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Baby Boom II: Motherhood and Museums One Year Later
To my astonishment, Baby Boom: Motherhood and Museums has consistently been one of the most popular AASLH blog posts since it was [...]
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 [...]
Increasing Accessibility for Visitors Who Are Visually Impaired: Simple Solutions for Small Museums
The 25thanniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has provided museums and museum associations the opportunity to review and [...]
Greetings from Detroit: A Message from the 2016 AASLH Annual Meeting Host Committee
In the waning days of the year 1900, Detroit mayor William C. Maybury had an idea. He wanted to create [...]
Re-Imagining the Historic House Museum: A Workplace for Women
In recent years, discussions about the future of the historic house museum have ebbed and flowed. A watershed moment may [...]
March StEPs Certificates
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program [...]
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 [...]
Connecting to Educators – Back to Basics: Research
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 [...]
A History of XYZ in ### Objects
In April, Slate’s culture blog Brow Beat showed how the meme started by Neil MacGregor’s excellent book A History of the World in 100 Objects [...]
Preserving the Religious History of Southern Idaho
Jefferson County Historical Society in Rigby, Idaho Earlier this month I visited numerous historical societies and museums in the small towns of south-eastern [...]
Engaging the Public: Seven Rules
Steven Lubar, Director of Brown University's Public Humanities Program has recently posted "Seven Rules for Public Humanists." Without losing meaning, one could easily swap the words "Public Humanists" [...]
Where are All the School Groups Part 2 — Teachers
As mentioned in the last installment of this View from the Porch, teachers are the nut we need to crack in order to gain field [...]