We are going to talk about Historic Preservation. I want to introduce you to jordan tannenbaum. He is the vice chair of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, what is that organization . The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation is an independent federal agency, part of the executive branch. It is created by the national Historic Preservation act of 1966, and recently a couple of years ago its elevated its 50th anniversary. It is a regulatory agency, and, as we will say, has responsibilities not only in that area but also to advise the president and congress on members concerning preservation policy. The regulatory section is called section 106, that is a requirement that all federal agencies have to take into account the impacts of their projects. Of their undertakings, and that is broadly a permit of funding. License, connection nexus in any way that they have to take into account if they are going to have an effect on a Historic Property, or a potential Historic Property
Assets. But there are also quite a few with little more, a little more than a charitable arm of a small family enterprise, and their assets number in the thousands rather than the billions. Think about the constellation, 81,777, small ones, large ones. There are also then a handful of older foundations led by carnegie that have been dispensing grants and forwarding agendas for more than a century, all the emerge in the last decade with articulated vision about purpose, intent, scope. If carnegie symbolized the perpetuity foundation whose boards, missions and goals changed over decades, but whose work endured generation after generation after generation, among the more subtle changes that have really given birth in the last two years is the creation of a number of sunset foundations. These sunset foundations symbolized by gates or atlantic philanthropies which is about to cease operations in a few months, they are designed to close before the death of a benefactor, or in a specified num
What would we spend the second on . As we ponder the future, we have to expect that the humanities will continue to demonstrate a vibrant and dynamic tension between continuity and change. Longstanding disciplines such as literature, history, and philosophy remain ever important to humanistic scholarship and discovery. For nearly a quarter of a century, humanists have also embraced an aspect of interdisciplinary scholarship. Trauma specialists have studied psychoanalytic studies, and have found themselves entering comparative literature. The story of how medicine has worked with literary scholars to help craft the medical humanities. Historians and cultural anthropologists have created a conjoined field of history and anthropology. At the same time, media have participated in animating gender studies, sexuality studies, ethnic studies, as well as the contemporary incarnation of american studies. To remindse examples us of the invention and creativity that exploded in the last three dec
You a complete story about the people who live there, but once you start denigrating a site you are just ripping out pages out of that book woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by ive been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. The ones getting involved, staying engaged. They are not afraid to question the path theyre on. Because the one question they never want to ask is, how did i end up here . I started schwab with those people. People who want to take ownership of their investments, like they do in every other aspect of their lives. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs
People who live there, but once you start denigrating a site you are just ripping out pages out of that book woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by ive been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. The ones getting involved, staying engaged. They are not afraid to question the path theyre on. Because the one question they never want to ask is, how did i end up here . I started schwab with those people. People who want to take ownership of their investments, like they do in every other aspect of their lives. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you.