Blog Posts About THC

By Colleen Dilenschneider, Chief Market Engagement Officer for IMPACTS Research and Development

We’re only one month away from the Real Places 2019 conference taking place in Austin on January 16-18. I’m thrilled to share market research at the conference and shine a light on what motivates potential visitors to historic places to become actual visitors. There’s a lot of fun...

By Lila Rakoczy, THC Military Sites Program Coordinator 

Signs of the First World War are all around us—hiding in plain sight, in fact. One obvious but overlooked place is local cemeteries. For those with an interest in World War I, grave markers are an invaluable source of information about the men and women who served. 

After World War I, the repatriation of American dead...

By Lila Rakoczy, THC Military Sites Program Coordinator

On November 11, 1918, a 30-year-old Texan in the Intelligence Section of the 360th Infantry Regiment reflected in his diary on the day’s events:

“The orders called for continuing the artillery fire with the same intensity until eleven in the morning, when the hostilities would be suspended for thirty-five days....

By Nina Simon, Executive Director, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History

This article was originally featured in the October 2018 issue of Main Street Matters.

Nina Simon is the keynote speaker during Thursday’s Real Places Conference 2019 lunch session. She has been called a “museum visionary” by Smithsonian Magazine, a Silicon Valley Business Journal “40 under 40,” and Santa...