Three Ways History Organizations Can Collect and Interpret Memorials
Dear Boston: Messages from the Marathon Memorial When faced with tragedies, communities may find healing in creating memorials. Museums and [...]
Three Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in June
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 [...]
Uniting Town and Gown: Municipal Museum Partners with Local Colleges
A portion of the Made for the Tourist Trade exhibition at the Greeley History Museum, open from January 18 – December [...]
This Annual Meeting is the BEST for Historic House Museums
This Annual Meeting is the BEST for Historic House Museums! Admittedly, I may be a little biased because I am [...]
Six Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in August
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program [...]
28 AASLH Members Receive Over $9 Million in NEH Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $79 million in grants for 290 humanities projects [...]
Ten Fundraising To-do’s for Small Museums & Nonprofits
By Jamie Simek Does fundraising leave you at a loss? Have you read fundraising guides and wondered how to translate [...]
When is a Coin, Not Really a Coin?
When is a coin not really a coin? That's not a trick question by any means. For a military college, there is a very distinct [...]
MY Historic House
I don't know anything about this house. Okay, that’s not entirely true. I know that I lived here for just under three months in 1999 [...]
AASLH Offering Two Workshops on Public Programming
Register Early and Save! Hurry, Space is Limited! Focusing On Visitors: Public Programming And Exhibits At History Institutions This workshop provides a broad overview of [...]
How Clean are Your Interactives?
As a museum educator, I was horrified when I saw the media headlines alleging that there was a measles scare at the Please Touch Museum [...]
Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium Project
For the past decade, the Pikes Peak Library District (PPLD) has hosted a day-long symposium for the public. Every year a different historical topic is [...]
Upstairs, Downstairs Tour
The Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion is Philadelphia's only authentically restored Victorian house museum. Located in the historic Germantown section of the city, the Mansion was built [...]