Posted on June 2, 2008 by Max van Balgooy
Eighteen of the 29 National Trust Historic Sites are National Historic Landmarks, the nation’s highest recognition of historical significance, and join about 2500 other NHLs (by comparison, there are about 80,000 sites on the National Register). They range widely in time from Acoma Sky City (about 1200) to Farnsworth House and Glass House (both from [...]
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Posted on May 21, 2008 by Max van Balgooy
Hollywood’s most famous archaeologist will be returning to the big screen this week with the movie debut of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Though the action-packed adventures of Indiana Jones may inspire the fantasies of aspiring archaeologists, it is the real-life work that can be found this summer at James Madison’s [...]
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Posted on March 11, 2008 by Max van Balgooy
This second report on the WebWise 2.0 covers the project demonstrations and the session on “The Power of Discovery” from Thursday morning and only highlights those portions that most closely relate to historic sites. If you want to learn more, visit webwise2008.fcla.edu for the agenda and links to the demonstration projects (and there was a [...]
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