History 3500     MacKa y

Resources

Students will become familiar with the following organizations and their resources for historical preservation.

Advisory Council on Historic Preservation: http://www.achp.gov/

American Cultural Resources Association: http://www.acra-crm.org/

American Association of Museums: http://www.aam-us.org

American Association for State and Local History: http://www.aaslh.org/

American Institute of Architects: http://www.aia.org/

American Institute for Conservation: http://aic.stanford.edu/

American Library Association: http://www.ala.org/

The Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums: http://www.alhfam.org/

The Association for Preservation Technology International:  http://www.apti.org/

Campbell Center for Historic Preservation, Illinois, offers classes in conservation, etc.:  http://www.campbellcenter.org/index.shtml

CoOL, Conservation On Line: http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/

Heritage Conservation and Historic Preservation from Canada has links to on-line journals: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~conserv/publics.htm

Heritage Preservation: http://www.heritagepreservation.org/

Institute of Museum and Library Services: http://www.imls.gov/pubs/index.htm

Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/

National Alliance for Preservation Commissions: http://www.arches.uga.edu/~napc/

National Archives: http://www.nara.gov/

selected Prologue articles on-line: http://www.nara.gov/publications/prologue/artlist.html

National Building Museum: http://www.nbm.org/Great_Hall.html

National Council on Public History: http://ncph.org/

A commercial site Historic HomeWorks.com does have viable links to the Parks' Preservation Briefs: http://www.historichomeworks.com/HHW/pbriefs/pb00-toc.htm

National Trust for Historic Preservation: http://www.nthp.org/

searchable data base, including Preservation: http://nthp.org/search/asearch.html

Northeast Document Conservation Center: http://www.nedcc.org/welcome.htm

Public History Resource Center: http://www.publichistory.org/

Regional Alliance for Preservation: http://www.rap-arcc.org/

Smithsonian Institute, Center for Museum Studies: http://museumstudies.si.edu/start.htm

Society of American Archivists: http://www.archivists.org/

Western Museums Association: http://www.westmuse.org/

The Simpson Library at Mary Washington College, Virginia, has a good list of Historic Preservation Journals:  http://www.jmc.mwc.edu/library/historicpreservationjournals.htm

US/ICOMOS  (International Council on Monuments and Sites) has a brief overview of preservation in the U.S. and a helpful set of links: http://www.icomos.org/usicomos/PreservationInUSA/Overview_English.htm