Visitors and Originality in Historic House Museums: A Look at the Impact of Furnishing Plans
Library: Longfellow’s House – Washington Headquarters National Historic Site; By Daderot (Own work) [CC0] “Is everything original?” “Is this what [...]
AASLH Welcomes First 30 Academic Program Members
In April 2016, AASLH launched a brand new membership type for Academic Programs. Designed specifically to meet the needs of faculty and [...]
Reconsideration of Memorials and Monuments
This article will be published in the upcoming Fall 2016 issue of History News, the official magazine of AASLH. To receive this issue [...]
Overland Park: A Place of Peace, Comfort, and Plenty
Overland Park: A Place of Peace, Comfort, and Plenty is the first large-scale exhibit project in the OPHS’s twenty-year history [...]
Harrison County, Indiana Driving Tour
In 2014, the Historical Society of Harrison County completed an ambitious project to construct a driving tour of the county’s [...]
Motoring Through Edgewater
Motoring Through Edgewater explores how the automobile transformed the Edgewater community and the nation between 1900-1930 through photos, maps, documents, [...]
Community Based Learning Program
Staff members at the State Historical Museum of Iowa collaborated with two exceptional Des Moines Public Schools teachers, Josalynn Agnew [...]
Using Nomenclature – Adding Specialist Terms
Photo courtesy Kili / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain Nomenclature covers a wide range of terminology, but it does not include all [...]
Impact of One Time Field Trips on Student Learning
The Crystal Bridges Art Museum and the University of Arkansas recently worked together to evaluate the impact of one time field trips on students. You [...]
Bring Out Your Dead
With the coming of the New Year I have been reflecting a lot on…death...that’s right – death. In historic houses we will relate WHEN and [...]
STEM, You Say?
“Bah,” you are thinking. “Do I really need to integrate science and MATH into our education offerings? This is not what I signed up for….” [...]
Adding Branches to Our Family Tree
As the corporate history museum for American Airlines, the CR Smith Museum holds a significant collection of artifacts and archives that help us interpret the [...]
Reflecting on the AASLH Conference Inspiration for Small Historic Sites
Thanks to a Small Museums scholarship, I attended the AASLH annual conference in Birmingham, Alabama. While there, I learned new and valuable ideas about operating [...]