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Women Who Mentor: Mindy Porter, Director of Education, Scott Family Amazeum
The Scott Family Amazeum. One of the founding objectives of the Women’s History Affinity Group at AASLH is to “[foster] [...]
4 Ways History Organizations Can Engage Local Voices
Alabama Voices –Alabama Department of Archives and History (Montgomery, AL) Every year, AASLH receives around 100 nominations for our Leadership in History [...]
Saving Hallowed Ground’s WWI Memorial Tree Program and Sharing Local History
Planting a memorial tree in Radnor, PA. On August 29, 1914, just months after the outbreak of what would come [...]
So Many Terms in So Many Fields: Where to put your terms in PastPerfect 5
If you are using PastPerfect 5 to catalog your museum collections, you might be a little intimidated by all of [...]
To All the Job Seekers Out There…A Little Advice
To All the Job Seekers Out There I know there is a lot of advice on the World Wide Web [...]
Is Religious History Relevant?
The prominence of religion in the history of our country is undeniable. Many of the first North American settlers brought [...]
Pond-Hopping: How Working Abroad Can Improve Your Local History Practice
Would you like to travel the world? Not for one or two weeks, but for a year, or possibly two. [...]
Are Unpaid Interns Legal?
As mostly nonprofit history organizations, a lot of AASLH members rely on unpaid interns to help at their sites throughout the year. We have all [...]
The Birth of an Exhibit
People just keep asking about Elmer, Elmer being Elmer McCurdy, an outlaw turned sideshow mummy. In March, producers from the T.V. show Mysteries at the [...]
Would You Buy a Bus?
I happened to see this article from 89.3 KPCC - Southern California Public Radio pop up in my Facebook feed last week and I can’t [...]
Meal Toys, Merchandising and Beyond!
A couple of times of year, I help my children sift through toys. Generally, we separate these objects into three piles: keep, donate and trash. [...]
Mark the Mammoth: A Small Museum Makes its Mark on the Twitterverse
The arrival of the internet has certainly changed many things, including how we think about marketing our museums. For at least a decade, a museum webpage has [...]
Know a Museum or Site Making an Impact with History?
At the AASLH annual meeting in St. Paul, the History Relevance Campaign presented an update on their work to a packed audience. During the session, [...]