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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 [...]
Storify from #AASLHchat on Incorporating Pop Culture into Tours and Programming
Last week, AASLH hosted our very first #AASLHchat on Twitter. Our guest hosts, the Educators and Interpreters Affinity Community, created [...]
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 [...]
"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 [...]
Rough Point Valance VIP Project
Rough Point is the English baronial-style summer residence of Doris Duke located in Newport, Rhode Island. In 1993 upon her death the estate was bequeathed [...]