Networking for Emerging History Professionals
Talking to other history professionals at the 2015 AASLH Annual Meeting Although museum/history professionals may not face the same problems [...]
5 Citizen History Projects You Should Know About (Part 1)
With the ubiquity of the internet, crowdsourcing help, resources, and artifacts has been an effective way for libraries, museums, institutes, and independent [...]
Same Skills, New Tech: Social Media Lessons from a 1967 AASLH Technical Leaflet
Image by Queens of Vintage At AASLH, we don't like to reinvent the wheel. We are constantly looking back through History News, [...]
“What’d I Miss?” Historians, Hamilton, and Fanfic
If you’re like me, your personal Facebook wall is pretty much exclusively re-posts of Hamilton-related news, videos (Did you see [...]
Is Your Organization Ready for MayDay?
Every year, cultural organizations take time on May 1st to assess their emergency preparedness. This MayDay, the American Association for [...]
Have a Great Book Idea? The AASLH Editorial Board Is Seeking Book Proposals
Every year, AASLH partners with Rowman & Littlefield Press to publish practical and relevant books for history professionals. These publications [...]
3 Takeaways from “Interpreting Slavery: Building a Theoretical Foundation”
The Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site (ULSG) in St. Louis, Missouri, preserves and interprets the lives of Ulysses S. [...]
Everybody Has to Eat Lunch, and Other Lessons on Stakeholder Engagement
I’ve written a couple of posts recently about a program at the Alexander Ramsey House in Saint Paul called History Happy Hour. History Happy Hour [...]
When Now Becomes Then
Last year, a local historical society asked me to narrate a video they planned to sell as a fundraiser. The society had digitized, edited and [...]
Invite Congress to Your #History Museum
We have the numbers from IMLS - over half of the active museums in America classify themselves as history organizations. Museums, historical societies, house museums, [...]
Oh, Those Pesky Primary Sources!
One of the conundrums staff faces at the Molly Brown House Museum in Denver, Colorado is surprisingly, a dearth of primary source material on Margaret [...]
Reaching the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Community Through Technology
The Sixth Floor Museum welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. We strive to make all of our guests feel welcome, and provide an [...]
I Remember When – Part 5
Integrating images into computerized catalog records? You’ve gotta be kidding! Well, that’s about what I thought when the when the idea was floated and demonstrated [...]