WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP).- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is endorsing a federal commission’s call to build a national museum devoted to American Latino art, history and culture next to the Capitol as part of the Smithsonian Institution. In an interview w…
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Endorses American Latino Art Museum Plan
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP).- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is endorsing a federal commission’s call to build a national museum devoted to American Latino art, history and culture next to the Capitol as part of the Smithsonian Institution. In an interview w…
Visitors to National Park Service’s New Museum in Pearl Harbor Now Get Japan and United States View
PEARL HARBOR (AP).- Political assassinations in Tokyo. Censorship and the stifling of dissent. A nation hungry for oil and other natural resources. Kimono-clad women in department stores and boarding street cars. A smiling Babe Ruth posing for photos …
Former President Bill Clinton’s Boyhood Home in Hope Opens Doors as Clinton Museum
HOPE, AK (AP).- Bill Clinton’s boyhood home in Hope has been open as a museum for more than a decade, but this is the first year that visitors are seeing the home as part of the National Park Service. The home became a national historic site at the st…
Concerns Over Indian Remains Stall LA Museum Grant
By: Jacob Adelman, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP).- More than $104,000 in federal grant money could be withheld from a Los Angeles County-supported museum if officials fail to resolve American Indian tribes’ concerns over remains found during the fa…
New Visitors Center for US Anthem’s Birthplace
By: Sarah Brumfield, Associated Press
BALTIMORE (AP).- After decades of making do with a small, outdated visitor center, the Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine is getting new space and an update for the 21st century, just in time for t…
International Center of Photography Awarded "Save America’s Treasures" Grant
NEW YORK, NY.- The International Center of Photography (ICP) has been awarded a “Save America’s Treasures” grant from the National Park Service (NPS) and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH). It is one of 61 grants a…
Save America’s Treasures Grant Program Announces $14.3 Million in Awards
WASHINGTON, DC.- Today, the National Park Service (NPS) and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) jointly announced the awarding of $14.3 million in federal competitive Save America’s Treasures (SAT) grants. The grants are mad…
Unmarked Graves Found at Veteran Cemetery in Mississippi
By: Holbrook Mohr, Associated Press
VICKSBURG, MISS (AP).- Authorities said Thursday they fear dozens of veterans could lie in unmarked graves at a Mississippi military cemetery after they found two unidentified coffins and used radar to detect other …
Clinton Home Readies for New Historic Site Status
HOPE, ARK (AP).- The home in Hope where Bill Clinton spent the first four years of his life will officially be a national historic site as of Jan. 2. Organizers worked for years to earn the status for the Clinton First Home Museum on Hervey Street. Mo…