Raising our Sails, Raising a Workforce… 46th Annual Conference on Sail Training and Tall Ships San Pedro, California – February 25th-27th, 2019 Tall Ships America’s Conference on Sail Training and Tall Ships is held annually and known for its high “take away value” in the industry, networking opportunities and camaraderie. During the conference hundreds of ships’ masters, crew members, program administrators, educators, environmentalists, port representatives, festival managers and more gather for an information-packed three day conference. Topics include vessel operations,…

The First World Congress on Maritime Heritage will chart new ground and create a string of tangible and intangible benefits that flow from this first ever gathering. At the very least the Congress will: • Promote the interests and value of maritime industries; • Enhance the attention, visitation, and interests of maritime museums, historic places, and heritage organizations; • Result in new cross-sector relationships and partnerships; • Serve as a vehicle for international organizations to better connect communities by demonstrating…

The National Council on Public History (NCPH) is a membership association dedicated to making the past useful in the present and to encouraging collaboration between historians and their publics. Our work begins in the belief that historical understanding is of essential value in society.

Connecticut Convention Center Hartford, Connecticut March 27-30, 2019

Cavalier Ebanks Galleries is proud to announce Maarten Platje's travelling exhibition, The Early History of the United States Navy will be coming to our Greenwich gallery for a special 10-day exhibition from April 8th to April 18th, 2019. For the past five years, Maarten Platje (Dutch, b. 1967) has been working to bring to life the most important battles of the early United States Navy in a series of 15 oil paintings. Using both extensive historical research and surveys of the battle sites,…

Taking its critical cue from New Orleans’s unique liminal position on the Gulf Coast, Water logics starts from the shoreline as a threshold, as a point of departure away from land. Beyond the shore, where land meets water, how can water and bodies of water be conceived? To what forms of thought, art, literature, or politics do they give shape? The Gulf Coast’s porosity blurs the very notion of the shore as a cartographic threshold point: the land emerges from water and…