Moving Luzerne County Historical Society Forward
By Aimee E. Newell, Ph.D., Executive Director, Luzerne County Historical Society with introduction by Cherie Cook, Senior Program Manager, AASLH Assessment programs [...]
AASLH Announces 2019 Small Museums Scholarship Winners
Rocky statue outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Now in their thirteenth year, the Small Museums Affinity Community’s annual scholarships help [...]
Ideas for Funding Your Organization’s Visitor Research
By Cherie Cook, Senior Program Manager, AASLH Visitor satisfaction is a “big deal,” writes Colleen Dilenschneider in her blog post "The Three [...]
StEPs Spotlight: Lorain Historical Society
Exciting changes are happening at the nearly 1,000 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for [...]
We Are All the Spinning Wheel
Throughout the course of my visits to museums, historic houses, and historic sites around New England, I found one specific [...]
Out with the Old, In with the Slightly More Updated and Stimulating Exhibit Experience
The Hezekiah Alexander House on the Charlotte Museum of History's property dates to 1774. By Sara Blanchett Through [...]
5 Sites to Celebrate National Poetry Month
National Poetry Month, inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, has become a worldwide celebration of the beauty [...]
Missouri History Museum Breaks Attendance Records Thanks to New Approach
Crowds wait in line to see Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis at the Missouri History Museum during the last week of 2016. [...]
StEPs Spotlight: Center for the History of Family Medicine
Exciting changes are happening at the 800+ organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Exciting changes are happening at the 800+ organizations taking part in [...]
Best of 2016: Our Top 10 Posts This Year
As 2016 comes to a close, we’re looking back at all the great articles posted on the AASLH blogs this year. Here are our top [...]
Digital History Company Plans to Create Interactive Digital Version of the Library from American Philosophy: A Love Story
One of the year’s best books is a beautifully written story about books – specifically, a lost collection of priceless tomes with inscriptions and margin [...]
Hear, Here: Voices of Downtown La Crosse
Hear, Here: Voices of Downtown La Crosse is a location-based mobile phone documentary project about downtown La Crosse that uses street-level signs to share local stories [...]
A Walk in 1875 St. Louis
It all started with a map. Pictorial St. Louis, a perspective map that showed every street, building, park, and even outhouse in the city, was [...]