Links to Public History Organizations and Research Sites

Students in the Introduction to Public History class visiting the German Farm at the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia in Staunton.

National

• American Association for State and Local History (AASLH)  http://www.aaslh.org/

• American Association of Museums (AAM)  http://www.aam-us.org/

• American Historical Association (AHA)  http://www.historians.org/

• Association for Documentary Editing (ADE)  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ade/

• Association for Living History, Farm, and Agricultural Museums (ALHFAM) http://www.alhfam.org/

• Heritage Preservation Services, National Park Service  http://www2.cr.nps.gov/

• Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER)  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/index.html

• National Center for Preservation Technology and Training  http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/

• National Council on Public History (NCPH)  http://ncph.org/

• National Council for Preservation Education (NCPE) http://www.uvm.edu/histpres/ncpe/chart.html

• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) http://www.neh.gov/

• National Register of Historic Places  http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/index.htm

• National Park Service (NPS)  http://www.cr.nps.gov/

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

• Oral History Association (OHA) http://omega.dickinson.edu/organizations/oha/

• Organization of American Historians (OAH)  http://www.oah.org/

• Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)  http://www.sah.org/

• Society for Commercial Archaeology (SCA)  http://www.sca-roadside.org/

• Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA)  http://www.sha.org/

• Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)  http://www.shot.jhu.edu/

• Society for History in the Federal Government (SHFG)  http://www.shfg.org/

• Society for Industrial Archaeology (SIA)  http://www.ss.mtu.edu/ia/sia.html

• Society of American Archivists (SAA)  http://www.archivists.org/

• U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)  http://www.usgs.gov/

• U.S. National Archives & Records Administration  http://www.archives.gov/

• Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF)  http://www.vernaculararchitectureforum.org/

A museum interpreter at the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia teaches a student from the Introduction to Public History class how to process flax.

Local, Regional, and Virginia

• Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA), Richmond, VA http://www.apva.org/ 

• Augusta County Historical Society, Staunton, VA http://www.augustacountyhs.org/achs/ 

• Belle Grove Plantation, Middletown, VA http://www.bellegrove.org/default.htm 

• Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, Staunton, VA http://www.frontiermuseum.org/ 

• George C. Marshall Foundation Library, Lexington, VA http://www.marshallfoundation.org/library/index.html

• Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance, Harrisonburg, VA http://www.downtownharrisonburg.org/

• Heritage Center, Home of the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society, Dayton, VA http://www.heritagecenter.com/index.htm 

• Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA  http://www.lva.lib.va.us/

• Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, VA http://www.shenandoahmuseum.org

• Rockbridge Historical Society, Lexington, VA http://www.rockhist.org/ 

• Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation, New Market, VA http://www.shenandoahatwar.org/

• Virginia Association of Museums, Richmond, VA http://www.vamuseums.org/ 

• Virginia Department of Historic Resources (DHR), Richmond, VA http://www.dhr.state.va.us/

• Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH), Charlottesville, VA  http://www.virginia.edu/vfh/

• Virginia Genealogical Society, Richmond, VA http://www.vgs.org/ 

• Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA http://www.vahistorical.org/

• Virginia Quilt Museum, Harrisonburg, VA http://www.vaquiltmuseum.org

• Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Museum, Staunton, VA http://www.woodrowwilson.org

Students in the 2004 Introduction to Public History class visiting the site where the Bowman House, an early Rockingham County log dwelling, is being reassembled at the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia.

International

• English Heritage  http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/

• International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)  http://www.icomos.org/

• U.S. National Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (US/ICOMOS) http://www.icomos.org/usicomos/

Favorite Links

• Visit the Library of Congress American Memory Collection  http://memory.loc.gov/ for fabulous and ever-growing searchable historical collections, including photographs, sound recordings, documents, maps, and more.

• Looking for a job or internship in public history? One of the best resources is PreserveNet (at Cornell University)  http://www.preservenet.cornell.edu/ for the best and most up-to-date job and internship listings in historic preservation, historical archaeology, cultural resource management, museums, and more.

• Your state historic preservation office is the first place to go for information on historic resources in a particular area. The website at  http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/shpolist.htm contains a list of every state office in the country.

• If old maps interest you, check out the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection at http://www.davidrumsey.com/ for an incredible collection of historical maps, and now, an excellent collection of high-quality photographs of early American gravestones. The Farber Gravestone Collection contains more than 13,500 searchable images documenting the sculpture on more than 9,000 gravestones, most of which were made prior to 1800, in the Northeastern part of the United States.