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#AASLH2019: Explore More at an Evening Event
By McKenna Britton, Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia is an assemblage. A city created from a collage of peoples, cultures, [...]
#AASLH2019: More than the Founding Fathers: Places to Visit in Philadelphia
By David Young, Delaware Historical Society, Wilmington, DE AASLH 2019 Host Committee Co-Chair When AASLH last hosted its annual meeting in Philadelphia [...]
#AASLH2019: Creative and Experimental Sessions
The four session tracks at the 2019 AASLH Annual Meeting in Philadelphia this August are designed to organize the conference content [...]
Book Review: A Practical Guide to Museum Ethics
This review originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of History News. A Practical Guide to Museum Ethics By Sally [...]
Six Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in January
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in the last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Storify from #AASLHchat on Incorporating Pop Culture into Tours and Programming
Last week, AASLH hosted our very first #AASLHchat on Twitter. Our guest hosts, the Educators and Interpreters Affinity Community, created a great set of prompts [...]
Notes to Self or When to Stay Up Late at Conferences
AASLH conference time is almost here! Last year was such a great conference, and I even wrote a few notes to myself to help remember [...]
Telling a Good Story Makes for a Better Tour
The guided tour... people either love them or hate them. A good guided tour can captivate an audience. A bad one can have visitors looking [...]
What is the Religious History Affinity Group doing in Detroit?
The 2016 Annual Meeting is just around the corner and many AASLH members will be taking in the sites, catching a baseball game, and reconnecting [...]
Nomenclature Query: Classifying a “Permanent Machine”
We received a query from Diane Kester at the Wayne County Historical Association & Museum in Goldsboro, North Carolina: What do you suggest for old permanent machine? [...]
How to Connect with the Educators & Interpreters at the AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting
Educators & Interpreters…Start Planning! Holy cow—September is here! Forget about back to school, Labor Day, the end of another delightful summer…it’s time to start thinking [...]