Six Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in August
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 [...]
28 AASLH Members Receive Over $9 Million in NEH Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $79 million in grants for 290 humanities projects and programs [...]
Ten Fundraising To-do’s for Small Museums & Nonprofits
By Jamie Simek Does fundraising leave you at a loss? Have you read fundraising guides and wondered how to translate them into [...]
A Night at the Museum: Public-Private Collaboration Done Right
I was thrilled to attend the opening of American Enterprise, the new business exhibit that opened at the Smithsonian’s National [...]
National History Day: Leadership and Legacy in History
In June, I had the opportunity to work with National History Day staff at the National Contest in College Park, [...]
AASLH 2015 Attendees Suggest Session Topics for 2016
We sent all attendees of the 2015 Annual Meeting a survey to find out what we did right and what [...]
Power of Possibility: A Small Museums Scholarship Experience
By Shelly Drummond, Plant City Photo Archives and History Center, Plant City, FL As a grateful recipient of a Small [...]
Keeping It “Small”
Lauren Silberman I used to think that history museums with a million dollar budget were small. Please keep in mind that I had [...]
Staying Plugged In…
It’s Electric! Connection…the very concept, elusive as it is, is the thread by which the museum field binds communities together. This is especially true for [...]
Interactives for Everyone!
Contributed by Rebecca Martin who has worked at the Litchfield Historical Society and the National Archives I know that hands-on, multi-sensory experiences really do make a [...]
To Do or Not to Do: Professional Development
Note: I completely support professional development for museum staff. The sole intent of this commentary is to start a conversation. Throughout my career, I fortunately [...]
Making Point of View Central to Interpretation
Photo courtesy of Ford’s Theatre. Ford’s Theatre is a National Historic Site that also operates as a working theatre, producing four main stage [...]
Network of Museums – What is our role?
Whether we exchange art, artifacts or expertise, I’ve always believed neighboring cultural institutions should help each other. Collegiality is a given in our field. With [...]