Cleveland in World War II
Cleveland in World War II is a collaborative work based on archival sources and contemporary interviews by journalist Brian Albrecht of the [...]
Mistakes Were Made
Note from blog editors: Sean Kelley and a panel presented a session at the 2016 AASLH Annual Meeting about the lies we [...]
Meet the Staff–Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens/Akron Public Schools Place-Based Education Curricula
From October 2014 to November 2015, 736 fifth grade students participated in “Meet the Staff,” an experiential learning curriculum created in partnership [...]
Former student discusses success in the fashion industry
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How do you best prepare for university?
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WWII Museum Announces Plan to Return Restored Patrol-Torpedo Boat to Home Waters
NEW ORLEANS – The National WWII Museum this week announced plans to return restored patrol-torpedo (PT) boat PT-305 to her home waters of Lake [...]
Pulitzer Prize Winner Annette Gordon-Reed Elected Trustee of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (March 4, 2016) – The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (AASLH members since 1989) board of trustees has elected Pulitzer [...]
Connecting to Educators – Back to Basics: Audience Input
Recently I was asked to lead a webinar on connecting with educators for Ohio History Connection's Creative Learning Factory. (They have a whole series of [...]
Mormon Missionary Diaries: An Untapped Source for State and Local History
In addition to an ongoing project to publish the papers of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, the Church History Department of The Church of [...]
The Historical Society of Michigan Receives Kellogg Grant
AASLH Member Since 1995 The Historical Society of Michigan (HSM) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant by the W.K. Kellogg [...]
We’re Looking for Good Writers! Do You Have a Book in You?
It's summer, we know you're busy always but we also know that our minds never stop in the history/museum world (have you seen this post [...]
Why our museum is an institutional member of AASLH
Although I worked around museums for the past 25 years, I had not worked in a museum until 2007 when I was hired as the [...]
Souvenirs: How Nomenclature 3.0 Helped Make Sense of My Personal Collection
Carving from Chichen Itza When I was a graduate student in museum studies, my class was assigned what should have been an easy [...]