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Field Services Alliance Tips: Re-opening Museums During COVID-19
By Laura Casey, Museum Services Coordinator, Texas Historical Commission, Austin, TX The Problem: The arrival of COVID-19 in January 2020 and [...]
How Do You Document Nothing?
By Harry Klinkhamer The COVID-19 pandemic has gripped the nation and the world. It has shut down economies and closed everything [...]
Episodes of Change: A Long View of Museum-Making in America
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis The long-term impact of the pandemic on American museums is hard, if not impossible, to [...]
Five Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in March
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s [...]
Five Things to Know about Light in Your Museum Space
This post is brought to you by our Field Services Alliance Affinity Community. By Todd S. Mahon, State History Services [...]
StEPs Spotlight: Our Latest Gold Graduate, the Greeneville Greene County History Museum
Exciting changes are happening at the more than 1,000 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program [...]
Evaluate to Advocate: Gathering Data to Tell Your Story
Read parts one and two of the advocacy series. By Sean Blinn, Programming Director, Heritage Trail Association, Bridgewater, NJ In previous [...]
Including Marginalized Voices and Addressing Controversial Topics: Seven Award-Winning Ideas
Slavery and Freedom in Savannah Interpreting the history of marginalized peoples and addressing controversial topics can be intimidating. To help you prepare for [...]
State Histories: Big Questions in Small Places
For many of us, the love of history began with the desire to better understand where we as individuals, or members of a group came [...]
What the Federal Budget Means for History Organizations
On May 4, Congress approved a $1.1 trillion omnibus appropriations bill that will fund the federal government for the rest of fiscal year (FY) 2017. President Trump [...]
Get Ready for AASLH 2017 with these Six Books on Texas History
Tejano Monument in Austin During the 2016 Annual Meeting Program Committee Meeting in Detroit, Bob Beatty said “All of you need to read [...]
Religion in Museums: The New Book
Photo via religioninmuseums.wordpress.com Just ten or so years ago museums almost entirely ignored religion. Sure, archaeology and anthropology museums paid attention, but most [...]
Will the High Tide of a National Designation Raise All Women’s History Boats?
Will the high tide of a national designation raise all women’s history boats? Just over one year ago, the former Sewall-Belmont House & Museum (SBHM) [...]