History is Now

Eastern State Penitentiary (USA)

Eastern State Penitentiary was once the most famous and expensive prison in the world. Opened in 1829, the facility embodied a new philosophy: that prolonged…

Atlanta History Center (USA)

The Atlanta History Center, through its collections, programs and exhibitions, preserves and interprets subjects about the city and the region to Atlanta’s diverse audiences. The…

Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site (USA)

The story of Brown v. Board of Education, which ended legal segregation in U.S. public schools, is one of hope and courage. In December 1952,…

National Cambodian Heritage Museum & Killing Fields Memorial (USA)

Established in 2004, the National Cambodian Heritage Museum and Memorial provide exhibitions and resources for individuals and groups to learn about Cambodian history and culture,…

Kupferberg Holocaust Center and Archives (USA)

The Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center & Archives, part of Queensborough Community College (CUNY), uses the lessons of the Holocaust and other mass…

Minidoka National Historic Site (USA)

Minidoka National Historic Site is located in the western United States. It commemorates the more than 9,000 Japanese Americans who were imprisoned at the Minidoka War…

Lowell National Historical Park (USA)

The early story of America’s Industrial Revolution is commemorated at Lowell National Historical Park. In the midst of this lively city, the Park offers visitors…

Michigan State University Museum (USA)

The Michigan State University Museum is a public steward for nearly a million objects and specimens in Anthropology, Natural Science, Folk Arts, and History from around…

Minutemen Missile National Historic Site (USA)

Preserving the last remaining Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile Site in the upper Great Plains, the Site interprets the deterrent value of America’s nuclear defense…

National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library (USA)

The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library celebrates life. Czech life. Slovak life. American life. It is a museum that encourages self-discovery, a museum…

National Public Housing Museum (USA)

The National Public Housing Museum preserves, promotes and propels the right of all Americans to a place where they can live and prosper – a…

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (USA)

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center’s purpose is to tell the story of the struggle for freedom in the United States through exhibits and programs…

Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice (USA)

The Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice engages diverse communities to lift up the life and legacy of activists, legal scholars, feminists, poets,…

20th Century Illuminations – Beyond Genocide (USA)

20th Century Illuminations – Beyond Genocide focuses on the ways in which art can enable us to reflect on our most basic human rights. Since…

Detroit Historical Society (USA)

The Detroit Historical Society provides meaningful experiences that share the city’s history with all its community members. The Society operates the Detroit Historical Museum in the…

Connecticut Landmarks (USA)

Founded in 1936, Connecticut Landmarks (CTL) owns thirteen historic properties in Connecticut. Their seven house museums are starting points – landmarks in every sense – for…

Gettysburg Seminary Ridge Museum (USA)

The Gettysburg Seminary Ridge Museum provides a new and productive purpose for Schmucker Hall, built in 1832 as a state of the art museum with…

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center (USA)

Abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote perhaps the most influential novel of the 19th century, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Her words inspired many to fight against slavery and…

Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation (USA)

The Heart Mountain Wyoming – Annie E. Casey Foundation was formed in 1996 to preserve the site that represents a period in U.S. history following…

International Association for Integration, Dignity and Economic Advancement – IDEA (USA)

The International Association for Integration, Dignity and Economic Advancement – IDEA is building a global network of leprosy heritage sites – remote locations where individuals…

John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation (USA)

The John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation oversees Reconciliation Park, the long-awaited result of the 2001 Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921….

1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse (USA)

As the site of Genesee Yearly Meeting of Friends, the 1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse was a national crucible for major reform movements in the nineteenth…

America’s Black Holocaust Museum (USA)

America’s Black Holocaust Museum (ABHM) was founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1984 by Dr. James Cameron, who survived a lynching at age 16. It is…

James Madison’s Montpelier

James Madison’s Montpelier inspires public engagement with American constitutional self-government by bringing to life the home and contributions of James and Dolley Madison. Montpelier promotes…

Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation

Matilda Joslyn Gage was a progressive visionary of women’s rights and human liberation and an often unacknowledged leader who, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan…

The Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum

The Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum is an underground bunker that was meant to house 535 Canadian government officials and military officers in the event…

Levine Museum of the New South (USA)

The New South means people, places and a period of time — from 1865 to today. Levine Museum of the New South is an interactive…

National Hispanic Cultural Center (USA)

The National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) is dedicated to the preservation, promotion, and advancement of Hispanic culture, arts, and humanities. Since its grand opening in…

University of Texas – Borderlands Public History Lab (USA)

The UTEP Institute of Oral History was established as part of the Department of History in 1972 for the purpose of preserving the history of…

Manzanar National Historic Site

In 1942, the United States government ordered more than 110,000 men, women, and children to leave their homes and detained them in remote, military-style camps….

Japanese American National Museum (USA)

The Japanese American National Museum (Museu Nacional Nipo-Americano) is the only museum in the United States that promotes understanding and appreciation of America’s ethnic and…

Éist works to cultivate and promote community-based, post-conflict transformative justice through art, culture and media that focuses on first-person perspectives of justice and accountability, trauma…

Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial (USA)

The mission of the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial is to “promote respect for human dignity and diversity through education and to foster individual responsibility to work…

Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 (Canada)

The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 explores the theme of Canadian immigration to enhance public understanding of the experiences of immigrants as they…

The House of the Seven Gables (USA)

In the early 1900s, Salem, Massachusetts witnessed an influx of immigrants, mostly of Polish and Eastern European descent. Recognizing the need for social services for…

Whitney Heritage Plantation

The Whitney Plantation is the only plantation museum in the state of Louisiana with an exclusive focus on slavery. Visitors are invited to remember individuals…

Golden Gate National Recreation Area, National Park Service

Golden Gate National Recreation Area was established in 1972 as part of a movement to bring national parks to people living in urban areas. Since…

Tenement Museum (USA)

For more than two decades, the Tenement Museum has fulfilled its distinctive mission: to make tangible the profound role immigration plays in shaping American identity;…

Ford’s Theatre (USA)

The site of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, Ford’s Theatre honors Lincoln’s legacy and explores the American experience through theatre and education. A working theatre, historical monument,…

Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello

For nearly 100 years, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc. has maintained Monticello for the purpose of sharing it with the public. Tours and exhibitions at…

Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site

On September 4, 1957, nine African-American students were forcibly barred from entering a recently de-segregated public high school on the orders of their Governor. By…

Leona Tate Foundation for Change (USA)

On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of Brown vs. the Board of Education that racial segregation in the public…