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What You Can Learn from 7 Theme Fusion Success Stories
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What You Can Do on Summer Vacation
Did you ever have to write the typical “What I Did on Summer Vacation” essay on the first day of school? It [...]
Master Local Historian: AASLH Launches Historian Training Program for the Public
A photograph of the Tennessee State Library and Archives building taken on July 17, 1956, a few short years after it [...]
To Do Rightly: Congregations as Incubators of American Activism
Photo by Victor Manuel Ramos. Courtesy of Arch Street Meeting House. Last year, the Arch Street Friends Meeting House in [...]
Seven Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in July
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program [...]
PokéWHAT?! National Trust for Historic Preservation Staff Provide a Pokémon Go Primer
As the Pokémon Go craze was taking hold of communities and blowing up in the press last week, Small Museum [...]
Pittock Mansion Historic House Museum Sees Record-Breaking Attendance of 100,000 + Annual Visitors
“At a time when many historic house museums across the country are experiencing declining visitation, Portland, Oregon's Pittock Mansion has [...]
2016 AASLH Online Conference Open for Registration
Can’t make it to Detroit but still want to participate in the AASLH Annual Meeting? Join us at the Online Conference [...]
The Moton School Story: Children of Courage
The Robert Russa Moton Museum breaks new ground with the exhibit The Moton School Story: Children of Courage. This exhibit seeks to expand the ethnic [...]
Together We Can Listen – Incorporating Evaluation Pt. 3
To build your own network for increasing evaluation capacity at your historic house museum, the Denver Evaluator’s Network recommends that it is best to start [...]
How can you assign a price to a docent program?
“Sorry Dorothy… but here’s your pink slip. You’ve been useful for the last 38 years but your volunteer services are no longer needed.” Okay, so [...]
Session Proposal: Received
For weeks you worked via email and phone conversations to develop the best conference session proposal you could. You successfully got it submitted just before [...]
AASLH Program Committee – A Newbie’s Perspective
On January 17, I started my day with a group of people—most of whom I have never met—to decide which proposals out of 126 would [...]
Together We Can Listen – Incorporating Evaluation Pt. 2
Building the capacity for evaluation at a historic house museum can be a daunting task but has long-term, positive impact on programming and visitation. As [...]