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New Tool Available from the History Relevance Initiative

By |April 2nd, 2020|Categories: Aaslhblog, Audience, Best Practices, Education and Interpretation, Programming|Tags: , , , , , |

By Tim Grove, Grove History Consulting Relevance is a concept that can be hard to grasp. Most organizations assume they are [...]

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Three Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in March

By |April 1st, 2020|Categories: Collections, Education and Interpretation, Small Museums, StEPs|Tags: , , , |

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 [...]

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  • The StEPs logo, in which the letters of S-T-E-P-S are typed above a curved brush stroke that is lower on the left and higher on the right. Text below logo reads Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations.

Six Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in November

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We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s [...]

StEPs Spotlight: The Black Heritage Society of Washington State on Becoming Better Stewards of Their Collections

By |February 17th, 2017|Categories: Administration, StEPs|Tags: , , , , , |

Exciting changes are happening at the 800+ organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations). Our "StEPs Spotlight" series [...]

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Idealism, Ego, and Wising Up: Having My Idealism Crushed Helped My Career

By |February 16th, 2017|Categories: Professional Development|Tags: , , , , , |

When I was in my mid-20s I was working on a community engagement grant project that involved bringing K-12 students and community members (from an [...]

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Bridging the Divide: Connecting Stagville’s Past to Its Modern Community

By |February 16th, 2017|Categories: Education and Interpretation, Historic Houses|Tags: , , , , , , , |

  Row of original slave dwellings, including one renovated by sharecroppers. Courtesy of Historic Stagville Photograph Archive. By Jayd Buteaux, Assistant Site Manager at [...]

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4 Ways Historic House Museums Can Create More Meaningful Visitor Experiences

By |February 15th, 2017|Categories: Best Practices, Exhibits, Historic Houses, Musings & Trends, Programming|Tags: , , , |

The Ropes Mansion Every year, AASLH receives over 100 nominations for our Leadership in History Awards, which recognize organizations doing "Good History." Our Awards committee [...]

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Baby Boom II: Motherhood and Museums One Year Later

By |February 14th, 2017|Categories: Best Practices, Small Museums, Staff|Tags: , , , , |

To my astonishment, Baby Boom: Motherhood and Museums has consistently been one of the most popular AASLH blog posts since it was published a year [...]

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Networking for Emerging History Professionals

By |February 14th, 2017|Categories: Emerging Professionals, Musings & Trends|Tags: , , |

Talking to other history professionals at the 2015 AASLH Annual Meeting Although museum/history professionals may not face the same problems or have the [...]

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