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The Harrison Goodall Grant for Innovative Historic Preservation offers graduate students and enterprising professionals the opportunity to undertake a focused pursuit that makes a meaningful contribution to the field of historic preservation. Without an advanced...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an ambitious employment and infrastructure program created by President Roosevelt in 1935, during the bleakest years of the Great Depression. Over its eight years of existence, the WPA put roughly 8.5 million Americans to...

Hello everyone! My name is Jordan Riggs, and for the last 10 months, I have been a part of Preservation Maryland’s program The Campaign for Historic Trades as an AmeriCorp VISTA. While I have had many different projects since I joined the team, I wanted to take this...

Preservation Maryland’s 2022 Cemetery Preservation Workshops have begun! This series of workshops, which is generously funded through a grant from Rural Maryland Council and support from Preservation Maryland’s 2021 Save a Grave Campaign, introduces workshop...

The Campaign for Historic Trades is looking for a passionate, adventurous, and driven individual for a 12-month term position, hired through the Conservation Legacy Stewards AmeriCorps VISTA Program. This person will help The Campaign’s efforts to register...

As part of our mission to expand and strengthen careers in our field, the Campaign for Historic Trades is working to provide prospective tradespeople with clear career pathways and a broader understanding of the career opportunities that exist within historic...

The Campaign welcomes its newest Team Member, Zola Barnes! Zola joins The Campaign as its Cemetery Preservation Workshop Coordinator--a brand new position funded by a grant from the Rural Maryland Council. Zola will engage with communities throughout the state of...

The Campaign for Historic Trades is excited to announce a partnership with El Centro de Conservación y Restauración de Puerto Rico [CENCOR - Center for Conservation and Restoration of Puerto Rico]. The project is in part funded by the Historic Preservation Education...

Preservation Maryland and The Campaign for Historic Trades are hosting cemetery preservation workshops across Maryland, where participants learn the basic preservation techniques of caring for a cemetery. The first workshop will take place this Saturday, April 30th in...

On April 13, The Campaign for Historic Trades assisted the National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Training Center (HPTC) for career day with Frederick High School's Linking Youth to New Experiences (LYNX) program. LYNX promotes different pathways for students...

Earth Day was first celebrated on this day in 1970 when 20 million people attended events at sites across the United States. Originally designed to fight for environmental causes, today’s Earth Day mission is to diversify, educate and activate the environmental...

Today is the International Day for Monuments and Sites, also known as World Heritage Day. Created as a way to celebrate diversity and cultural heritage around the world, Preservation Maryland and The Campaign for Historic Trades are celebrating the value of history in...