Ghost Tours: Marketing Hype or Spiritual Quest?
The 2016 Ghostbusters reboot begins with an actual ghost causing problems after a docent finishes a tour at a "haunted" historic [...]
Relevancy on the Prairie: Lawrence Welk’s Childhood Home
The Welk Homestead State Historic Site, located near Strasburg, ND. Photo by Diane Rogness . The Welk Homestead State Historic [...]
Women Who Mentor: Mindy Porter, Director of Education, Scott Family Amazeum
The Scott Family Amazeum. One of the founding objectives of the Women’s History Affinity Group at AASLH is to “[foster] [...]
How the New London Public Museum Used the StEPs Program to Achieve National Standards
Charles Carr, a local newspaperman and citizen scientist, founded the New London Public Museum in New London, Wisconsin in 1917. [...]
AASLH Welcomes Two Summer Interns
Makiki Reuvers is the summer Archives Assistant here at AASLH. Her primary project during this internship is to process and [...]
Whiskey, Slavery, and Efforts to Make Corporate Histories More Diverse
For many corporate museums and archives, it is tough to change the historic narrative of the company. Marketing is involved, [...]
AASLH Emerging History Professionals Welcome New Committee Member: Lauren O’Brien
The AASLH Emerging History Professionals Affinity Community is please to announce a new committee member. Lauren O’Brien is a museum [...]
Come See…The Crowd
The holiday season is often one of the busiest visitation times for many of our sites. For those sites that charge admission, this can equal big [...]
Digging for History: Archaeology at Strawbery Banke
Conant HouseScullery Addition Strawbery Banke Museum, a 10-acre outdoor history museum in Portsmouth, NH, has long used archaeological data to aid in the [...]
Handling the Holidays – How Does Your Institution Do It?
Seasons greetings! Ok, so it's not the Chandler Museum, but this photo of the luminarias at the Desert Botanical Garden in neighboring Phoenix is [...]
FREE Webinar on AASLH Awards and How to Apply
What are the AASLH Leadership in History Awards and Why Should I Apply? Have you always wondered what the AASLH awards program is? Or, do [...]
AASLH Presents First Joint Video with NCPH and Institute of Oral History
AASLH, the National Council on Public History (NCPH), and the Institute of Oral History, are pleased to present our first joint video, "Tips for Getting a [...]
Top AASLH Blog Posts for 2014
Thank you to all AASLH bloggers for a great year of content, advice, and thought from the field. As we close out the year, let’s [...]