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5 Ways to Make Your Historic House Museum Visitors Feel at Home (Even with Uncomfortable Topics)

By |February 14th, 2022|Categories: Aaslhblog, Best Practices, Education and Interpretation, Historic Houses|Tags: , , , , |

By Bethany L. Hawkins, Chief of Operations, AASLH One common criticism of historic house museums is they are static and impersonal. [...]

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Finding Our Way Together

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By John Dichtl, President and CEO, AASLH Eight weeks into the pandemic (or more, depending on what part of [...]

AASLH Announces 2018 Leadership in History Award Winners

By |June 18th, 2018|Categories: Annual Meeting, Best Practices, Exhibits, Programming, Small Museums|Tags: , , , |

AASLH is proud to announce the winners of the 73rd annual Leadership in History Awards, the most prestigious recognition for achievement in the preservation and [...]

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African-American Female Athletes Before Integration: Ways To Chronicle Their History Before It’s Too Late

By |June 15th, 2018|Categories: Education and Interpretation, Small Museums, Women's History|Tags: , , , , |

By Evin Demirel When Alma Byrd won an Arkansas state basketball title in 1939, she had never played on a wood court before. Byrd grew [...]

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The Personal is Professional: Reckoning with Slavers in the Family

By |June 4th, 2018|Categories: Collections, Education and Interpretation, Historic Houses|Tags: , , , , |

By Sarah Jencks, Director of Education and Interpretation, Ford's Theatre My parents are in their seventies, and they still live in the same house they [...]

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Four Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in May

By |May 31st, 2018|Categories: Best Practices, Small Museums, StEPs|Tags: , , , |

We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program designed specifically for small to [...]

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Join the Blue Star Museums Program!

By |May 23rd, 2018|Categories: Audience, Exhibits, Historic Houses, Small Museums|Tags: , , , , , , |

Blue Star Museums is a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 2,000 museums [...]

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