What Are the Legislative Issues Facing the Field in 2021? A Report from Museums Advocacy Day
By Bethany L. Hawkins, AASLH Chief of Operations On February 22-23, AASLH staff joined hundreds of museum advocates from around the [...]
Where Are Our Think Tanks?
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis This is what you shall do…re-examine all you have been told at school or church [...]
Measuring Social Impact to Make Social Changes: Learn How To Get Involved
By Michelle A. Mileham, Ph.D., Project Manager, Measurement of Museum Social Impact (MOMSI), Utah Division of Arts and Museums In what [...]
Making Connections with Women’s History at #AASLH2019
"Making the Private Public" tour group photo with Justina Barrett (front row, left) from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. [...]
Exhibit Hall Inspiration at #AASLH2019
By Michelle Podkowa, DuPage County Historical Museum, Wheaton, IL This spring, I was asked by AASLH to be on the [...]
Sponge on a Mission: an Emerging Professional’s #AASLH2019 Experience
By Schillica Howard, Banneker-Douglass Museum, Annapolis, MD When I learned about the Douglas Evelyn Scholarship for Minority Professionals, I knew [...]
Comedy Connections at #AASLH2019
By Mark Kratzner, Red Skelton Museum of American Comedy, Vincennes, IN Although I worked media support for a major Indianapolis [...]
I Said Bang! A History of the Dirt Bowl, the Crown Jewel of the Most Basketball-Obsessed City in America
This project is the recipient of a 2017 History in Progress Award. Inaugural Dirt Bowl, 1969 In 1969, after the loss of Martin [...]
StEPs Spotlight: The Lillian E. Jones Museum
Exciting changes are happening at the nearly 1,000 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations). Our “StEPs Spotlight” blog [...]
Book Review: The Past and Future City
This review originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of History News. The Past and Future City: How Historic Preservation is Reviving America’s Communities By [...]
History Relevance in Canada
Tim Grove is Chief of Museum Learning at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, a founding member of the History Relevance initiative, and Chair [...]
Welcome to #NightmareAtTheMuseum Week
A policy a day keeps the chaos away. Does your organization have policies and procedures in place to deal with the stickier aspects of running [...]
In Memoriam: Laura Hockaday
In Kansas City, people of color got little recognition for their civic contributions until Laura Hockaday saw an opportunity and acted. As the self-proclaimed “people [...]