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2017 StEPs Graduate: Fort Nisqually Living History Museum
Exciting changes are happening at the 900 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations). Our [...]
Creating Connections Among Small Museums at #AASLH17
By Hannah King, Stevens County Historical Society, Morris, MN Thanks to the Small Museums Scholarship program, I was able to attend the AASLH Annual [...]
Continuing the Conversation to Change the Conversation
Ceiling of the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center. Conferences offer a break from the daily norm of our [...]
Finding Eleanor Pack: Challenges and Methods in Researching Domestic Staff at Nemours
Kitchen at Nemours, undated. Nemours Estate Archive. Historic estates are living in a post-“Downton Abbey” world and visitors [...]
A Few Simple Tips for Public Historians Working with Confrontational Visitors
An interpreter at Mackinac State Historic Parks, Michigan. This article was originally posted on Exploring the Past and is [...]
My 5 Favorite Props to Use in Programs
One thing that every interpreter has to do to be effective is to get and keep their audiences' attention. If [...]
Visitors and Originality in Historic House Museums: A Look at the Impact of Furnishing Plans
Library: Longfellow’s House – Washington Headquarters National Historic Site; By Daderot (Own work) [CC0] “Is everything original?” “Is [...]
Are You Ready to Remember the Ladies?
Welcome! Since launching this year for Women’s History Month, we’ve been hard at work formalizing our structure and communications to the group, building a strong [...]
Community Curators: A New Level of Volunteering
Volunteers are essential to any organization and department, especially in museums. All of us have used volunteers to lend an extra hand in many things, [...]
The Art of Being an Intern
A few years ago, I was at my internship at the Raupp Museum, a small historical society in suburban Chicago, when my supervisor returned from [...]
Nomenclature 4.0 – Available For Pre-Order
Order Nomenclature 4.0 for Museum Cataloging directly through Rowman & Littlefield Ordering Nomenclature 4.0 The Nomenclature Task Force is pleased and excited to [...]
Spirituality After Religion
During the course of a week I wear many hats, including those of: history professional, who examines and interprets the past; museum futurist, who tracks emerging [...]
Public History Employer Survey
Even as job prospects for historians have improved with the passing of the Great Recession, questions about the overall health of public history remain. [...]