Living in the Past: the Heritage House Program at Strawbery Banke Museum
The front entrance of the Penhallow House on Washington St., Portsmouth, NH. In a transitional world, museums must stay relevant [...]
Sharing History with a Smartphone App
Visitors exploring the West Virginia Women’s Heritage Trail on Clio at Arts Monongahela in Morgantown, West Virginia. As history professionals, [...]
Protecting the Legacy: Documenting Political Activity of African American Women in Tennessee Prior to 1930
Studio portrait of Annie Sybil Thomas Jarret taken by James P. Newton around 1900 in Memphis, Tennessee. Two years ago, [...]
Saving WWII History: Preserving an Original Structure from an American Concentration Camp
In 2015, the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation (HMWF) rescued a structure used to incarcerate Japanese Americans during World War II. [...]
Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History
Thirty years ago, the Washington State Historical Society’s board of trustees, headed by publisher and historian John M. McClelland Jr., [...]
Birthplace of Country Music Museum permanent exhibits
The Birthplace of Country Music Museum (BCMM) opened in August 2014 to tell the story of the 1927 Bristol Sessions recordings, explore [...]
Priesthood Restoration Historic Site
The Priesthood Restoration Site, a permanent historic site of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), formally opened [...]
Advocacy Alert: Urge Congress to Restore K-12 History & Civics Education
Members of the Historical Community, AASLH and the National Coalition for History rarely raise legislative alerts like this one. But we need your help today [...]
The Last Homestead
The Last Homestead tells the story of Linda and Harold “Mac” McKinstry, a young couple who homesteaded at the mouth of Pacific Creek in 1915, not far [...]
“What I’m Looking for in a Museum Visit”: The Seasoned Museum-Goer
Sometimes, people who start out as our visitors become something more: volunteers, collaborators, contractors, the list goes on and on. In 1999, Ken and Ruth [...]
Stitching History from the Holocaust
Six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. Each had a story and a life, yet for too many of them, we are left with [...]
West by Orphan Train
It seems incomprehensible that there was a time in America’s not-so-distant past when nearly a quarter of a million children from East Coast orphanages were [...]
A Stone of Hope: Black Experiences in the Fox Cities
In 2014, the History Museum at the Castle and African Heritage, Inc. created a civic engagement initiative to highlight the marginalized history of Black experiences [...]