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Of special interest to: Teachers engaged in community study and photography (please pass along to your colleagues!)
Re: We're looking for pictures of National Register-listed and signed places in your town
ICYMI--or looked at it a while back but then forgot about the site--I want to remind you about the existence of Historic Montana, a great resource for community study. The website and companion app, originally launched in 2017, started out with about 250 properties. Over the years, MHS historians have added over one thousand more historical narratives, thousands of “then and now” photos, and numerous new historic district and themed tours.
Historic Montana users learn about architecture; social, economic, and cultural life; and significant events and movements in Montana and national history as they relate to specific Montana places. With so much information and a variety of historic and contemporary photographs, Historic Montana is a valuable resource for teachers and students working on place-based Montana history projects. You can even use the text and photos to create your own walking tours.
We also invite you and your students to help shape history by making HistoricMT.org even better! If you have a class assignment that asks students to
- photograph National Register-listed buildings or districts to document your community,
- conduct new research on a National Register-listed site (or buildings that contribute to an NR district), or
- record interviews or podcast episodes about places in your town
we would love to feature it on HistoricMT.org. For more information on ways to use and improve Historic Montana, contact MHS Interpretive Historian Christine Brown at 406-444-1687 or Christine.brown@mt.gov.
Teaching Montana History is written by Martha Kohl, Outreach and Interpretation Historian at the Montana Historical Society.
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