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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 […]

A Foundation for the Future with Benjamin Prosky from the Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation

| June 30, 2025

Today we’re on with Benjamin Prosky, president of the Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation, working to advance education, innovation, and stewardship in the fields of historic preservation, decorative arts, and historic landscapes. Listen in as Ben covers his preservation journey and the resources the Foundation stewards.

All Hands on Deck: a Maritime Story with Olive Theodore

| June 23, 2025

Join us as we sit down with Olive Theodore, founder of Walrus Boat Recycling, a nonprofit project centered around saving and upcycling boats, and the capital campaign manager of the Center for Wooden Boats, aiming to connect each of us to Seattle’s living maritime heritage of building, exploring, and using small boats through hands-on experiences. […]

Juneteenth at Williamsburg: Reclaiming the Story of the Bray School with Jack Gary

| June 19, 2025

On this special-release episode of PreserveCast, we’re sitting down with Jack Gary from Colonial Williamsburg’s Department of Archaeology to discuss the opening of a “new” site at Colonial Williamsburg. Today, on Juneteenth, Colonial Williamsburg is opening a powerful chapter of American history,  the Williamsburg Bray School, the nation’s oldest-known schoolhouse used to educate enslaved and […]

Preserving the Past for the Public with Susan McMahon

| June 9, 2025

This week we’re sitting down with Susan McMahon, Executive Director of the Landmark Trust USA, a nonprofit organization that preserves historic properties and makes them available as short-term vacation rentals. Susan has a background in community development and historic preservation. Historic preservation has always been a professional pursuit and a personal passion of hers.

Paper Trails with Kathryn Mayer

| June 2, 2025

On this week’s PreserveCast we’re joined by Kathryn Mayer, who built a searchable database of 19th-century coroner’s records with the Baltimore City Archives. We’re chatting about her project and more about how to evaluate historic information.

Historic Trades Apprenticeships with Natalie Henshaw

| May 19, 2025

On this week’s episode we’re talking with Natalie Henshaw, Director of The Campaign for Historic Trades. You may recognize Natalie’s name (and voice!) as she hosts PreserveCast’s Trades Takeover episodes, some of our most downloaded conversations here on PreserveCast. Listen in to learn about the value of historic trades, apprenticeship programs, the impact they’re having, […]