Cultural Competency: A Powerful Tool for Change
At the 2016 AASLH Annual Meeting, the Educators and Interpreters Committee hosted a session on cultural competency featuring staff from the Arab [...]
Welcome to Our House: How Visitor Experience Planning at Pittock Mansion Lead to Record Attendance
Visitors exploring Pittock Mansion’s 16,000 square feet. As many historic house museums across the country experience declining visitation, Portland’s Pittock [...]
Four Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in October
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 designed specifically [...]
Arthur and Edith Lee House Project
The Arthur and Edith Lee House Project documents and interprets the history behind a series of menacing protests that enveloped [...]
Why Treaties Matter: Self-Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations
The Why Treaties Matter project represents a real and important “absent narrative” about the genesis of current culture. The goal [...]
Montana Women’s History Matters
On November 3, 1914, Montana joined nine other western states in extending voting rights to non-Native women. One hundred years [...]
Doing Our Part: Clay County in WWII
Using the Minnesota Historical Society traveling exhibit Homefront as a starting point, HCSCC staff researched, designed, and installed an innovative [...]
Free Collections Management Webinar Tomorrow
The Small Museums Committee of AASLH is pleased to be partnering with the Connecting to Collections Online Community to present a collections management webinar! Essential [...]
West Baton Rouge Museum Director Honored by Girl Scouts of America
BATON ROUGE — Girl Scouts Louisiana East is holding its 2013 Women of Distinction awards dinner and champagne reception, honoring nine community leaders, on Friday, [...]
AASLH – More than a Conference
Mark Sundlov and Jason Crabill sharing a toast from AASLH Annual Meeting 2013. "You came up in conversation tonight and 'the crew' is [...]
More Texas Tales – A Tale from Canyon, Texas: The Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
One of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum’s most popular artifacts isn't inside at all. The T Anchor Ranch Headquarters, the oldest surviving Anglo structure in the [...]
By and For Small Museums
In November 2008, a Request for Proposal, was sent out to members of the museum community, asking for help in a ground-breaking new project: The [...]
Using Jazz Improvisation As A Model For Developing Exhibits
Jazz improvisation begins with a melodic phrase, then it invites a response and builds on a theme. Sometimes pleasing, sometimes cacophonous, the result is rooted in the magic of call and response. Think of it as history in action.