History is Now

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…

Grand Teton National Park (USA)

Located in northwestern Wyoming, Grand Teton National Park and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway preserves a spectacular landscape rich with majestic mountains, pristine…

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…

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park (USA)

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park is located in Dorchester County, Maryland and was created to commemorate the life of Harriet Tubman an American hero…

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…

Historical Memory Project (USA)

The Historical Memory Project documents and advocates for truth, historical memory, justice, and public access to state violence, war, and genocide archives in Latin America….

Indiana Historical Society (USA)

Since 1830, the Indiana Historical Society (IHS) has connected people to the past by collecting, preserving, and sharing the state’s history. IHS maintains a research…

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…

James Monroe Museum (USA)

The James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library is dedicated to the study, interpretation and presentation of the life and times of the fifth President of…

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…

Stonehurst – The Robert Treat Paine Estate (USA)

Stonehurst, the country place of social reformer Robert Treat Paine, is an American masterwork designed by architect Henry Hobson Richardson and landscape architect Frederick Law…

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…

SCLC Pavilion (USA)

The goal of Felicity Redevelopment, Inc. is the revitalization of the lower St. Charles Corridor neighborhood, locally know as Central City. Once a vital part of…

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;…

The National Alliance of Faith and Justice (USA)

The National Alliance of Faith and Justice (NAFJ) is a nonprofit international network of affiliated organizations, sites, and leaders whose mission is to promote the…

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…

The Robert Hicks Foundation

The Robert “Bob” Hicks Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose mission is to restore the Robert Hicks House and 1906 Mill House in Bogalusa, Louisiana…

New York Folklore Society

Founded in 1944, the New York Folklore Society (NYFS) is New York’s only statewide organization dedicated to the understanding of and support for the folk…

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…