You Start By Meeting Your Audience
NPS photo. By Mike Hudson, Director, Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind, Louisville, KY When I started working [...]
New StEPs Group Forms in Missouri
By Elizabeth Pickard, Director, Education and Interpretation, Missouri Historical Society Last month, the Missouri Historical Society launched its new StEPs working group as [...]
Book Review: Moving Image and Sound Collections for Archivists
This review originally appeared in the Autumn 2018 issue of History News. Moving Image and Sound Collections for Archivists By Anthony Cocciolo [...]
Taking History into Our Own Hand(icraft)s: Interpreting a Lost Douglass Site in Rochester
By Hinda Mandell, Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology Sometimes a bit of thread and yarn can offer a [...]
Past, Present, and Future on Display at #AASLH17
Briscoe Center for American History By Zachary Stocks Like many attendees of the AASLH Annual Meeting in Austin [...]
Calling All Writers: AASLH Wants Your Ideas #AASLHWRITES
The Editorial Board for AASLH’s book series with Rowman & Littlefield Press is actively seeking new book proposals. If you’re a good writer [...]
2017 StEPs Graduate: Fort Nisqually Living History Museum
Exciting changes are happening at the 900 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History [...]
Bringing Women’s History into the Classroom: The 2016 George Washington Teacher Institute
Since 1999, the George Washington Teacher Institute at Mount Vernon provides teachers across the country with historical thinking skills and in-depth content about George Washington [...]
War and Peace: Following the Footsteps of the Huron-Wyandot
On Wednesday, September 14 from 8:30am-5 pm, attendees of the AASLH/MMA 2016 Annual Meeting in Detroit will have the chance to attend a unique guided tour [...]
100 Cities/100 Memorials Will Help Restore & Preserve Local WWI Memorials Across US
The U.S. World War I Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library have announced a new program to help people across the country [...]
Seven Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in July
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program designed specifically for small to [...]
PokéWHAT?! National Trust for Historic Preservation Staff Provide a Pokémon Go Primer
As the Pokémon Go craze was taking hold of communities and blowing up in the press last week, Small Museum Committee member, Kristen Laise of [...]
Pittock Mansion Historic House Museum Sees Record-Breaking Attendance of 100,000 + Annual Visitors
“At a time when many historic house museums across the country are experiencing declining visitation, Portland, Oregon's Pittock Mansion has set a new record for [...]