APT-DVC is hosting a members-only virtual book talk with author and professor, Whitney Martinko! This talk will focus on her recently published book, Historic Real Estate: Market Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the Early United States. She has graciously agreed to discuss the content that relates specifically to the Delaware Valley. Her talk will be followed by a Q & A and discussion. We encourage you to pick up her book ahead of time and come ready with thoughts and questions. Go to Penn Press to receive a 40% discount (with free shipping) until Aug. 19 with the code:
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Register to attend the talk HERE
Preservation's Public Good: 5 Lessons from the Past to Guide Preservation's Future
How can historic preservation serve the public good? Americans have been asking this question--and offering eclectic answers to it--for longer than we might imagine. In this talk, Dr. Whitney Martinko will highlight histories of historic preservation in the early United States that can help us reconsider this question today. From Independence Hall to Hudson Valley homes, early Americans debated what architectural forms and materials best preserved the past, how preservation could prevent--or promote--real estate speculation, and who should be empowered to make decisions about what buildings to preserve and demolish. Martinko offers thoughts about how these histories can help us to rethink how historic preservation today shapes economies, cities and suburbs, colonized land, and monumental landscapes.
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Whitney Martinko is an associate professor of History at Villanova University. She earned her AB in History from Harvard College and her MA and PhD in History from the University of Virginia. This talk draws from her new book, Historic Real Estate: Market Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the Early United States. Published by Penn Press in May, it is the first book-length study of historic preservation before the founding of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association in 1853. The attached flyer offers a summary of the book and a discount code for those who wish to read the book before the talk.