Hear, Here: Voices of Downtown La Crosse
Hear, Here: Voices of Downtown La Crosse is a location-based mobile phone documentary project about downtown La Crosse that uses street-level signs to [...]
A Walk in 1875 St. Louis
It all started with a map. Pictorial St. Louis, a perspective map that showed every street, building, park, and even outhouse in [...]
Peb Yog Hmoob—We Are Hmong Minnesota
In 1975, the Hmong—a distinct ethnic group with origins in China, who by the twentieth century were concentrated in northern Laos—began migrating [...]
President Lincoln’s Cottage Gains 501(c)(3) Status, Will Continue Working Closely with NTHP
Since opening its doors to the public for the first time in 2008, President Lincoln’s Cottage (AASLH member since 2011) [...]
Historical Society of Washington, DC and HistoryIT Release New Digital Archive Portal for DC History
Earlier this month, the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. and history technology and consulting firm HistoryIT (AASLH members since 1995 and 2013, respectively) [...]
Meet a Member: Hope Shannon
Meet a Member is a biweekly blog series spotlighting our members. AASLH has 5,500 fascinating members working hard for the field [...]
Nomenclature 4.0: New Terms for Mobile Devices
Today’s world is increasingly inundated with new models of mobile devices. This increase of various technological devices prompted the Nomenclature [...]
Scrapbooks, Albums, and other Mixed Content Memorabilia
From the Smoky Hill Museum Collections, Salina, Kansas I recently spotted a book at my local library, The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt by [...]
What a Volunteer Needs
I never really thought about becoming a volunteer, it just did not seem like something that I would ever have time for. The few times [...]
Turn a Snowball Fight into Museum Members
I came across this posting on AASLH Award Winner Gore Place’s Facebook wall the other day and thought, what a perfect way to engage people [...]
Small Museums Come Together
Working and volunteering for a small museum can be tough. You wear many hats. There are always five different projects (or disasters) demanding your attention. [...]
Making the most out of work in progress
Making The Most Out Of Work In Progress When you work at a historic house museum, there is almost always a [...]
But it’s a Urinal! Naming art objects that might not look like art
Naming artwork can be challenging and many of the questions I get from users of Nomenclature 3.0 pertain to objects that serve the function of [...]