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Call for Articles: Emerging History Professional Takeover of History News Magazine
Emerging History Professionals are taking over the Winter 2018 issue of AASLH’s History News magazine! The issue will be guest co-edited by [...]
Service in Cultural Heritage
Elizabeth Cruzado Carranza (center) with students from the Maria Parado de Bellido Nº 88104 school in Nivín, Peru. (This blog [...]
Got Icelandic? This Project is Cataloging Icelandic Immigrant Manuscripts at U.S. Historical Organizations
During the late 19th Century and early 20th Century, thousands of Icelanders immigrated to North America. The majority settled in Canada—mostly in a [...]
How Heritage Museums & Gardens Use Visitors Count to Make Unforgettable Visitor Experiences
Working on the Visitors Count project for the last couple of years has been a satisfying experience of learning where [...]
What Taking History to Underserved Communities Taught Me About Museum Education
This summer, I am completing a fellowship program through The Columbus Foundation at the Ohio History Connection. I have been [...]
Catalina Island Museum Announces Executive Director Transition
The Catalina Island Museum in Avalon, California (members since 2001) announces the upcoming departure of its Executive Director, Dr. Michael [...]
Why Religious History is Essential to a Thriving Democracy
Old abandoned white wooden chapel on prairie at sunset with cloudy sky. In 1822, Thomas Jefferson wrote a [...]
Kent State University May 4 Visitor Center
On May 4, 1970, thirteen students at Kent State University were gunned down while protesting the nation’s war activities. This day forever changed the landscape [...]
Free & Safe: The Underground Railroad in Vermont
Through their historic house, the Rokeby Museum has engaged visitors with the story and significance of the Underground Railroad for decades. However they felt it [...]
Freedom's Call Essay Contest
In 2013, the Tennessee State Museum hosted the original Emancipation Proclamation as a part of a larger exhibit from the National Archives. The museum wanted [...]
Seeing the Elephant
"Seeing the Elephant" is the term Civil War soldiers used to describe their first experience with combat. A new, in-the-round movie experience entitled Seeing the [...]
Voices of the Vigil
The plight of Soviet Jews, persecuted and imprisoned for practicing Judaism or attempting to emigrate, drew national attention and became a U.S. foreign policy issue [...]
Detroit Historical Society Past>Forward Exhibitions
Prior to 2012, the Detroit Historical Museum had its share of strategic issues. First, the museum's core permanent exhibitions were more than 20 years old, [...]