Service in Cultural Heritage
Elizabeth Cruzado Carranza (center) with students from the Maria Parado de Bellido Nº 88104 school in Nivín, Peru. (This blog [...]
Got Icelandic? This Project is Cataloging Icelandic Immigrant Manuscripts at U.S. Historical Organizations
During the late 19th Century and early 20th Century, thousands of Icelanders immigrated to North America. The majority settled in Canada—mostly in a [...]
Three Ways History Organizations Can Collect and Interpret Memorials
Dear Boston: Messages from the Marathon Memorial When faced with tragedies, communities may find healing in creating memorials. Museums and [...]
How to Connect with the Field Services Alliance at the 2016 AASLH/ MMA Annual Meeting
The Field Services Alliance (FSA) is made up of an eclectic group of professionals with wide-ranging backgrounds from all over [...]
This Annual Meeting is the BEST for Historic House Museums
This Annual Meeting is the BEST for Historic House Museums! Admittedly, I may be a little biased because I am [...]
Six Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in August
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program [...]
28 AASLH Members Receive Over $9 Million in NEH Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $79 million in grants for 290 humanities projects [...]
MY Historic House
I don't know anything about this house. Okay, that’s not entirely true. I know that I lived here for just under three months in 1999 [...]
AASLH Offering Two Workshops on Public Programming
Register Early and Save! Hurry, Space is Limited! Focusing On Visitors: Public Programming And Exhibits At History Institutions This workshop provides a broad overview of [...]
How Clean are Your Interactives?
As a museum educator, I was horrified when I saw the media headlines alleging that there was a measles scare at the Please Touch Museum [...]
Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium Project
For the past decade, the Pikes Peak Library District (PPLD) has hosted a day-long symposium for the public. Every year a different historical topic is [...]
Upstairs, Downstairs Tour
The Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion is Philadelphia's only authentically restored Victorian house museum. Located in the historic Germantown section of the city, the Mansion was built [...]
Irish Sheet Music Archives Website
The Irish Sheet Music Archives website project was envisioned to not only give global access to the nearly 6,000 pieces of sheet music in the [...]