AASLH Annual Meeting 5K Registration Now Open
5K Runners at the 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting. Are you a runner? Do you like to run with friends? Do [...]
Watch Your Language! Denominational and Congregational Lingos
AASLH has been giving a lot of attention recently to how we as interpreters use language. "We live by stories," wrote Nobel [...]
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington Welcomes New Executive Director
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington has announced the appointment of Kara Blond as the Society's new Executive Director, effective September [...]
Notes to Self or When to Stay Up Late at Conferences
AASLH conference time is almost here! Last year was such a great conference, and I even wrote a few notes [...]
Telling a Good Story Makes for a Better Tour
The guided tour... people either love them or hate them. A good guided tour can captivate an audience. A bad [...]
What is the Religious History Affinity Group doing in Detroit?
The 2016 Annual Meeting is just around the corner and many AASLH members will be taking in the sites, catching [...]
Nomenclature Query: Classifying a “Permanent Machine”
We received a query from Diane Kester at the Wayne County Historical Association & Museum in Goldsboro, North Carolina: What do you [...]
Remember the Ladies!
March is Women's History Month, so what better time to announce the formation of our newest affinity group? Formed in November 2014, the Women's History [...]
The T-Rex of Awesomeness
When two museum friends gather, you often end up going to a museum. Such was the case last fall, when I headed to Chicago for [...]
I Remember When – Part 7
Production Line Cataloging I recall the experience of working with the volunteer staff of a shire (county) museum in Western Australia back around 1990, and [...]
The Ideal Director?
For AASLH’s online course on Leadership and Administration, I was required to review sample job descriptions for directors in history organizations. I was not looking [...]
The Future of Education: The Role of Museums and Historical Organizations
The Center for the Future of Museums at the American Alliance of Museums put out a report that includes a call to action for museums [...]
When is a Coin, Not Really a Coin?
When is a coin not really a coin? That's not a trick question by any means. For a military college, there is a very distinct [...]