Managing Volunteers: Lessons Learned Through Experience
A volunteer talking to visitors at the Cincinnati Museum Center. We all know most non-profits run on volunteers. Working at [...]
Save the NEH! Call Your Members of Congress on March 14 for Humanities Advocacy Day
March 14 is Humanities Advocacy Day! A record-breaking number of humanities advocates are in Washington D.C. today, March 13th, meeting with hundreds [...]
The Path to Cultural Sensitivity? Inclusion and Co-Curation
Exhibition planning meeting in Los Angeles, for Go For Broke National Education Center. Interpretation has come a long way. In [...]
New Nixon Library and Museum to Open Oct. 14
YORBA LINDA, Calif., June 2, 2016—A completely new interactive presidential museum is opening at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library on [...]
Improving History Work: Collaboration Continues to Matter
Before there was an American Association for State and Local History, many historians – trained and avocational–put a lot of [...]
Marshall Foundation Releases Final Volume of The Papers of George Catlett Marshall
The George C. Marshall Foundation, Lexington, Virginia, member of AASLH since 2008, announces the release of volume seven of The [...]
Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Changes Name to International Preservation Studies Center
As of June 1, 2016, the Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies has officially been renamed the International Preservation Studies [...]
Our Fifth AmeriCorps Team at the C.H. Nash Museum!
The C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa is currently hosting the River Two AmeriCorps NCCC Team – our fifth team in the past 3 years. Over [...]
Alt-rock and Historic Sites in Georgia
Georgia is home to many interesting things: Gone with the Wind, the world's largest peanut statue, a reconstruction of the White House, and, of course [...]
They Took Them to a Museum: A Reflection on Sites of Conscience
Sometimes our professional and personal lives collide in extraordinary ways. I was at a service at my church where a friend who works for Operation [...]
Open Call for Life-Changing Stories from Your Visitors
Search for the 2015 Great American Museum Advocate; An Open Call for Life-Changing Stories from Your Visitors The American Alliance of Museums wants to know [...]
Helpful Tips for Finding and Choosing Lexicon Terms in Past Perfect 5.0
Picking the right Nomenclature term from Past Perfect can be a challenge if you’re unsure of where to look, especially when you aren’t quite sure [...]
The Value of Small House Museums
I just read an article about a controversy questioning the need to keep house museums open. That may not be exactly how the article phrased it, but the words used seemed [...]