Book Review: Moving Image and Sound Collections for Archivists
This review originally appeared in the Autumn 2018 issue of History News. Moving Image and Sound Collections for Archivists By Anthony Cocciolo [...]
Local Government: Who and What Is It?
Read part one of the advocacy series here. Memorial City Hall in Auburn, New York. By Sean Blinn, Programming Director, Heritage [...]
StEPs Spotlight: Monroe County Museum
Exciting changes are happening at the 1,000 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations). Our [...]
Call for Proposals: Monument Culture
Christopher Columbus statue in Providence, Rhode Island Call for Proposals for a new edited volume Monument Culture: International Perspectives [...]
Does Size Matter? What to Consider About Working at Small vs. Large Museums
When it comes to choosing a museum to work or intern at, many questions may come to mind. Where is [...]
Five Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in October
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in the last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study [...]
Building Relationships in a Small Community
When I heard the AASLH Annual Meeting was going to be in Austin, Texas in September, I knew I had [...]
Grant-Sponsored Training in Scientific Imaging Technologies for History and Museum Professionals
Here's an opportunity for historians, archivists, and museum professionals to receive grant-sponsored training in scientific imaging technologies: Who is CHI? Cultural Heritage Imaging (CHI) is [...]
Resources for Heritage Institutions Affected by Flooding in Louisiana
AASLH is reaching out to our constituents in the recent flood affected areas in Louisiana. As a member of the Heritage Emergency National Taskforce, AASLH [...]
How to Choose an Object Name for Cataloging an Abstract of Title
Lynne Sylvester of the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation in Florida has posed this question: I have to catalog an Abstract of Title and do not know what [...]
Cemeteries: The Eternal Classroom
When I read Michele M. Celani’s blog post about the effectiveness of historical markers in the classroom I thought “oh I know a bunch of [...]
Getting Schooled in History Relevance by Hamilton
By Bethany Hawkins, AASLH I am really late to the party. I just listened to the Hamilton: An American Musical for the first time [...]
The Legacy of Dime Museums and the Freakshow : How the Past Impacts the Present
This article was originally published in the Autumn 2013 issue of History News magazine. You can read the article in PDF format here: Stringer, Autumn 2013. I began [...]