Managing Volunteers: Lessons Learned Through Experience
A volunteer talking to visitors at the Cincinnati Museum Center. We all know most non-profits run on volunteers. Working at [...]
Save the NEH! Call Your Members of Congress on March 14 for Humanities Advocacy Day
March 14 is Humanities Advocacy Day! A record-breaking number of humanities advocates are in Washington D.C. today, March 13th, meeting with hundreds [...]
The Path to Cultural Sensitivity? Inclusion and Co-Curation
Exhibition planning meeting in Los Angeles, for Go For Broke National Education Center. Interpretation has come a long way. In [...]
Stop the Drive-Bys: A Teacher Makes the Case for Local Historical Markers
As is no doubt the case at your institution, we could not be nearly as effective in our mission to [...]
2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting Open for Registration
The 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting is now open for registration. This year’s Annual Meeting will be held from September 14-17 [...]
New Nixon Library and Museum to Open Oct. 14
YORBA LINDA, Calif., June 2, 2016—A completely new interactive presidential museum is opening at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library on [...]
Improving History Work: Collaboration Continues to Matter
Before there was an American Association for State and Local History, many historians – trained and avocational–put a lot of [...]
FLASH SALE: $8 Online Conference Sessions
Build Your Own AASLH Conference. Mix-and-match recorded AASLH Online Conference Sessions and customize the conference that you or your staff needs today! For one Flat Fee [...]
Opportunity Knocks – The HHI 2014 National Collections Care Survey is Here!
Help preserve our shared heritage, increase funding for conservation, and strengthen collections care by completing the Heritage Health Information 2014 National Collections Care Survey. The [...]
How Can I Use Other Standards to Supplement My Use of Nomenclature?
In general, museums should choose a single classification system, such as Nomenclature, as the authoritative classification structure that they will use for classifying and naming [...]
A Small Museums Scholarship Recipient’s Story
Hello everyone! I was so excited to receive a Small Museums Committee scholarship to attend my first AASLH conference! After I found out I had won, [...]
What is Your Specialty?
Here in the world of state and local history, we are often pushed beyond the boundaries of our own training and experience. Museum educators suddenly [...]
The Relevance of History: A High-Schooler’s Perspective
Recently a high school student, Patrick Calvert, asked to meet with a colleague and me to find out how to move forward with a career [...]