Three Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in June
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 standards program [...]
Uniting Town and Gown: Municipal Museum Partners with Local Colleges
A portion of the Made for the Tourist Trade exhibition at the Greeley History Museum, open from January 18 – December [...]
AASLH Emerging History Professionals Group Welcomes New Committee Members
The AASLH Emerging History Professionals Affinity Community is please to announce five new committee members joining the EHP Committee for the 2017-2019 [...]
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? [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The DeBraak and Its Atlantic World
The HMS DeBraak, a British Royal Navy Sloop of War, tells the unique story of the role the state of Delaware played in international maritime [...]
Outside the Homeland: The Intermountain Indian School
Outside the Homeland: The Intermountain Indian School at the Brigham City Museum of Art and History chronicles the more than 30 years the Intermountain Indian [...]
Play the Past
The Minnesota Historical Society has created a new learning paradigm for student engagement through its Play with the Past program. This new model for field [...]
Cowboys, Real and Imagined
The New Mexico History Museum sought to draw visitors from across the state into an iconic regional narrative with their new exhibit. Using the museum's [...]
Rough Point Valance VIP Project
Rough Point is the English baronial-style summer residence of Doris Duke located in Newport, Rhode Island. In 1993 upon her death the estate was bequeathed [...]
Sisters of Loretto Heritage Center
The site of the Loretto Heritage Center and Archives is home to the Sisters of Loretto, a community of Catholic Sisters. Established in 1812 by [...]