AASLH Announces 3 New Books from Rowman & Littlefield
The AASLH Series at Rowman & Littlefield Publishers is proud to announce three new titles for summer. Covering a wide range of [...]
StEPs Spotlight: Essex Historical Society is Achieving Success Through Change and Risk-Taking
Exciting changes are happening at the 900 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations). Our [...]
AASLH Announces 2017 Small Museums Scholarship Winners
Now in their eleventh year, the Small Museums Affinity Group's annual scholarships help colleagues from small museums across the country join us [...]
Recap of Women’s History at the 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting
Van Hoosen Farm, September 2016 visit. Photo by Susan Ferentinos. Our women’s history offerings at the joint meeting [...]
Top Takeaways from the #AASLHMMA2016 Mentoring Roundtable
Thank you to everyone who joined us in Detroit for our Emerging History Professionals Mentoring Roundtable (and for our Happy [...]
What AASLH Attendees Want to Learn at the 2017 Annual Meeting
We sent all attendees of the 2016 Annual Meeting a survey to find out what we did right and what [...]
Can I Call It A Coozy? Classifying the Iconic Beverage Holder in Collections
Shortly after Nomenclature 4.0 was released, a colleague of mine John Neill, Riley County Historical Museum contacted me through social media asking, [...]
An Illuminating Proposal: How a Small Museum Saved Big by Going Green
Waving a sheet of tablet paper covered with figures, Ted Yahraus came into our small museum one day in March and said, “I’ve figured out [...]
Public Historian, Corporate Historian
When I was invited to guest-write a blog post relating to corporate history, my first thought was: am I a corporate historian? Or am I [...]
Something Old, Something New: Sharing History During Weddings & Rentals
How do you share the history of your historic house or site during rental events? At Indiana Landmarks’ 1865 Morris-Butler House we've been asking ourselves the [...]
What I Look For In A Museum Visit
What I Look for in a Museum Visit is an on-going series in which museum visitors of all ages, backgrounds and interest levels are invited [...]
That Book Idea You’ve Been Thinking About? We’ve Got an Outlet for That!
After a long (and often very snowy winter), spring has sprung. With spring comes new life and new possibilities. Perhaps it’s time to give life [...]
Posters from the Front and Back
I’ve been working with a new acquisition that keeps reminding me why sometimes I practice corporate history, sometimes federal government history, and many times both. [...]