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Ready and Rarin’ to Go Explore Women’s History in Austin!
Photograph of the march from Seneca Falls to the National Women’s Conference in Houston, 1977. Join us in Austin for [...]
#AASLH17 Sessions: Community Engagement and Teacher Professional Development
As we prepare for the 2017 Annual Meeting in Austin, the Educators and Interpreters Affinity Group Committee is trying an experiment. We’re giving presenters who are [...]
Out of Storage and into the Classroom: Enriching the Curriculum with a Campus Archive
Naomi Niemann (Class of 2019) shares her work digitizing and transcribing an unpublished manuscript by Edward Beecher, first president of Illinois [...]
Magical Awards Banquet: A Small Museums Scholarship Experience
Elizabeth Marston, Director of the Elgin History Museum (Elgin, IL), was awarded a scholarship to attend the 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting. You [...]
Recap: Corporate History at the 2016 AASLH Annual Meeting
Thank you to all those that attended our Corporate History tour, session, and luncheon. It turned out to be a [...]
Guests are People Too: Avoiding Toxic Behind-the-Scenes Venting
Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society Anyone have school tours running around lately? Anyone tired from [...]
Putting Visitor Research Data to Work at the Colony of Avalon
The Colony of Avalon is widely recognized as the best preserved early English colonial site in North America. Located in [...]
The TAH Hangover
If you worked at a moderately sized history museum between 2001 and 2011 you are probably familiar with the Teaching American History (TAH) grant program [...]
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 [...]