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What You Can Learn from 7 Theme Fusion Success Stories
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Placing Family History in Context: A Personal Example & Ideas for Museums
There’s no missing Americans’ passionate interest in genealogy today. Aging baby boomers have greater free time for research and deepened appreciation for [...]
Storify from #AASLHchat on Incorporating Pop Culture into Tours and Programming
Last week, AASLH hosted our very first #AASLHchat on Twitter. Our guest hosts, the Educators and Interpreters Affinity Community, created a great [...]
Notes to Self or When to Stay Up Late at Conferences
AASLH conference time is almost here! Last year was such a great conference, and I even wrote a few notes to myself [...]
AASLH 2015 Attendees Suggest Session Topics for 2016
We sent all attendees of the 2015 Annual Meeting a survey to find out what we did right and what [...]
Power of Possibility: A Small Museums Scholarship Experience
By Shelly Drummond, Plant City Photo Archives and History Center, Plant City, FL As a grateful recipient of a Small [...]
The Words (and numbers) Still Matter
The Words (and numbers) Still Matter In the context of a conference on computerization of museum catalog records, more than [...]
2016 Call for Proposals
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) will present its 2016 annual meeting in Detroit, MI, from September [...]
To Tweet or Not To Tweet
With many social media sites available it is likely that if you are not already tweeting, facebooking or blogging you will be in the near [...]
Teach the Past and Eat it Too
Colonial Williamsburg interpreters roast a pig. Virginia Gazette photo. Food is one of the defining issues of our times. It's also one of [...]
A Parent By Any Other Name….Part 1
Museums have all sorts of parent organizations. State, county, and municipal groups are probably the most common, but there are many academic museums, too. When [...]
Practical Tips on Effective Networking – From the Small Museums Luncheon
Kent Whitworth, CEO of the Kentucky Historical Society, not only gave attendees at the Small Museum Luncheon great networking advice; he brought us bourbon balls.
All Fun and Games
As educators, we're always looking for ways to make museum content "stickier" and more meaningful. Sometimes we're overlooking a powerful and universal human tool: games. [...]
More Recipes for Success
As AASLH gathered in Salt Lake City earlier this month for the Annual Meeting, the Small Museum Committee was pleased to host a luncheon for [...]