Six Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in March
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 standards program [...]
Finding the Hidden Women in Iceland’s History
Photo from the Women's Day Off on October 24, 1975, when 95% of all Icelandic women walked out of work and [...]
Instructions Not Included: Breaking Down Organizational Needs
A fellow archivist disclosed that the most rational approach to archiving is to never treat it like a single-headed beast. You will [...]
Practicing Facilitation: Lessons from the Tenement Museum
Visitors on the Hard Times tour. Collection of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. This post was originally published [...]
StEPs Spotlight: The Black Heritage Society of Washington State on Becoming Better Stewards of Their Collections
Exciting changes are happening at the 800+ organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History [...]
Idealism, Ego, and Wising Up: Having My Idealism Crushed Helped My Career
When I was in my mid-20s I was working on a community engagement grant project that involved bringing K-12 students [...]
Bridging the Divide: Connecting Stagville’s Past to Its Modern Community
Row of original slave dwellings, including one renovated by sharecroppers. Courtesy of Historic Stagville Photograph Archive. By Jayd [...]
Worcester Revolution of 1774
On September 6, 1774, 4,622 militiamen from throughout Worcester County, Massachusetts, marched into the town and closed the Royal Courts, forcing officials to defy Parliament [...]
Native Neighbors from Freedom’s Frontier’s Past
In 2012, the Franklin County Historical Society (FCHS) approached Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area (FFNHA) with an idea for a public history program to highlight [...]
WWI Memorial Design Finalists on Exhibit in DC til Dec 22
WASHINGTON, DC: The U.S. World War I Centennial Commission will publicly exhibit the five finalist design concepts for the national World War I Memorial in [...]
Overland Park: A Place of Peace, Comfort, and Plenty
Overland Park: A Place of Peace, Comfort, and Plenty is the first large-scale exhibit project in the OPHS’s twenty-year history and was shown in the [...]
Harrison County, Indiana Driving Tour
In 2014, the Historical Society of Harrison County completed an ambitious project to construct a driving tour of the county’s historic sites. 232 sites are [...]
Motoring Through Edgewater
Motoring Through Edgewater explores how the automobile transformed the Edgewater community and the nation between 1900-1930 through photos, maps, documents, artifacts, and original historical research. [...]