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Understanding the Challenges of History in Our Parks
Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail, Mississippi By Antone Pierucci, Riverside County Regional Park and Open-Space District, Jurupa Valley, CA It’s [...]
AASLH Receives NEH Grant to Prepare for 250th Anniversary
This week, AASLH received a $150,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop planning and educational resources to help [...]
Nomenclature Available as Open Data
Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is now free for download in a number of formats! The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) and AASLH [...]
Collections Management: Dispatches from the Trenches
By Nik Honeysett, CEO, Balboa Park Online Collaborative Beginning in November 2017, the Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC) contracted with [...]
Leading by Inclusion
By John Dichtl, AASLH President and CEO Inclusivity and relevance are core values at the heart of AASLH and central [...]
Chime In Before the Annual Meeting
Museum as Site for Social Action (MASS Action) Mia Convening, October 6-8, 2016, Minneapolis Institute of Art. Participants joined [...]
Conference Context: Corruption and Consequences in Kansas City’s Pendergast Era
Conference Context is a blog series discussing local history and contemporary topics in our next Annual Meeting destination: Kansas City, [...]
StEPs Spotlight: The Pioneer Museum is Learning How to Better Serve their Audience
Exciting changes are happening at the 800+ organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations). Our "StEPs Spotlight" series [...]
We Can Do It! WWII
While many Americans are familiar with World War II events such as Pearl Harbor or D-Day, most are less familiar with aspects of the war that [...]
Challenges and Choices in Pennsylvania's Forests
“Challenges and Choices in Pennsylvania’s Forests” explores six time periods, from 800 BCE through the present, with the goal of illustrating the intended and unintended consequences of [...]
Cleveland in World War II
Cleveland in World War II is a collaborative work based on archival sources and contemporary interviews by journalist Brian Albrecht of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and [...]
Mistakes Were Made
Note from blog editors: Sean Kelley and a panel presented a session at the 2016 AASLH Annual Meeting about the lies we tell at historic [...]
Meet the Staff–Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens/Akron Public Schools Place-Based Education Curricula
From October 2014 to November 2015, 736 fifth grade students participated in “Meet the Staff,” an experiential learning curriculum created in partnership with Akron Public [...]