StEPs Spotlight: The New London Public Museum is Planning for the Future
Exciting changes are happening at the 800+ organizations taking part in AASLH's StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations). Our "StEPs Spotlight" [...]
#AASLH2017 Session Proposals Due Dec 9
The deadline to submit a proposal for the 2017 AASLH Annual Meeting is December 9. For specific instructions, see the Call for Proposals. [...]
How Exhibitions Develop Collections
It all began with a small ski slope on Long Island. Yes, there was some skiing on Long Island, New York and [...]
Riding Through History
Riding Through History is a 3,000 square foot exhibit on the history of recreational bicycling in Iowa. The exhibit showcases [...]
Abercorn Archaeology: African American History in the Shadow of the Oak
Proposed plans to widen a state road and construct new interchanges near Savannah in Chatham County, Georgia led to the [...]
Classifying and Naming Digital Objects with Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature 4.0 can be used to catalog digital objects. It allows museums to record information about the format (e.g., “Document, Digital”) [...]
Middle Tennessee Museums See Success with StEPs
AASLH received a grant from the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee in the fall of 2011 to create a StEPs [...]
Hindu Temples in the United States
Hanuman Mandir, Alpharetta, Georgia Hindu temples have marked sacred spaces for millennia in India. However, recent research documents over 200 of these structures [...]
New-York Historical Society to Present a Diverse Range of Exhibitions Spring 2014
AASLH Member Since 2002 Exhibitions will highlight iconic NYC photos by Bill Cunningham, Forgotten Sports History, Original Audubon Watercolors, and Civil War-Era Quilts NEW YORK, [...]
Marketing Historical Thinking Skills to our Colleagues
Recently I attended the American Alliance of Museums conference in charming Baltimore, Maryland. At one of the un-conference sessions and over the twitter feed (#aam2013) [...]
Adaptive Reuse of Religious Buildings
As congregations around the country shrink, disband, or move into more modern facilities, hundreds of church buildings are left vacant. These structures, many of which [...]
A Plague of Beetles on Your Historic House!
Well, the carpet-bagging, snowbirds arrived to the South more than a month early this year. No, I’m not talking about the golf-loving Midwesterners Ohioans coming [...]
Conservation Assessment Program 2014 Application
By Heritage Preservation AASLH Member since 1990 Are you looking for ways to prioritize and improve collections care at your small to mid-sized museum? If [...]