Visitation at Historic House Museums
By John Garrison Marks and W. Maclane Hull This is post number three in our series exploring the National Visitation Report. [...]
Small is Mighty: Visitation Growth Strongest at Small History Organizations
By John Garrison Marks and W. Maclane Hull Over the course of this week, we will be providing deeper dives on various components [...]
Announcing the AASLH National Visitation Report
By John Garrison Marks, Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives, AASLH AASLH is excited today to publish our first-ever National Visitation Report. After surveying [...]
33 AASLH Members Receive Over $6 Million in NEH Grants
This month, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $43.1 million in grants for 218 humanities projects. [...]
FSA Tips: Visitor Services Beyond the Front Desk
By Jeannette Rooney, Assistant Director, Local History Services, Indiana Historical Society When we think of visitor services, we often imagine that [...]
Still Time to Add Events for #AASLH18
Harry S. Truman National Historic Site Are you waiting until you get to Kansas City to purchase tickets [...]
American National Biography Seeks Contributors for Local and Regional Stories
By Jo Payne, Head of Biographical and General Reference, Oxford University Press Our masthead proudly proclaims “The life of a nation [...]
Texas Story Project
The "Texas Story Project" launched November 2014 as a component of the Bullock Texas State History Museum’s website. The project was designed to expand the reach [...]
A Journey to the Moon through Texas
The Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) launched "A Journey to the Moon through Texas," a web exhibit showcasing selected films of NASA’s Apollo program from [...]
Conquering the Fear of Fundraising at Museums and Historic Sites
The leadership team for our largest fundraiser, History with a Twist. In honor of the 50th anniversary of our founding, we had a 1960s [...]
A Historic House Exposed: Why Millermore is Pulling Back the Curtain for Visitors
The Master Bedroom currently contains all of the modern things that complete a historic home. In honor of Dallas Heritage Village's 50th anniversary, [...]
Civil Rights and a Civil Society
Supervisors to first-responders attend training offered by staff of the Civil Rights Room of the Nashville Public Library. This article was originally published [...]
Hallowed Grounds: Sites of African American Memories
In February 2016, Stones River National Battlefield (SRNB) in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, debuted two public programs to celebrate Black History Month. On February 6, the park [...]