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Taking History into Our Own Hand(icraft)s: Interpreting a Lost Douglass Site in Rochester
By Hinda Mandell, Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology Sometimes a bit of thread and yarn can offer a temporary fix [...]
Past, Present, and Future on Display at #AASLH17
Briscoe Center for American History By Zachary Stocks Like many attendees of the AASLH Annual Meeting in Austin this year, [...]
Calling All Writers: AASLH Wants Your Ideas #AASLHWRITES
The Editorial Board for AASLH’s book series with Rowman & Littlefield Press is actively seeking new book proposals. If you’re a good writer and have [...]
Finding Eleanor Pack: Challenges and Methods in Researching Domestic Staff at Nemours
Kitchen at Nemours, undated. Nemours Estate Archive. Historic estates are living in a post-“Downton Abbey” world and visitors [...]
A Few Simple Tips for Public Historians Working with Confrontational Visitors
An interpreter at Mackinac State Historic Parks, Michigan. This article was originally posted on Exploring the Past and is [...]
My 5 Favorite Props to Use in Programs
One thing that every interpreter has to do to be effective is to get and keep their audiences' attention. If [...]
Visitors and Originality in Historic House Museums: A Look at the Impact of Furnishing Plans
Library: Longfellow’s House – Washington Headquarters National Historic Site; By Daderot (Own work) [CC0] “Is everything original?” “Is [...]
Interpreting Slavery
This March, I and my colleagues from Belle Grove Plantation and the Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park in Middletown, Virginia had the [...]
Distance Learning: A Teacher’s Perspective, Part 2
Recently Dan Jones, an 8th grade social studies, reading, and language arts teacher at the Richland Academy School of Excellence in Mansfield, OH wrote about [...]
IKEA’s New Museum
I love industrial design and admire IKEA for making it accessible to the general public. Apparently, I’m not the only one. When IKEA opened its [...]
The Value of Distance Learning: A Teacher’s Perspective, Part 1
Dan Jones, an 8th grade social studies, reading and language arts teacher from the Richland Academy School of Excellence in Mansfield, OH, reached out to the [...]
Historic Columbia Receives State Preservation Award
AASLH Member Since 1960 and a 2015 Leadership in History Award Winner Historic Columbia Receives 2015 South Carolina Historic Preservation Heritage Tourism Award for Woodrow Wilson [...]
AASLH Announces 2015 Leadership in History Award Winners
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Bethany Hawkins [email protected] 615-320-3203 Sixty-One Recipients from Thirty-One States Receive Highest Honor from AASLH NASHVILLE, TN—June 2015—The American Association for State [...]