Wright in Glencoe
Glencoe, Illinois (population 8,723) is home to the world’s third largest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright-designed structures: seven houses, a concrete bridge [...]
New Year Update from the History Relevance Campaign
For the past four years, History Relevance has been creating united voice in the history field. Our ultimate goal is that people [...]
Missouri History Museum Breaks Attendance Records Thanks to New Approach
Crowds wait in line to see Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis at the Missouri History Museum during the last [...]
Shaker Museum in New Lebanon, NY Names Lacy Schutz as New Executive Director
(January 4, 2016) The Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon’s Board of Trustees is pleased to announce the appointment of Lacy [...]
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On Epiphany, an Epiphany about Museums as Safe Places to Encounter Otherness
Happy Epiphany! As we begin the new year, I'm drawn to reflect on the long-lasting impact of “encountering otherness” on a [...]
Start 2016 on the Right Foot: Endorse & Share the Value of History Statement
The first few days of the year are a time for reflection and re-focusing our attention on the big picture and long [...]
What is “Change” at Your Historic Site?
AASLH’s Historic House Committee is hosting a webinar, Talking About Change at Historic Sites on March 27 from 2-3 pm Eastern. The focus of this [...]
Renew and Refresh
Sometimes two days away from your normal routine can help generate fresh ideas and reinvigorate the mind. If those two days are spent with history [...]
AASLH Announces Small Museums Scholarship
Small Museums Scholarship Application 2014 AASLH Annual Meeting and Online Conference St. Paul, Minnesota DEADLINE: 13 June 2014 About the scholarship: Now in its eighth [...]
Adding a Generic Term to Your PastPerfect 5 Database
PastPerfect 5 users that have converted from Revised Nomenclature to Nomenclature 3.0 have likely noticed that Nomenclature 3.0 does not include certain generic terms like [...]
The Visitor’s Eye
One of the many duties and pleasures of a historian is to create timelines of things. At Intel Corporation, a maker of microprocessors, or chips [...]
University Museum Studies Programs and Small Museums, a Win-Win Collaboration
I’ve been the Director of the C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa, a small museum in Memphis, Tennessee, for the past six years. As a faculty member at [...]