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A Guide to Women’s History at the 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting
Mark your schedules! In one month, the 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting will begin. Here is a guide to Women’s History sessions and events: [...]
House or Home? Rethinking the House Museum Paradigm
Wheelwright House, Strawbery Banke Museum At their best, historic sites and house museums provide meaningful and personal touchstones to the [...]
Cemetery Preservation & Interpretation: A Resource Collection
Here is a collection of all AASLH resources on preserving and interpreting historic cemeteries. For more resources on a wide range of subjects, [...]
Pop-Up Sessions: Here to Serve Your Pressing Needs
It happens every year. Urgent issues—or burgeoning topics—surface at our annual meeting or during the lag time after proposals are [...]
Message from the Council Chair: On AASLH 2015
The 2015 annual meeting theme, “The Power of Possibility,” was crafted by program chair Kyle McKoy of the Indiana Historical [...]
The Pleasant Hill Shakers and the Power of Possibility
The legacy of the Pleasant Hill Shaker community has often been assessed exclusively through their material culture. However, each physical [...]
AASLH Members Receive More Than $1 Million in Grants from NEH and IMLS
This summer, more than thirty AASLH member institutions were awarded prestigious grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) [...]
“… or a building full of old stuff.”
The blog below is the first of several postings by Gene Bering. I asked him to share his experiences working in a small rural museum. Small [...]
Online History Resources: A World of Ideas!
As someone who has been a museum professional for the better part of 15 years, I periodically wonder how we ever made a move before [...]
Too Many Nonprofit Organizations?
All nonprofits - whether they are food banks, hospitals, day care facilities, drug rehabilitation centers, museums, or historical societies - share the same core mission: [...]
Exhibitions of Student Art
I bet all of us can remember having some art work or writing piece we did as a child placed on display in a public [...]
Welcome to the Arrrrducation Blog!
Welcome to AASLH’s Educators and Interpreters Affinity Group blog. The Arrrrducation Blog is place to feed your inner pirate where you can “steal” ideas and [...]
Accessibility and the Arts
At the invitation of the Oklahoma Arts Council and the Mid-America Arts Alliance, I recently attended a workshop, "Accessibility in the Arts," held at the National Archives [...]