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History Relevance in Canada
Tim Grove is Chief of Museum Learning at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, a founding member of the History Relevance [...]
Welcome to #NightmareAtTheMuseum Week
A policy a day keeps the chaos away. Does your organization have policies and procedures in place to deal with the stickier [...]
In Memoriam: Laura Hockaday
In Kansas City, people of color got little recognition for their civic contributions until Laura Hockaday saw an opportunity and acted. As [...]
Warrior Nation: A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe
Warrior Nation: A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe tells a new and compelling version of Minnesota’s creation story. It [...]
My Grandfather’s Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation
In My Grandfather’s Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation, historian Brenda Child blends a historical study [...]
Custom House: Restoring a St. Paul Landmark in Lowertown
In November 2015, the Ramsey County Historical Society published Custom House: Restoring a St. Paul Landmark in Lowertown by James [...]
2016 Kammen Award
Named in honor of the late Michael Kammen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Cornell University’s Newton C. Farr Professor of American [...]
Corporate History at the 2015 Annual Meeting
This year’s conference was a lot of fun, and we had a very strong turnout at the corporate history tour, luncheon, and session. Kentucky is [...]
The Small Museum Tool Box
They say you have to be able to wear multiple hats to work in small museum. But what about those times when you need to [...]
I Remember When – Part 9
Permutations of Portability I recall my first “portable” computer – a Kaypro with two 5.25” floppy drives and a 20Mb (wow!) hard drive. It weighed [...]
2015 AASLH Re-Cap: Criteria for Assessing Program Ideas
At the 2015 AASLH Annual Meeting, the Educators and Interpreters Committee hosted a session about large-scale events. We talked about the friction in organizations between large cultivation [...]
Women’s History Was Everywhere at AASLH2015
From learning about Maggie Bailey, Kentucky bootlegger, to visiting the Old Armory Building where Ida B. Wells spoke to the National Association of Colored Women [...]
2015 Actions of the Council
On the opening day of the 2015 Annual Meeting in Louisville, the AASLH Council met to discuss the organization's membership, finances, the Aspirations Task Force, the [...]