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, [...]
Six Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in January
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in the last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program [...]
Mistakes Were Made
Note from blog editors: Sean Kelley and a panel presented a session at the 2016 AASLH Annual Meeting about the [...]
Meet the Staff–Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens/Akron Public Schools Place-Based Education Curricula
From October 2014 to November 2015, 736 fifth grade students participated in “Meet the Staff,” an experiential learning curriculum created [...]
Carillon Brewing Company
Carillon Brewing Company (CBC) is the first licensed production brewery in a museum. Dayton History’s newest project, this 10,000 square [...]
The Old North State at War: The North Carolina Civil War Atlas
The Old North State at War: The North Carolina Civil War Atlas is a comprehensive study of the impact of [...]
US WWI Centennial Commission Enters Formal Partnership with France’s Mission Du Centenaire 14-18
Washington, DC On Thursday, 19 November in a ceremony at its Washington offices, the U.S. World War One Centennial Commission signed a partnership of mutual [...]
Meet a Member: The Texas Archive of the Moving Image
We are excited to launch a new biweekly blog series called “Meet a Member.” AASLH has 5,500 fascinating members working hard for the field of [...]
Coins, Coins Everywhere!
For some reason, and I still can't figure out why I did this, I made the assumption that working with a military-centric collection would mean [...]
Community Museum Leads Community Recovery
Tuckerton Seaport and Baymen’s Museum, an IMLS National Medal of Honor 2015 Finalist for community service, holds as one of its primary goals to provide [...]
Arthur and Edith Lee House Project
The Arthur and Edith Lee House Project documents and interprets the history behind a series of menacing protests that enveloped 4600 Columbus Avenue in South [...]
Why Treaties Matter: Self-Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations
The Why Treaties Matter project represents a real and important “absent narrative” about the genesis of current culture. The goal of this project is to [...]