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AASLH Announces Collections Management Software Task Force
By Julie Kemper, Kentucky Historical Society We all depend on our collections management software (CMS), but some days it just won’t do [...]
Seven African American Museums Selected for First NMAAHC StEPs Cohort
Over the next twelve months, seven African American history organizations will form a cohort while receiving guidance in the areas of management [...]
Crowdsourcing Slavery Interpretation Challenges
By Kristin Gallas, Interpreting Slavery Ever feel like there is a lot of potential that goes untapped at conferences? Let’s change that. [...]
Three Ways History Organizations Can Collect and Interpret Memorials
Dear Boston: Messages from the Marathon Memorial When faced with tragedies, communities may find healing in creating memorials. [...]
Three Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in June
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 [...]
Uniting Town and Gown: Municipal Museum Partners with Local Colleges
A portion of the Made for the Tourist Trade exhibition at the Greeley History Museum, open from January 18 [...]
AASLH Emerging History Professionals Group Welcomes New Committee Members
The AASLH Emerging History Professionals Affinity Community is please to announce five new committee members joining the EHP Committee for [...]
Pulitzer Prize Winner Annette Gordon-Reed Elected Trustee of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (March 4, 2016) – The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (AASLH members since 1989) board of trustees has elected Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and legal scholar [...]
When Baseball Went to War: U.S. Navy Baseball History Exhibit Opens at Puget Sound Navy Museum
The Puget Sound Navy Museum (AASLH members since 2015) in Bremerton, Washington is excited to announce the opening of a new exhibit on March 4th. [...]
The Heritage Society in Houston Receives Large Grant for Marketing
Award Encourages Visitors to Tour, Touch and Live Houston's Storied Past Houston, TX - March 1, 2016 - Historians and preservation enthusiasts now have a [...]
“Error” Is Not an Accepted Term
One of the great benefits of Nomenclature 4.0 is that it corrects the errors that we found after Nomenclature 3.0 was published. But, wouldn’t you [...]
Baby Boom: Motherhood & Museums
Among my little circle of friends, the last year has been quite the baby boom—three close friends added little ones to their families. Aunt Melissa [...]
Survey-Based Initiative Seeks to Better Understand Professional Development in Museum, Library, and Archives Sectors
If you are a library, archives, or museum professional, your voice is needed in a national project to better understand continuing education/professional development (CE/PD). The Mapping [...]