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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 for History [...]
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 posts about [...]
Shapell Roster Project Seeks Jewish Civil War Sources and Descendants
By Eliza Kolander, Outreach Specialist, Shapell Manuscript Foundation What began as an endeavor to corroborate a long-antiquated list of Jews who served [...]
Creating Connections Among Small Museums at #AASLH17
By Hannah King, Stevens County Historical Society, Morris, MN Thanks to the Small Museums Scholarship program, I was able to attend [...]
Continuing the Conversation to Change the Conversation
Ceiling of the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center. Conferences offer a break from the daily norm [...]
The Collective Wisdom of LAM at #AASLH17
Thanks to financial support from the Douglas Evelyn Scholarship for Diversity fund, I was able to attend the 2017 AASLH [...]
Coming to Terms with History at #AASLH17
September 6-9, the week of the AASLH Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas, was a heavy one. Being inundated with images [...]
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 streamline AASLH’s on-site institutional files. [...]
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, as well as long-held traditions [...]
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 educator and PhD student in [...]
AASLH’s StEPs Program Enrolls 800th Organization
We are excited to announce that our Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations has enrolled its 800th member, the Hearts Veterans Museum in Huntsville, Texas. [...]
Focusing On Guests with Special Needs: Examples and Insights from The Henry Ford
In recent years, there has been a growing trend among museums to place more attention on audiences with special needs. This has increasingly involved museums [...]
Be Relevant: Get Involved in National History Day
National History Day (NHD) was created in 1974 by a professor at Case Western Reserve University to combat the decline of the humanities in school [...]