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Join Us for Community Conversations at #AASLH2019
Community in action at #AASLH2018. By Aja Bain, AASLH Program and Publications Manager (and Community Enthusiast) For years as a [...]
The Philadelphia Psychiatrist Who Changed LGBTQ History
By Hannah Fisher Gray, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Come learn about the man who changed the course of LGBTQ history at [...]
Focus on Women’s History at #AASLH2019
Philadelphia Museum of Art, East Entrance. Photo: Philadelphia Museum of Art By Jennifer Krafchik, Co-Chair, AASLH Women’s History Affinity Group [...]
We Are All the Spinning Wheel
Throughout the course of my visits to museums, historic houses, and historic sites around New England, I found one specific [...]
Out with the Old, In with the Slightly More Updated and Stimulating Exhibit Experience
The Hezekiah Alexander House on the Charlotte Museum of History's property dates to 1774. By Sara Blanchett Through [...]
5 Sites to Celebrate National Poetry Month
National Poetry Month, inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, has become a worldwide celebration of the beauty [...]
14 AASLH Members Receive Over $2.5 Million in NEH Grants
This month the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $18.6 million in grants for 199 humanities projects. [...]
Finding Eleanor Pack: Challenges and Methods in Researching Domestic Staff at Nemours
Kitchen at Nemours, undated. Nemours Estate Archive. Historic estates are living in a post-“Downton Abbey” world and visitors frequently ask about the domestic [...]
A Few Simple Tips for Public Historians Working with Confrontational Visitors
An interpreter at Mackinac State Historic Parks, Michigan. This article was originally posted on Exploring the Past and is re-posted here with permission from [...]
My 5 Favorite Props to Use in Programs
One thing that every interpreter has to do to be effective is to get and keep their audiences' attention. If no one is listening then [...]
Visitors and Originality in Historic House Museums: A Look at the Impact of Furnishing Plans
Library: Longfellow’s House – Washington Headquarters National Historic Site; By Daderot (Own work) [CC0] “Is everything original?” “Is this what the dining room [...]
AASLH Welcomes First 30 Academic Program Members
In April 2016, AASLH launched a brand new membership type for Academic Programs. Designed specifically to meet the needs of faculty and students in history, [...]
Reconsideration of Memorials and Monuments
This article will be published in the upcoming Fall 2016 issue of History News, the official magazine of AASLH. To receive this issue of the magazine, [...]