Welcome to Speaker Week: Inspiration from Past AASLH Annual Meeting Speakers
This is the first post in a week-long series spotlighting Kansas City and Annual Meeting topics leading up to the announcement of [...]
Friday Favorites: Three Things I’m Listening To
I have a very long commute to the AASLH office each morning and home each afternoon. This provides ample time for me [...]
Book Review: A Practical Guide to Museum Ethics
This review originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of History News. A Practical Guide to Museum Ethics By Sally Yerkovich (Lanham, [...]
Maryland Governor Restores Funding to Maryland’s Historic Preservation Grant Programs
Historic Maryland State Capitol in Annapolis Maryland Governor Larry Hogan included in his fiscal year 2018 budget over [...]
StEPs Spotlight: The Pioneer Museum is Learning How to Better Serve their Audience
Exciting changes are happening at the 800+ organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History [...]
We Can Do It! WWII
While many Americans are familiar with World War II events such as Pearl Harbor or D-Day, most are less familiar with [...]
Challenges and Choices in Pennsylvania's Forests
“Challenges and Choices in Pennsylvania’s Forests” explores six time periods, from 800 BCE through the present, with the goal of illustrating the [...]
La Belle: The Ship That Changed History
La Belle: The Ship That Changed History is a 6,000 square foot special exhibition that examines the more than three hundred years of history of [...]
Tennessee War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission
While the War of 1812 has national significance, the event was exceptionally important to Tennessee. The conflict made Andrew Jackson a household name, gave rise [...]
Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation
Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation interpreted an often neglected aspect of Tennessee’s past: antebellum plantation slavery. Located in Robertson County, Wessyngton Plantation was comprised [...]
Andrew Jackson: Born for a Storm
Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage unveiled its newest exhibition, Andrew Jackson: Born for a Storm on January 8, 2015. This exhibition, timed to celebrate the bicentennial of [...]
Woodrow Wilson Family Home: A Museum of Reconstruction in Columbia & Richland County
In 2005, Historic Columbia closed the Woodrow Wilson Family Home historic site due to extensive structural issues. $3.1 million in funding from grants, private donations [...]
The Lost Museum
Public Humanities graduate students at Brown University re-imagined and resurrected the Jenks Museum, a natural history collection that existed on the university’s campus from 1871 [...]