Any consideration of the display and interpretation of heritage sites demands reflection on three critical questions: • How should we experience a place, especially one…
Buildings and sites associated with large administrative institutions present challenges for historical interpretation. Often lacking immediate visual legibility or commonly known histories, these unwieldy places…
Apart from some cases related to the glories of nineteenth-century structural engineering and some isolated examples representing the avant-garde of the moment, world’s fair architecture…
Conceived, built, and briefly used over a thirty-year period, Mitchell/Giurgola’s Liberty Bell Pavilion housed and exhibited the single most venerated symbol of American democracy. Although…
Few historic sites in America are as well known and beloved as George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Arguably the birthplace of preservation in the United States,…
A gold-mining town in northeastern California that flourished during the 1870s and 1880s, Bodie has become known as one of the most extensive ghost towns…
Discussions of values and valuation constitute a substantial portion of the recent theoretical and policy discourse of heritage conservation. The contrast between many preservationists’ proclivity…
David S. Barnes is Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science and Director of the Health and Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania….
