Warner Theater (1930) in Morgantown, WV.
Historic preservation is field specific to the United States of America, and it spans activist movements, professional practices, law and bureaucracy, scholarly research and public policy. This course aims to provide an overview of the current practices that comprise historic preservation, an understanding of the development of the field and practical knowledge of how to utilize historic preservation methods. We will hold the tools in our hands, but also question how it came to be that these are the tools that we use, and who decided that. In the first run of the course, there will be a special attention to the creation and reproduction of values through historic preservation practices. [HIST 409/609]