Digital History Company Plans to Create Interactive Digital Version of the Library from American Philosophy: A Love Story
One of the year’s best books is a beautifully written story about books – specifically, a lost collection of priceless tomes with [...]
Hear, Here: Voices of Downtown La Crosse
Hear, Here: Voices of Downtown La Crosse is a location-based mobile phone documentary project about downtown La Crosse that uses street-level signs to [...]
A Walk in 1875 St. Louis
It all started with a map. Pictorial St. Louis, a perspective map that showed every street, building, park, and even outhouse in [...]
Being the Credible Source: What’s in a Citation?
During the Keynote Address at the AASLH Annual Meeting in Lousiville, Professor Sam Wineburg reminded us of the daunting task [...]
President Lincoln’s Cottage Gains 501(c)(3) Status, Will Continue Working Closely with NTHP
Since opening its doors to the public for the first time in 2008, President Lincoln’s Cottage (AASLH member since 2011) [...]
Historical Society of Washington, DC and HistoryIT Release New Digital Archive Portal for DC History
Earlier this month, the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. and history technology and consulting firm HistoryIT (AASLH members since 1995 and 2013, respectively) [...]
Meet a Member: Hope Shannon
Meet a Member is a biweekly blog series spotlighting our members. AASLH has 5,500 fascinating members working hard for the field [...]
Lessons from a Museum Merger
I could write multiple posts about why it became necessary for Portland Harbor Museum to merge with another museum. In this post, however, I want [...]
Scrapbooks, Albums, and other Mixed Content Memorabilia
From the Smoky Hill Museum Collections, Salina, Kansas I recently spotted a book at my local library, The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by [...]
What a Volunteer Needs
I never really thought about becoming a volunteer, it just did not seem like something that I would ever have time for. The few times [...]
Turn a Snowball Fight into Museum Members
I came across this posting on AASLH Award Winner Gore Place’s Facebook wall the other day and thought, what a perfect way to engage people [...]
Small Museums Come Together
Working and volunteering for a small museum can be tough. You wear many hats. There are always five different projects (or disasters) demanding your attention. [...]
Making the most out of work in progress
Making The Most Out Of Work In Progress When you work at a historic house museum, there is almost always a [...]