2018 Goal: Become a Small Museum Pro!
Are you a volunteer working in a small local museum? Are you a recent graduate whose degree did not fully prepare you [...]
Call for Papers: Interpreting Labor History at Museums and Historic Sites
Interest in and support for labor unions is on the rise in the United States, especially among millennials. Younger Americans tend to view [...]
Managing Interpreters: Presentations as Road Maps
Meandering. Wandering aimlessly. Lost. Confused. Does this describe your worst road trip? Maybe it describes the conversations between the public and your [...]
The Wright Lesson: How a Small Historical Society Took a Risk and Generated Local Recognition, Community, and Financial Support
Front of Glencoe Historical Society This article was orginally published in the Autumn 2016 issue of History News, the official magazine [...]
AASLH’s 2016 Annual Report (PDF)
Here at AASLH, 2016 was a year of building upward and outward. In order to best share all the changes [...]
The Courageous and Faithful: The Cavalry at Jefferson Barracks
The Courageous and Faithful: The Cavalry at Jefferson Barracks was a local history project centering on an exhibition in the [...]
Toys from the Attic: Stories of American Childhood
Toys from the Attic: Stories of American Childhood is the centerpiece of The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures permanent [...]
Castle on the Cove: the Connecticut State Prison and Wethersfield
Castle on the Cove explores the Connecticut State Prison while it operated in Wethersfield between 1827 and 1963 and its significant influence on the town [...]
RACE Project at History Colorado
On September 20, 2014, the History Colorado Center brought the traveling exhibit RACE: Are We So Different? to Denver for three months. The exhibit was [...]
Voices of Wartime: Telluride During World War II
Voices of Wartime explored how a global conflict affected the everyday lives of those living in the small, isolated mining community of Telluride, Colorado. The [...]
Scandal! Vice, Crime, and Morality in Montréal
Based on extensive documentary research and a wide‐ranging collection of personal accounts from Montrealers from the era along with comments by contemporary specialists, Scandal! Vice, [...]
Vashon Island's Native People: Navigating Seas of Change
The exhibit Vashon Island’s Native People: Navigating Seas of Change, created by the all-volunteer Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Museum, provided insights into the culture and unwritten [...]
The A-mazing Mendes Cohen
The exhibit concept for The A-mazing Mendes Cohen was to illuminate nineteenth-century history and the formation of Jewish-American identity through the life of an obscure [...]