John Muir famously wrote, "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything in the Universe" (1988: 110). Such has been the case with Onondaga Lake that only through laws, legal entities, and the public functioning as a system, that the most polluted lake in the country has begun to regenerate. Cutting across the disciplines of history, environmental law and policy, environmental justice, and Federal Indian law, this research demonstrates how government efforts, community involvement, and Native American interests have been integrated into each stage of the remediation process to bring back this cultural and natural resource. The research addresses how the Onondaga Nation lost control of their territory as a result of interactions (some legitimate and some not) with state and federal governments and private citizens acting without authority. It illustrates how this loss, in combination with growing populations and industry, led to the degradation of the environment. Finally, it focuses on the legal actions taken by various stakeholders to address the Lake, specifically the Onondaga Nation's land rights action and the impact of the Lake's being named a Superfund site. vi TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures x

The Kentucky LGBTQ Heritage Context Study illustrates the promise and challenges of early investigations into LGBTQ history in a state in which queer life has rural and urban dimensions. In 2015-16, researchers from the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research at the University of Louisville partnered with an LGBTQequality organization to examine the history of LGBTQ people in Kentucky. Outcomes included the nation's first statewide LGBTQ context narrative, amendments to two National Register of Historic Places nominations, and new attention to underrecognized dimensions of LGBTQ experience. The project demonstrates the importance of existing relationships with LGBTQ communities and the difficulty of collecting archival material within the time constraints of a grant-funded project.

Is there a crisis in public history education and employment today? Many experienced public historians believe there is. This article examines issues related to public history training and recent efforts by the National Council on Public History to improve the quality of graduate programs in the field through targeted advice to students and educators. It focuses on the thinking behind development of the new best practices document, ''Establishing and Developing a Public History Program,'' which appears in full at the end of the article.

Abridged version of my 2004 Masters thesis published in London Archaeologist in 2011.  The tourist brochure for St. Pauls Cathedral, located within the walls of Roman Londinium, stated that "there has been a Cathedral standing on this site dedicated to St. Paul for 1000 years." However, in 604 AD the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Lundenwic was based west of the crumbling stone city, in the modern day Covent Garden/Strand area. Why would the newly converted fledgling Christians build a church in the area that they purposely avoided? The paper covers several topics leading to a theoretical conclusion, including Paganism, Final Phase burials, Saxon building techniques,  England's earliest minster churches, and the importance of grave goods.

This report was prepared for the Montana State Historic Preservation Office. The project fulfilled Section 106 obligations prior to historic preservation, and also accompanied a preservation field school.

Jack Taylor was a former slave who moved to Montana and became a successful property-owner, teamster and businessman.

New England is known for its harsh winters and sturdy people. But today, it is also known for its living history and surviving architecture, in particular, homes that are sometimes well over 200 years old but look as though they were constructed yesterday. While we can attribute their current condition to the people lucky enough to own and maintain them today, we must look to the people who, with Yankee ingenuity, fortitude, and craftsmanship, built these homes to withstand so many bitter winters-especially in the seacoast towns. This paper will not focus on the high-style homes of the governors and sea captains. Rather, it will focus on the modest, middle-class home that was constructed of wood and covered with clapboards, with a single central fireplace and perhaps later, a rear salt-box addition. The reader will go through the exterior building envelope system by system, learning traditional building methodology and materials. After reviewing the history, the paper will discuss contemporary conditions. Using archival research and informal interviews with preservation specialists, it will cover maintenance, adaptive reuse of historic fabric, and how much, if any, of a 268-year-old house, can possibly be original. In conclusion, using modern historic preservation methodology, recommendations will be made on how to keep the home standing for another 200 years, in the manner of a professional historic preservation maintenance manual.