I Said Bang! A History of the Dirt Bowl, the Crown Jewel of the Most Basketball-Obsessed City in America
This project is the recipient of a 2017 History in Progress Award. Inaugural Dirt Bowl, 1969 In 1969, after the [...]
StEPs Spotlight: The Lillian E. Jones Museum
Exciting changes are happening at the nearly 1,000 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations). [...]
Book Review: The Past and Future City
This review originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of History News. The Past and Future City: How Historic Preservation is Reviving [...]
Civil Rights Sites Gain National Funding, Status
The Medgar Evers House The week leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s national holiday brought good [...]
Storify of the Jan 2017 #AASLHchat: Building Better Boards
On January 24, AASLH held our fourth #AASLHchat on Twitter. These monthly discussions are shaping up to be a great way [...]
Warnersville: Our Home, Our Neighborhood, Our Stories
This collaborative exhibit focused on Warnersville, the first planned African American community in Greensboro, NC. The project had three primary [...]
Starring North Carolina!
Starring North Carolina!, an 8,400-square-foot exhibit featuring more than 600 artifacts, ran at the North Carolina Museum of History from November [...]
Montana Women’s History Matters
On November 3, 1914, Montana joined nine other western states in extending voting rights to non-Native women. One hundred years later, the Montana Historical Society [...]
Doing Our Part: Clay County in WWII
Using the Minnesota Historical Society traveling exhibit Homefront as a starting point, HCSCC staff researched, designed, and installed an innovative exhibit for an inter-generational audience [...]
Chicken Hill: A Community Lost to Time
The suburban development of the Three Village area in the 1960s converted the residential area known as Chicken Hill into a nondescript collection of small [...]
Caring for Body, Mind, and Spirit: The Story of St. Joseph’s Nurses
Caring for Body, Mind, and Spirit: The Story of St. Joseph’s Nurses opened November 12, 2014, at the Piper Memorial Medical Museum at St. Joseph [...]
National September 11 Memorial Museum
Opened in May 2014, the National September 11 Memorial Museum is the global focal point for preserving the history of the 9/11 attacks and exploring their [...]
North Dakota: People Living on the Land
This project developed an innovative online curriculum for eighth graders in North Dakota and presents a comprehensive and accessible look into the state’s past. Crafted [...]