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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 [...]
Deaccessioning and Capitalization of Collections
In late July, news broke in The New York Times, Boston Globe, and National Public Radio about the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, [...]
#AASLH17 Session: Commemorating Tragedy, Healing Wounds
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 [...]
2016 Annual Meeting Wrap-Up: Session Recordings, Photos, Takeaways, and More
First of all, thank you. Thank you to our program committee, the host committee and local institutions, our onsite volunteers, [...]
Little Fish, Big Pond: One Small Museum Curator’s Conference Experience
Downtown Charlevoix, MI Jacob Thomas was awarded a Small Museums Scholarship to attend the 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting. You [...]
The Self-Directed Nature of Interpretation
This article was originally published in the Spring 2015 issue of History News magazine. You can read the article, which is part of [...]
Placing Family History in Context: A Personal Example & Ideas for Museums
There’s no missing Americans’ passionate interest in genealogy today. Aging baby boomers have greater free time for research and deepened [...]
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 [...]
Traveling 219: The Seneca Trail
Inspired by the "history from the bottom up" tradition of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), Traveling 219: The Seneca Trail collects and documents stories from [...]
Carl Sandburg in Elmhurst
Carl Sandburg in Elmhurst at the Elmhurst Historical Museum focuses on the author’s life from 1919-1928 when he and his family lived in Elmhurst, Illinois, [...]
A Brave Soldier and Honest Gentleman: Lt. James E. H. Foster in the West, 1873-1881
A Brave Soldier and Honest Gentleman: Lt James E. H. Foster in the West, 1873-1881 tells the story of Lt. James E. H. Foster and [...]
The Dred Scott Family and the National Debate Over Slavery
The Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) launched the History Live interactive videoconferencing program to connect its historical and educational resources with a wider audience, especially students. [...]
Emancipating Cliveden
Built in 1767 in Philadelphia as a summer retreat for the wealthy Chew family, the Cliveden house bears the marks of the bloody Battle of [...]