Moving Luzerne County Historical Society Forward
By Aimee E. Newell, Ph.D., Executive Director, Luzerne County Historical Society with introduction by Cherie Cook, Senior Program Manager, AASLH Assessment programs [...]
AASLH Announces 2019 Small Museums Scholarship Winners
Rocky statue outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Now in their thirteenth year, the Small Museums Affinity Community’s annual scholarships help [...]
Ideas for Funding Your Organization’s Visitor Research
By Cherie Cook, Senior Program Manager, AASLH Visitor satisfaction is a “big deal,” writes Colleen Dilenschneider in her blog post "The Three [...]
MayDay Sale on Preparedness Resources from AASLH
Every May 1, public historians and heritage professionals focus on the important work of emergency planning and preparedness. Historic resources [...]
14 Ways Organizations Are Using Visitors Count Data to Better Understand Visitors
Photograph used with permission from Conner Prairie Are you looking for accurate and actionable data to better [...]
Education Crash Course at Locust Grove Workshop
Last month, I attended my first AASLH workshop, "Focusing on Visitors: Public Programming and Exhibits at History Institutions." My attendance was [...]
Personal Encounters with the Tough Stuff of History
In the last few years, our field has begun to engage more intentionally with the stories and lives of enslaved [...]
2016 Kammen Award
Named in honor of the late Michael Kammen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Cornell University’s Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture Emeritus, this [...]
Minnesota Dugout Canoe Project
“As the land of more than 10,000 lakes; home to the headwaters of the Mississippi River; and host to nearly 200 miles of Lake Superior [...]
People on the Move: 50 Years of Documenting and Researching Migration Experiences at the Immigration History Research Center & Archives
People on the Move: 50 Years of Documenting and Researching Migration Experiences at the Immigration History Research Center & Archives presented broad themes of global [...]
The Haymarket Project
The Haymarket Project features the film and exhibition, Haymarket: the Soul of the City, a Haymarket publication, and tours of Haymarket. The goal is to [...]
Re-envisioning the Ropes Mansion
In 2009, a fire forced the evacuation of the contents of the Peabody Essex Museum’s Ropes Mansion— a carefully preserved legacy of a single Salem [...]
The Private Jefferson: From the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Thomas Jefferson has been described as an “American Sphinx”: as the drafter of the Declaration of Independence and president of the United States, he is [...]