A Call for Volunteers to Research and Write Biographical Sketches of Woman Suffrage Activists: Round Two
Suffrage envoys from San Francisco greeted in New Jersey on their way to present a petition to Congress, 1915. Calling [...]
Living in the Past: the Heritage House Program at Strawbery Banke Museum
The front entrance of the Penhallow House on Washington St., Portsmouth, NH. In a transitional world, museums must stay relevant [...]
Sharing History with a Smartphone App
Visitors exploring the West Virginia Women’s Heritage Trail on Clio at Arts Monongahela in Morgantown, West Virginia. As history professionals, [...]
Networking for Emerging History Professionals
Talking to other history professionals at the 2015 AASLH Annual Meeting Although museum/history professionals may not face the [...]
5 Citizen History Projects You Should Know About (Part 1)
With the ubiquity of the internet, crowdsourcing help, resources, and artifacts has been an effective way for libraries, museums, institutes, [...]
Same Skills, New Tech: Social Media Lessons from a 1967 AASLH Technical Leaflet
Image by Queens of Vintage At AASLH, we don't like to reinvent the wheel. We are constantly looking [...]
Seven Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in December and January
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in the last two months! The Standards and Excellence Program for History [...]
WWI Memorial Design Finalists on Exhibit in DC til Dec 22
WASHINGTON, DC: The U.S. World War I Centennial Commission will publicly exhibit the five finalist design concepts for the national World War I Memorial in [...]
Overland Park: A Place of Peace, Comfort, and Plenty
Overland Park: A Place of Peace, Comfort, and Plenty is the first large-scale exhibit project in the OPHS’s twenty-year history and was shown in the [...]
Harrison County, Indiana Driving Tour
In 2014, the Historical Society of Harrison County completed an ambitious project to construct a driving tour of the county’s historic sites. 232 sites are [...]
Motoring Through Edgewater
Motoring Through Edgewater explores how the automobile transformed the Edgewater community and the nation between 1900-1930 through photos, maps, documents, artifacts, and original historical research. [...]
Community Based Learning Program
Staff members at the State Historical Museum of Iowa collaborated with two exceptional Des Moines Public Schools teachers, Josalynn Agnew (Monroe Elementary School) and Michele [...]
Riding Through History
Riding Through History is a 3,000 square foot exhibit on the history of recreational bicycling in Iowa. The exhibit showcases how bicycling became a popular [...]