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Three Ways History Organizations Can Collect and Interpret Memorials
Dear Boston: Messages from the Marathon Memorial When faced with tragedies, communities may find healing in creating memorials. Museums and [...]
Three Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in June
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in the last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program [...]
Uniting Town and Gown: Municipal Museum Partners with Local Colleges
A portion of the Made for the Tourist Trade exhibition at the Greeley History Museum, open from January 18 – December [...]
How Heritage Museums & Gardens Use Visitors Count to Make Unforgettable Visitor Experiences
Working on the Visitors Count project for the last couple of years has been a satisfying experience of learning where [...]
What Taking History to Underserved Communities Taught Me About Museum Education
This summer, I am completing a fellowship program through The Columbus Foundation at the Ohio History Connection. I have been [...]
Catalina Island Museum Announces Executive Director Transition
The Catalina Island Museum in Avalon, California (members since 2001) announces the upcoming departure of its Executive Director, Dr. Michael [...]
Why Religious History is Essential to a Thriving Democracy
Old abandoned white wooden chapel on prairie at sunset with cloudy sky. In 1822, Thomas Jefferson wrote a [...]
Coming to America: Washington's Swedish Immigrants
Over one million Swedes immigrated to America during the 19th and 20th centuries, escaping conscription, famine, and poverty. Washington, Connecticut became one of their new [...]
War Comes to the Mississippi Delta
War Comes to the Mississippi Delta was developed by the Museum of the Mississippi Delta to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Civil War as it [...]
Following the Tracks of the Underground Railroad in Warren County
The diverse population living in Warren County, Ohio in the decades leading up to the Civil War made the area a hot bed of political, [...]
Torn Within and Threatened Without: Kentuckians in the Civil War Era
In preparing for their Civil War sesquicentennial, the Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) board decided to move beyond simply commemorating the conflict. Instead, the organization wanted [...]
Watergate: Political Scandal & the Presidency
As the 40th anniversary of the Watergate scandal approached, staff at the North Carolina Museum of History realized that a comprehensive exhibit about Watergate and [...]
The Left Front: Radical Art in the "Red Decade," 1929-1940
In the wake of the stock market crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression, artists united with writers and other cultural producers to make [...]