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Is the Greater Lyttonsville Sector Plan bad planning?

Residents who will be impacted by a new master plan proposed for a part of Montgomery County, Maryland, asked me to testify at a hearing before the Montgomery County Council. This post contains the...

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Historic preservation shines a light on a dark past

In October 2016, the National Council on Public History published an e-book titled Preserving Places: Reflections on the National Historic Preservation Act at Fifty From The Public Historian. The...

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Silver Spring’s monument to white supremacy

In 1998, crews demolished the Silver Spring Armory. Located in the heart of the suburban Washington suburb’s central business district (CBD), the Armory occupied prime real estate earmarked to provide...

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A lifeline for the Talbot Avenue Bridge

Now that Silver Spring, Maryland’s, Talbot Avenue Bridge has a new history can it also have a new future? Last year Montgomery County officials and many county residents learned that the Talbot Avenue...

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Ada Dupree and the Moses Cemetery: stories linked by race

Ada Dupree (1887-1991) lived a long and consequential life. She moved to the small Florida town of Esto in 1902 at age 15. For the rest of her life, she and her family were among the few people of...

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“Black lives matter, alive or dead”

“Black lives matter, alive or dead” — poet Siki Dlanga Several dozen people participated in a rally and march to support the recognition and preservation of the Moses Cemetery in Bethesda, Maryland....

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River Road Moses Cemetery report released

The results of research into the history of Bethesda, Maryland’s River Road Moses Cemetery are presented in this report first released to the dispersed descendant community and government agencies in...

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Housing Opportunities Commission statement on River Road Moses Cemetery

Delivered to the Montgomery County Housing Opportunities Commission. STATEMENT OF DR. DAVID ROTENSTEINFebruary 6, 2019 Good afternoon. My name is David Rotenstein and I am here to speak in support of...

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Where are the pictures?

I recently took a group of public history students to the Black history exhibits in the redeveloped Beacon municipal center in Decatur, Georgia. Ever since the space opened in 2015, I have described it...

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History is repeating itself at the site of a historic Black cemetery in...

Peter Paul Brown must be turning in his grave if he knows about the kerfuffle over one of the cemeteries owned by the Black benevolent organization he founded in 1867. The Philadelphia physician who...

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