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AASLH Flash Sale: 50% Off All Recorded Webinars and PDFs of Technical Leaflets, Technical Leaflet Bundles
Today through next Tuesday (April 18) get 50% off the 77 recorded webinars, 30 Technical Leaflet PDFs, and 23 Technical Leaflet Bundle [...]
Ghost Tours: Marketing Hype or Spiritual Quest?
The 2016 Ghostbusters reboot begins with an actual ghost causing problems after a docent finishes a tour at a "haunted" historic [...]
Relevancy on the Prairie: Lawrence Welk’s Childhood Home
The Welk Homestead State Historic Site, located near Strasburg, ND. Photo by Diane Rogness . The Welk Homestead State Historic [...]
Expendable History? Saving Women’s Historic Sites from Demolition
As a women’s historian, I have always subscribed to the belief that women’s histories, stories, and contributions are everywhere; we [...]
Puppies, Students, & Trivia: 5 Ideas to Engage your Community
In our institutions, many of us are tasked with increasing programming and outreach of the museum. I find that when [...]
New Online Exhibit/Oral History Project at King County Archives: Public Health’s Response to AIDS in Seattle-King County,1982-1996
The King County Archives in Seattle, Washington (new members of AASLH) announces publication of its new online exhibit, Responding to [...]
AASLH Statement on CT Governor’s Elimination of $1.73 Million in Funding for CT Humanities
June 9, 2016 Connecticut Governor Danell Malloy has chosen to use his veto powers to eliminate funding for Connecticut Humanities in the [...]
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 [...]
5 Names for Museum Educators
A museum education specialist/interpreter/guide working with students While looking through the posts right here on AASLH, I ran across Do You Docent? by [...]