What You Can Do on Summer Vacation
Did you ever have to write the typical “What I Did on Summer Vacation” essay on the first day of school? It [...]
Master Local Historian: AASLH Launches Historian Training Program for the Public
A photograph of the Tennessee State Library and Archives building taken on July 17, 1956, a few short years after it [...]
To Do Rightly: Congregations as Incubators of American Activism
Photo by Victor Manuel Ramos. Courtesy of Arch Street Meeting House. Last year, the Arch Street Friends Meeting House in [...]
How to Choose an Object Name for Cataloging an Abstract of Title
Lynne Sylvester of the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation in Florida has posed this question: I have to catalog an Abstract of Title [...]
Cemeteries: The Eternal Classroom
When I read Michele M. Celani’s blog post about the effectiveness of historical markers in the classroom I thought “oh [...]
Getting Schooled in History Relevance by Hamilton
By Bethany Hawkins, AASLH I am really late to the party. I just listened to the Hamilton: An American [...]
The Legacy of Dime Museums and the Freakshow : How the Past Impacts the Present
This article was originally published in the Autumn 2013 issue of History News magazine. You can read the article in PDF format [...]
Penn College History Trail
The Pennsylvania College of Technology History Trail is a walking path around the college's main campus punctuated by 17 informational kiosks. Installed in 2013, as [...]
"I My Needle Ply with Skill" Maine Schoolgirl Needlework of the Federal Era
Although in the Federal era educational opportunities for young women were limited, private academies--often run by women--offered training in academic subjects and in fancy sewing [...]
The DeBraak and Its Atlantic World
The HMS DeBraak, a British Royal Navy Sloop of War, tells the unique story of the role the state of Delaware played in international maritime [...]
Outside the Homeland: The Intermountain Indian School
Outside the Homeland: The Intermountain Indian School at the Brigham City Museum of Art and History chronicles the more than 30 years the Intermountain Indian [...]
Play the Past
The Minnesota Historical Society has created a new learning paradigm for student engagement through its Play with the Past program. This new model for field [...]
Cowboys, Real and Imagined
The New Mexico History Museum sought to draw visitors from across the state into an iconic regional narrative with their new exhibit. Using the museum's [...]