Six Hot Spot Board Issues and Three Cooling Tactics
Expectations are a two-way street (or maybe something more akin to a clover-leaf interstate exchange?). During our session “Who’s Shoulding on Your [...]
Call for Papers: Craft as Political Activism in a Nation Divided
Crochet faces adhered outside the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House in Rochester, New York, during Women's History Month in [...]
Small Archives and Partnerships at #AASLH17
In September, thanks to the Small Museums Scholarship, I was able to attend my first AASLH Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas. Like [...]
Operation Pedro Pan: The Cuban Children's Exodus
Operation Pedro Pan, as executed between December 26, 1960 and October 23, 1962, is an important part of Miami’s history. [...]
Remembering Lincoln Digital Collection
The Remembering Lincoln Digital Collection is an IMLS-funded project of Ford’s Theatre Society (FTS) that serves to connect four audiences—teachers, [...]
Strong-Howard House Reinterpretation Project
To help visitors better connect with the story of the Strong-Howard house and its inhabitants, the Windsor Historical Society undertook [...]
Join StEPs in January and Get a Free Webinar Registration
Sign up for AASLH's StEPs program and begin 2017 with a road map and renewed enthusiasm! StEPs (Standards and Excellence Program [...]
Chime In: Museum Education in History Museums
The Educators and Interpreters Committee occasionally receives questions from the field at large that we feel should go out to a bigger pool of practitioners to answer. As a result, we've [...]
Trial by Fire: The New Future of History Nonprofits
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences' Humanities Indicators (HI) project just released a detailed report on Not-for-Profit History Organizations and Their Revenues from 1989-2012. [...]
It’s a Wrap! Free Resources and More from #AASLH2015
The annual meeting is not an isolated event; it represents the culmination of innovative ideas that you introduce to the field throughout the year. So [...]
Corporate History at the 2015 Annual Meeting
This year’s conference was a lot of fun, and we had a very strong turnout at the corporate history tour, luncheon, and session. Kentucky is [...]
The Small Museum Tool Box
They say you have to be able to wear multiple hats to work in small museum. But what about those times when you need to [...]
I Remember When – Part 9
Permutations of Portability I recall my first “portable” computer – a Kaypro with two 5.25” floppy drives and a 20Mb (wow!) hard drive. It weighed [...]