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An effort is underway to digitally document a Roanoke Valley site where enslaved people once lived and worked.

A BGSU team developed the tri-coating system with the National Park Service in mind, but has seen additional uses and applications through promising research.

Two and a half years after Detroit's convention scene went dark, a pitter-patter of conventions, trade events and business meetings has begun to emerge.

It’s not an uncommon story for cultural artifacts, or tribal property to go missing or fall into the wrong hands. A less common story? For those objects to be returned. In Sitka this July , a Kik.sadi clan house was repatriated after nearly 20 years in the possession of another clan. Its new legal owner, Jerrick Hope-Lang, hopes the historic exchange will spur a greater conversation about repatriation.

The Conference Committee for the 14th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference is accepting presentation proposals for the upcoming conference with the theme, “Supernatural Louisiana,” September 16-17 at Northwestern State University.

Galer has been actively engaged in historic preservation and adaptive reuse for more than three decades. Even before he finished his undergraduate studies, he completed building surveys and documentation for what is now Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park. In his early 20s, Galer fostered numerous collaborations between architects, archeologists, historians, and curators. Before stepping in to helm the BPA in 2012, Galer was an independent consultant who worked across dozens of hist...

Keast & Hood, the Philadelphia-based structural engineering firm known for designing new buildings with leading architects and for preserving some of the nation’s most iconic historic structures, is excited to announce the transition to its third generation of ownership. On …

Poverty Point World Heritage Site is an ancient earthwork made of mounds and ridges located in West Carroll Parish.

Poverty Point World Heritage Site is an ancient earthwork made of mounds and ridges located in West Carroll Parish.

These earthworks, together with a buried, mound-like feature with unique soil properties unlike any of the known earthworks at the site, demonstrate that the Plaza at Poverty Point has a more elaborate construction history than we knew. Diana...