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Will the High Tide of a National Designation Raise All Women’s History Boats?
Will the high tide of a national designation raise all women’s history boats? Just over one year ago, the former Sewall-Belmont House [...]
Three Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in April
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in April! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations (StEPs) is AASLH’s self-study standards program [...]
What Public Historians Can Learn from Fourth Graders
Ranger Nick Sacco with a group of Fourth Graders at Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site. All photo credits go to [...]
Community Members as Co-Creators at the Detroit Institute of Arts
It’s really exciting to have this opportunity to share how the Detroit Institute of Arts is re-thinking its interpretive practice, [...]
How the New London Public Museum Used the StEPs Program to Achieve National Standards
Charles Carr, a local newspaperman and citizen scientist, founded the New London Public Museum in New London, Wisconsin in 1917. [...]
AASLH Welcomes Two Summer Interns
Makiki Reuvers is the summer Archives Assistant here at AASLH. Her primary project during this internship is to process and [...]
Whiskey, Slavery, and Efforts to Make Corporate Histories More Diverse
For many corporate museums and archives, it is tough to change the historic narrative of the company. Marketing is involved, [...]
Regional Terminology
Soda, pop, or coke? Shopping cart or buggy? At one point or another, we have all come across regional language differences. I grew up in [...]
Today is Giving Tuesday. Will you give to AASLH?
We have a day for giving thanks. We have two for getting deals. Now, we have #GivingTuesday, a global day dedicated to giving back. Today, [...]
What happened to the Junior Membership program?
I was recently pouring through old minutes from the Detroit Historical Society to write a blog for AASLH’s 75th anniversary next year. As can be [...]
Historic Buildings and Landscapes as Museum Collections
With a portfolio of 27 historic sites across the country, from Philip Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan Connecticut, to the Cooper-Molera Adobe in Monterey, [...]
Add a Term to PastPerfect 5
If you have experience cataloging museum collections in PastPerfect 5, then it is likely that at some point you've needed to use an object name [...]
StEPs Groups: More Than “Misery Loves Company”
Organizations enrolled in StEPs are finding they make much more progress when they work on the program within a group setting. And the reason for their [...]