A Well-Regulated Press

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Education

Education connects historical evidence with learners of different ages, interests, and levels of experience.

A Well-Regulated Press develops books, classroom resources, educational activities, research, presentations, and public programs that provide different ways to explore the people, objects, places, and questions of the past.

The Prescott Girls: A Letter from Philadelphia

Historical fiction grounded in artifacts, family records, historic places, material culture, and research provides an accessible way for younger readers and families to encounter the world of the Prescott sisters.

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Teacher Resources

Classroom and study resources for grades 4–7 use the people, artifacts, places, and themes of The Prescott Girls to support history, literacy, geography, artifact analysis, and critical thinking.

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Educational Books

The Pownalborough Court House Activity Book and Coloring Book invite younger visitors to learn through observation, puzzles, activities, historic objects, architecture, and hands-on engagement.

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Pownalborough Court House & HABS

The 1936 Historic American Buildings Survey of the Pownalborough Court House is presented as an educational resource that helps readers understand historic architecture, preservation, measured drawings, documentary photography, and the work of HABS.

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Historical Research

Original research gives readers, educators, researchers, and others an opportunity to move beyond the narrative and explore the evidence, discoveries, people, places, and interpretive work behind the projects.

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Public Speaking & Programs

Talks, museum and historical-society programs, conference presentations, and workshops bring historical research, interpretation, and public-history methods directly to audiences, educators, and museum professionals.

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Learning Through Engagement

Education can begin with a story, an artifact, an activity, a research paper, or a conversation. The form changes with the audience, but the goal remains the same: creating meaningful ways to engage with history.

Interpretation helps make evidence understandable. Education creates opportunities to learn from it. Community extends that work through relationships and collaboration.