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The Personal is Professional: Reckoning with Slavers in the Family
By Sarah Jencks, Director of Education and Interpretation, Ford's Theatre My parents are in their seventies, and they still live in the [...]
Four Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in May
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program designed specifically [...]
AASLH Announces Election Slate for Council and Leadership Nominating Committee
We are proud to announce the slate of candidates for four open spots on the AASLH Council, three Council officers, and two spots [...]
Hesitant to Discuss Religious History? Not at Kalaupapa
Kalaupapa Peninsula In our relationships with co-workers, friends, and family, there are generally two topics we’re inclined to [...]
Real World History: Formal Learning in Museums and Historic Sites
A Real World History student at the Phillips Collection The idea for Real World History came to me on a [...]
Public History and the Changing Nature of Faith
Central Synagogue in the Lexington Avenue, New York City As a Divinity school student with a focus on [...]
Women Who Mentor: Gemma Birnbaum, Assistant Director of Curriculum, The National WWII Museum
The National WWII Museum’s U.S. Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center. One of the founding objectives of the Women’s [...]
Nomenclature 4.0: New Terms for Mobile Devices
Today’s world is increasingly inundated with new models of mobile devices. This increase of various technological devices prompted the Nomenclature Task Force to think about [...]
A High-Water Mark for History, When the Community Is the Museum, and Other Highlights from History News’ Autumn 2015 Issue
It’s always exciting to get the first box of the new History News at the AASLH offices. Though we may have talked about the articles [...]
Peabody Essex Museum Receives $750K Grant to Expand Native American Fellowship
The Boston Globe reported this morning that the Peabody Essex Museum (AASLH member since 2002) has received a $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in [...]
Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents Welcomes Applications for 2016
The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) welcomes applications for the 45th Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents, to be held 31 July – 4 [...]
Interpreters and Customer Service: The Importance of Good Service in Museums
We’ve all experienced it at one time or another: horrible customer service. For those of us in the museum world, it is especially offensive when [...]
Federal Funding Bill Passes, Includes Increased Spending on History
The history community fared well in the FY2016 federal funding bill that Congress passed on December 18, 2015. This $1.15 trillion omnibus appropriations package increased [...]