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. By [...]
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 History in [...]
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 that I [...]
Explore Women’s History in Kansas City at #AASLH18!
Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration. By Megan Byrnes, incoming co-chair, AASLH Women's History Affinity Group [...]
Historic Prayers in Historic Churches
By Spencer W. McBride, Ph.D. One of my favorite historical sites to visit whenever I am in Philadelphia is Christ [...]
The Value of Small Museum Experience, or Why I Don’t Have a “Better” Job
By Aimee E. Newell, Ph.D., Executive Director, Luzerne County Historical Society, Wilkes Barre, PA I met someone a couple of months [...]
Educators and Interpreters Gearing Up for the Annual Meeting
By Megan Wood, Director of Museum and Library Services, Ohio History Connection and Chair, Educators and Interpreters Committee At the Annual [...]
Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History
Thirty years ago, the Washington State Historical Society’s board of trustees, headed by publisher and historian John M. McClelland Jr., founded Columbia: The Magazine of [...]
Birthplace of Country Music Museum permanent exhibits
The Birthplace of Country Music Museum (BCMM) opened in August 2014 to tell the story of the 1927 Bristol Sessions recordings, explore how evolving sound technology shaped their [...]
Priesthood Restoration Historic Site
The Priesthood Restoration Site, a permanent historic site of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), formally opened to the public on September [...]
Texas Story Project
The "Texas Story Project" launched November 2014 as a component of the Bullock Texas State History Museum’s website. The project was designed to expand the reach [...]
A Journey to the Moon through Texas
The Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) launched "A Journey to the Moon through Texas," a web exhibit showcasing selected films of NASA’s Apollo program from [...]
Conquering the Fear of Fundraising at Museums and Historic Sites
The leadership team for our largest fundraiser, History with a Twist. In honor of the 50th anniversary of our founding, we had a 1960s [...]