Monthly Archives: July 2025

Building for the Future: Cultural Heritage & Climate with Nina Jean-Louis

| July 28, 2025

Today we’re talking with Nina Jean-Louis, a structural engineer passionate about bridging engineering, cultural heritage, and climate science to design culturally sensitive strategies that help communities safeguard their heritage sites from climate change impacts. Her research involves transdisciplinary methodologies merging qualitative and quantitative approaches to holistically quantify cultural landscape resilience in co-production with community relational […]

Tailcoats to Tan Suits: Presidential Fashion with Summer Anne Lee

| July 21, 2025

Today’s episode threads history through the needle of style as we welcome our first-ever fashion historian, Summer Anne Lee. Based in Brooklyn and teaching at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Summer joins us to talk fashion and the wardrobes of America’s commanders-in-chief with her forthcoming book, Presidential Fashion: An Illustrated History, set to be published […]

Trades Takeover with John Chan of Durable Restoration

| July 14, 2025

Trades Takeover is back! In this episode, Director of Historic Trades Natalie Henshaw speaks with John Chan, Principal and Executive VP for the Durable Slate Company. John is a nationally recognized expert in historic roofing and a passionate advocate for preserving traditional roofing methods. He started slate, tile and copper roofing at The Durable Slate […]

Giants of Urban Design with Thomas Campanella

| July 7, 2025

We’re sitting down with Thomas Campanella, historian and author of the new book, Designing the American Century: The Public Landscapes of Clarke and Rapuano, 1915–1965. Tune in as we talk about two unsung giants of American landscape and urban design. Thomas J. Campanella is professor of urban studies and city planning at Cornell University and Historian-in-Residence […]