Most Trust Museums as Sources of Historical Information
By John Dichtl, AASLH President and CEO Twenty years ago, we learned from Rosenzweig and Thelen’s The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses [...]
Lessons to Learn from Hollywood “History”
© 20th Century Fox The week after Christmas, I saw The Greatest Showman which is a highly imaginative musical movie [...]
2018 Small Museums Scholarships Available
Small Museums Scholarships 2018 AASLH Annual Meeting and Online Conference Kansas City, MO – September 26-29 DEADLINE: June 8 The American Association [...]
A Historic House Exposed: Why Millermore is Pulling Back the Curtain for Visitors
The Master Bedroom currently contains all of the modern things that complete a historic home. In honor of [...]
Civil Rights and a Civil Society
Supervisors to first-responders attend training offered by staff of the Civil Rights Room of the Nashville Public Library. [...]
Hallowed Grounds: Sites of African American Memories
In February 2016, Stones River National Battlefield (SRNB) in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, debuted two public programs to celebrate Black History Month. [...]
AASLH Responds to President’s Executive Order Restricting Entry to U.S.
Feb 1, 2017 AASLH Responds to President’s Executive Order Restricting Entry to U.S. At this moment, when the President of [...]
Andrew Jackson: Born for a Storm
Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage unveiled its newest exhibition, Andrew Jackson: Born for a Storm on January 8, 2015. This exhibition, timed to celebrate the bicentennial of [...]
Woodrow Wilson Family Home: A Museum of Reconstruction in Columbia & Richland County
In 2005, Historic Columbia closed the Woodrow Wilson Family Home historic site due to extensive structural issues. $3.1 million in funding from grants, private donations [...]
The Lost Museum
Public Humanities graduate students at Brown University re-imagined and resurrected the Jenks Museum, a natural history collection that existed on the university’s campus from 1871 [...]
Dressing the Bed: A Living Demonstration of 18th Century Needlework
The Betsy Ross House is unique among peer museums nationally in its interpretation of the life of a working-class, eighteenth-century tradeswoman. The c. 1740 row [...]
The Civil War in Pennsylvania
As part of PA Civil War 150, the statewide commemoration of Pennsylvania’s role in the Civil War, the Heinz History Center, with support from the [...]
The Big Graph
Over the past several years, programming at Eastern State Penitentiary has increasingly addressed contemporary corrections and the recent, truly historic changes in the United States [...]