Baby Boom II: Motherhood and Museums One Year Later
To my astonishment, Baby Boom: Motherhood and Museums has consistently been one of the most popular AASLH blog posts since it was [...]
Networking for Emerging History Professionals
Talking to other history professionals at the 2015 AASLH Annual Meeting Although museum/history professionals may not face the same problems [...]
5 Citizen History Projects You Should Know About (Part 1)
With the ubiquity of the internet, crowdsourcing help, resources, and artifacts has been an effective way for libraries, museums, institutes, and independent [...]
3 Reasons to Survey Visitors this Summer Using Visitors Count
What makes a museum successful at attracting and serving visitors? After ten years of analyzing results from the many different [...]
11 AASLH Members Earned StEPs Certificates in April
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 [...]
Meet a Member: Kristin Gallas
Meet a Member is a regular blog series spotlighting our members. AASLH has 5,500 fascinating members working hard for the field [...]
“What’d I Miss?” Historians, Hamilton, and Fanfic
If you’re like me, your personal Facebook wall is pretty much exclusively re-posts of Hamilton-related news, videos (Did you see [...]
Ice Bucket Envy
By now, everyone on the planet has seen the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Celebrities, politicians, our Facebook friends, and even Muppets are having buckets of [...]
Pictures Say It All
Recently I saw a Facebook post from a museum boasting about how exciting a day they were having due to a large group of school [...]
Just What Does General Mills and Wells Fargo Keep Anyway?
You can find out on the Corporate History Tour at the 2014 AASLH Annual Meeting. Corporate History Tour Wednesday, September 17 1–5 pm Cost: $45 [...]
Battledecks: A Challenge is Issued!
Do you find Power Points boring? Did the presenter put green text on an orange background? Too many photo dissolves? Are you looking for something wildly [...]
Time Is Running Out
The clock is ticking. Do you have new terms or changes that you’d like to see in the next edition of Nomenclature, but you just [...]
Did You Have a Great Intern This Summer?
I’ll cut right to the chase. AASLH is reaching out to the members of the AASLH Small Museums Affinity Community because we know how much small museums rely [...]