History in Motion: What We Can Learn from U-Haul’s Love for Local History
What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the word summer? Vacation? BBQs? The beach? How about moving? Every summer [...]
Free Events at the AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting
Are you coming to Detroit and looking for some cheap networking opportunities? AASLH/MMA has several events planned that you want to be [...]
Schedule Changes for AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting
Please note the following changes in the upcoming AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting schedule. Sessions Cancelled The Wednesday workshops, Easy to Read: A Guide [...]
The Words (and numbers) Still Matter
The Words (and numbers) Still Matter In the context of a conference on computerization of museum catalog records, more than [...]
2016 Call for Proposals
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) will present its 2016 annual meeting in Detroit, MI, from September [...]
A Diversity Fellowship Winner’s Perspective of AASLH 2015
2015 was my first time attending the annual AASLH conference and I am unbelievably appreciative to AASLH for awarding me [...]
Inspiration Found at the 2015 Annual Meeting
As a young professional and the brand new executive director of a small town history and art museum, I was [...]
The Emotional Foundation of a Membership
At the top of your spinal column, there is a walnut-sized region of the brain called the amygdala, which is commonly called the “old brain” [...]
Context for History Is Not Comfortable
Prior to agreeing to reprint my "History Is Not Comfortable" article here on SMOC, I asked if I could also write a post that gave [...]
History Is Not Comfortable
What's It Like To Be Transgendered in Morrison County, MN? Exhibit by Morrison County Historical Society, 2012. What started as a blog post [...]
Education Department Organizational Charts
Our colleague Sheri Levinsky Raskin (Board Member - President at New York City Museum Educators Roundtable) has sent the query below and I thought the [...]
Site Rentals: The Challenging Intersection of Mission and Money
Robert H. Smith Visitor Education Center, President Lincoln's Cottage Contributed by Sahand Miraminy, Events and Programs Coordinator at President Lincoln's Cottage Museums and [...]
An Intern’s Experience
I wanted to share one of our intern's experience with the community. After writing his history of the Peloponnesian War, the ancient Greek historian Thucydides [...]