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CSU’s The Audit podcast: Are we loving our national parks to death?
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Yosemite National Park welcomes more than 4 million visitors each year, but those visits come at a steep environmental cost. National parks historian Michael Childers discusses the impact of the…
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Kylee Cole (City of Fort Collins’ Historic Preservation Division, 2018)
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Read More: Kylee Cole (City of Fort Collins’ Historic Preservation Division, 2018)During the summer of 2018 I had the privilege to work at the City of Fort Collins’ Historic Preservation Division. My advisor Dr. Sarah Payne introduced me to Maren Bzdek who served as my supervisor during my internship and quickly became a valuable friend and mentor. From June to August,…
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Leslie Moore (Greater Portland Landmarks, 2019)
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Read More: Leslie Moore (Greater Portland Landmarks, 2019)I spent my summer interning at Greater Portland Landmarks in Portland, Maine. The local nonprofit hired four graduate-student interns to survey two neighborhoods in the city that will be impacted by rising sea levels. This climate change survey was the first of its kind in the state! For each building…
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Dustin Clark (Yellowstone National Park, 2017)
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Read More: Dustin Clark (Yellowstone National Park, 2017)What is Public History? I am always asked this question when I tell people I am a graduate student studying Public History. The National Council on Public History (NCPH) defines it as “history put to work,” which is what I did this summer at Yellowstone National Park (YNP). As a…
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Heidi Fuhrman
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Read More: Heidi FuhrmanNational Museum of American History, 2017 Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave in the hands of this CSU Ram? Heidi Fuhrman, a history major entering her senior year this fall, is spending her summer interning at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of American History in Washington D.C. As a Public…
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Ann Gebo
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Read More: Ann GeboU.S. National Archives, 2019 At the National Archives I worked in the reference department, meaning I was helping researchers. In particular, I was an intern for the Navy team, working primarily with Naval records. I helped researchers who came into the archives pull deck logs (day to day records logging…
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Michael Garside
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Read More: Michael GarsideFort Collins Museum of Discovery, 2019 During my spring semester at Colorado State University, I had the privilege of working as an intern for the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery(FCMOD). I was tasked to work for the archive team and assist on projects that would prove crucial for the organization.…
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Nick Unsell
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Read More: Nick UnsellAmerican Battle and Monuments Commission, 2019 During the summer I was granted the opportunity to work as an intern at the American Battle and Monuments Commission (ABMC) located in Paris, France. The ABMC is a federal agency whose mission is to operate and maintain American military cemeteries and monuments overseas…
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Union gunboats didn’t just attack rebel military sites – they went after civilian property, too
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Read More: Union gunboats didn’t just attack rebel military sites – they went after civilian property, tooDuring the American Civil War, huge metal monsters roamed the Mississippi River.
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Why are there seven days in a week?
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Read More: Why are there seven days in a week?The Babylonians were astute observers and interpreters of the heavens, and it is largely thanks to them that our weeks are seven days long.
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Trump’s border wall threatens an Arizona oasis with a long, diverse history
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Read More: Trump’s border wall threatens an Arizona oasis with a long, diverse historyWhile the waters of Quitobaquito have attracted a wide array of peoples for more than 10,000 years, each wave of newcomers tends to erase the evidence of those who came before them.