Women Who Mentor: Amy Thibodeau, Writer, Editor, and Content Strategist
Women engineers at Bletchley Park working on Colossus, the codebreaking computer. Collection of the National Archives (United Kingdom). One of [...]
AASLH Flash Sale: 50% Off All Recorded Webinars and PDFs of Technical Leaflets, Technical Leaflet Bundles
Today through next Tuesday (April 18) get 50% off the 77 recorded webinars, 30 Technical Leaflet PDFs, and 23 Technical Leaflet Bundle [...]
Ghost Tours: Marketing Hype or Spiritual Quest?
The 2016 Ghostbusters reboot begins with an actual ghost causing problems after a docent finishes a tour at a "haunted" historic [...]
#AASLHMMA2016 Call for Current Issues Forum Topics
Have a hot topic that deserves further discussion by you and your history colleagues? Current Issues Forums, AASLH’s newest Annual [...]
Right-ing American History: Thoughts on AASLH and Reinterpreting History
Ever since I was young, I recall only visiting museums when I went on school field trips. I remember enjoying [...]
How Should Museums Contribute to Community Recovery After Disasters?
Greetings from the AASLH’s archives! Today I want to pose a few questions inspired by one intriguing archival finding. These [...]
StEPs in the Classroom: A Collaboration Between the Watts Museum and the WVU Public History Program
This spring, a class of public history graduate students at West Virginia University had the opportunity to participate in AASLH’s [...]
Session Proposal: Received
For weeks you worked via email and phone conversations to develop the best conference session proposal you could. You successfully got it submitted just before [...]
AASLH Program Committee – A Newbie’s Perspective
On January 17, I started my day with a group of people—most of whom I have never met—to decide which proposals out of 126 would [...]
Together We Can Listen – Incorporating Evaluation Pt. 2
Building the capacity for evaluation at a historic house museum can be a daunting task but has long-term, positive impact on programming and visitation. As [...]
Is it a Drum? Or a Drum? Homonyms in Nomenclature 3.0
Homonyms are words that share the same spelling but have different meanings. For example, a "drum" can be a percussive musical instrument, or a container [...]
Cultural Continuity: Armenia’s Ethnic Church’s Presence in U.S. Communities
Several years ago I spent significant time in the Republic of Armenia (2009-2011) studying the language and learning about and from the Armenian people. During [...]
“Borrowing” Great Ideas!
Don't you love when you see an idea on social media and know it will work for your site? The Peabody Essex Museum participates in [...]