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What’s the Queerest House in your Neighborhood? Join The History Project and Hilary Iris Lowe of Temple University and Nicole Mello of the Longfellow House – Washington’s Headquarters National Historic site for a presentation on house museums and a case study of the interpretation of LGBTQ+ history over the last 200 years.

Lowe and Mello will discuss the histories that can be found in the archives at the poet’s house, now a historic site managed by the National Park Service. The talk will span generations, from minister Samuel Longfellow and preservationist Alice Longfellow to the home’s first socialist and queer curator, Harry Dana (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana).

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Nicole Mello specializes in queer history. A ranger at the Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters (https://www.nps.gov/long/index.htm), they explore the queer history of the site and of those who lived in the home. They do anything and everything they can to shine lights onto queer figures throughout history through programming, creative materials, and - of course- lots and lots of research.

Hilary Iris Lowe, Associate Professor of History, serves as the Director of Temple University’s Center for Public History, where she trains students as public historians. She specializes in the history of museums in the U.S. and produces both interdisciplinary academic scholarship and community-based public research projects with collaborators. Learn more about her work at https://sites.temple.edu/hilowe/.

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This event is free and open to the public, any donations made will support The History Project's mission to document, preserve, and share LGBTQ history. Thank you for your support!