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The Power of (Re-)imagination: Promoting Self-Care in the Workplace
Caitlin Williams was awarded a Small Museums Scholarship to attend the 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting. You can learn more about the AASLH Small [...]
Grappling with Unfolding Events
This article was originally published in the Summer 2016 issue of History News magazine, the official publication of AASLH. You can read the full article [...]
Her Hat Was In The Ring: How Digital Collections Can Transform Our Understanding of the Past
Amid all the discussions about the unprecedented campaign for U.S. president by a woman candidate, it is important to have historical perspective. [...]
Why Treaties Matter: Self-Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations
The Why Treaties Matter project represents a real and important “absent narrative” about the genesis of current culture. The goal [...]
Montana Women’s History Matters
On November 3, 1914, Montana joined nine other western states in extending voting rights to non-Native women. One hundred years [...]
Doing Our Part: Clay County in WWII
Using the Minnesota Historical Society traveling exhibit Homefront as a starting point, HCSCC staff researched, designed, and installed an innovative [...]
Chicken Hill: A Community Lost to Time
The suburban development of the Three Village area in the 1960s converted the residential area known as Chicken Hill into [...]
Can’t make it to Birmingham? Enjoy the AASLH Online Conference From Home!
Can’t make it to Birmingham this September? Why not get connected to the 2013 Annual Meeting through the 2013 AASLH Online Conference? Is our online [...]
UPDATE: Approaching Docent Training
Last July, I wrote a post called “Approaching Docent Training.” I talked about how we were in the middle of a massive renovation at the [...]
What I’m Looking for… (thoughts from a nine-year-old museum visitor)
Tyler (right) and her sister Ryan with Harry Potter's robe at the Smithsonian. This post is the second from my in-house (literally) focus [...]
Stop! Collaborate and Listen!
Collaboration is the key to survival in today's economic environment. It's no longer enough to do what you've always done, no matter how well you [...]
It’s Worth It! Hosting a Summer Camp
This post is by Kate Baldwin, Curator of Education at the Litchfield Historical Society in Litchfield, Conn. The Civil War Experience is the most [...]
A Touchy Subject
Leading tours in a historic house filled with objects and furnishings has its benefits and drawbacks. While it gives us an opportunity to immerse visitors [...]