StEPs Spotlight: The New London Public Museum is Planning for the Future
Exciting changes are happening at the 800+ organizations taking part in AASLH's StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations). Our "StEPs Spotlight" [...]
#AASLH2017 Session Proposals Due Dec 9
The deadline to submit a proposal for the 2017 AASLH Annual Meeting is December 9. For specific instructions, see the Call for Proposals. [...]
How Exhibitions Develop Collections
It all began with a small ski slope on Long Island. Yes, there was some skiing on Long Island, New York and [...]
Community Based Learning Program
Staff members at the State Historical Museum of Iowa collaborated with two exceptional Des Moines Public Schools teachers, Josalynn Agnew [...]
Riding Through History
Riding Through History is a 3,000 square foot exhibit on the history of recreational bicycling in Iowa. The exhibit showcases [...]
Abercorn Archaeology: African American History in the Shadow of the Oak
Proposed plans to widen a state road and construct new interchanges near Savannah in Chatham County, Georgia led to the [...]
Classifying and Naming Digital Objects with Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature 4.0 can be used to catalog digital objects. It allows museums to record information about the format (e.g., “Document, Digital”) [...]
STEM, You Say?
“Bah,” you are thinking. “Do I really need to integrate science and MATH into our education offerings? This is not what I signed up for….” [...]
Adding Branches to Our Family Tree
As the corporate history museum for American Airlines, the CR Smith Museum holds a significant collection of artifacts and archives that help us interpret the [...]
Reflecting on the AASLH Conference Inspiration for Small Historic Sites
Thanks to a Small Museums scholarship, I attended the AASLH annual conference in Birmingham, Alabama. While there, I learned new and valuable ideas about operating [...]
Hindu Temples in the United States
Hanuman Mandir, Alpharetta, Georgia Hindu temples have marked sacred spaces for millennia in India. However, recent research documents over 200 of these structures [...]
New-York Historical Society to Present a Diverse Range of Exhibitions Spring 2014
AASLH Member Since 2002 Exhibitions will highlight iconic NYC photos by Bill Cunningham, Forgotten Sports History, Original Audubon Watercolors, and Civil War-Era Quilts NEW YORK, [...]
Marketing Historical Thinking Skills to our Colleagues
Recently I attended the American Alliance of Museums conference in charming Baltimore, Maryland. At one of the un-conference sessions and over the twitter feed (#aam2013) [...]