seen a decrease in visitation annually throughout recent years; it is unclear why. Using a mixed methods approach, this method of study investigates the current methods of social media …
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A Rejuvenating Resort Remembered: The Use of Folklore and Archaeology in the Investigation of the Historic Massey Springs Resort in South-Central Kentucky
<p>Using only one line of evidence for a study of historic sites can be problematic if it does not provide a complete picture of the material culture or lifeways of a people, group, or community. In order to understand the ideas and objects, of culture present at historic sites, it is necessary to …
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Shedding Light on Dark Truths : The Interpretation of African American History at Tryon Palace in New Bern, NC
… Today, the site is one of the most visited historic sites in the state. But what stories are visitors hearing? The historic homes and buildings at the site display local history but African Americans have only recently penetrated the interpretation. This thesis acknowledges the difficulties …
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Critical race museology: a case study of educational voices and leaders at the DuSable Museum of African American History
… a phenomenological lens, I examine critical historical archives and transitions in oral history research. I also introduce Critical Race Museology (CRM) as an intersectional framework and contextualize what I term oral history shifters and torch-sharing. Undergirding this study are larger …
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Pennies for parks: the effect of social norm theory on donation behavior in Arkansas state parks
… donation boxes are common in parks, museums, and historic sites, not much is known about how they influence visitor behavior. Perhaps some donation boxes are more efficient at generating revenue than others. The purpose of this study was to determine if social norms played a role in the donation …
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Hampton Plantation: Interpreting Slavery In South Carolina
… presenting, discussing, and debating slavery at historic sites has become a prevalent topic throughout the United States. This study looks at challenges public historians face when interpreting slavery at historic house museums and offers recommendations for improvement. It specifically analyzes …
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The History and Archaeology of a North West Company Trading Post and a Hudson's Bay Company Transport Depot, Lac La Loche, Saskatchewan
… carried out in 1971 and 1972 at two historic sites in the Methye Portage-Lac La Loche area of north-central Saskatchewan are presented. The sites are a late 18th-century North West Company trading post, and a late 19th-century Hudson's Bay Company transport depot. A descriptive …
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Development and assessment of predictive spatial models for a rare Tennessee anuran: Barking treefrog (Hyla gratiosa)
… presence locations. From April-August 2017, 126 sites (63 historical; 63 predicted) were visited monthly and sampled for frog calls according to a standardized protocol. Field results revealed H. gratiosa’s auditory presence at 23 out of 63 historic sites and at nine out of 63 predicted sites. …
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Real Estate: How House Museums in Los Angeles Strive-And Sometimes Struggle-To Achieve Authenticity
… tourism industry as the characteristic that sets historic sites apart from other tourist attractions such as amusement parks. Scholars have examined–with much skepticism–sites such as Colonial Williamsburg and other east coast institutions that tout the presence or recreation of authenticity. …
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Governor's Island : designing the present through the past
… it is on the list of the 10 most endangered historic sites in the U.S.A. My goal is to provide the island with a program which responds to the its past: an International Center for Peace; to provide an experience which unfolds history and memory: intersecting and diverging paths and places …
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Memorable, Legible, and Accessible Cities: Co-Stewarding Historic Preservation and Public Transportation Agendas in Boston and Hong Kong
… can identify and leverage shared goals between historic preservation and public transit planning to support a memorable, legible, and accessible public realm. Preservation and transportation agendas are often described as inherently opposed to one another, and are generally administered through …
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Sankofa: A virtual Exploration of the Besease Shrine
… reality is an artistic medium that can visualize historic sites and places remotely to give a firsthand perspective and appreciation. The paper further discusses how virtual reality can be used to preserve and document these historical places.
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EXPLORING TRANSFORMATION OF STREET LAYOUT IN THE OLD CITY OF BEIJING: CASE STUDIES OF QIANMEN AND XISI
Numerous historical buildings, streets and sites keep disappearing nowadays because the impact from rapid urban modernization development. Usually, the government and planner have ideas about how to build new urban landscape while own limited ways to preserve historic site. The old city of Beijing …
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