A Pivotal Moment in Our History: A Century of Women’s Rights Work and the 2016 Election
Hillary Clinton receives the Alice Award in 2009. Photograph by Doug DeMark. “I want young girls and boys to come [...]
Recruiting Your Superiors: Thoughts on Advancing in the Field
Earlier this week, I participated in the #AASLHchat on “Issues Facing Emerging Professionals”. Contributors shared so many good ideas, and you can [...]
Ask FSA: Reading Insignia on Military Uniforms
Identification of the military decorations John Glenn earned as a Marine Corps pilot and astronaut, 1943-1965. Photo courtesy of author. [...]
Andrew Jackson: Born for a Storm
Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage unveiled its newest exhibition, Andrew Jackson: Born for a Storm on January 8, 2015. This exhibition, timed [...]
Woodrow Wilson Family Home: A Museum of Reconstruction in Columbia & Richland County
In 2005, Historic Columbia closed the Woodrow Wilson Family Home historic site due to extensive structural issues. $3.1 million in [...]
The Lost Museum
Public Humanities graduate students at Brown University re-imagined and resurrected the Jenks Museum, a natural history collection that existed on [...]
Dressing the Bed: A Living Demonstration of 18th Century Needlework
The Betsy Ross House is unique among peer museums nationally in its interpretation of the life of a working-class, eighteenth-century [...]
Fakelore, Story Creep, and Other Crimes Against History
By George L. Vogt AASLH Member since 1994 Executive Director, Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR On a tour of Kyoto, we noticed an odd phenomenon. [...]
Judah Ring at Union Pacific
A treasured artifact from the Union Pacific Historical Collection has recently come to light after being in the Washington D.C. office for more than a [...]
The New-York Historical Society’s “Talk to Us” Phone Booth
In the fall of 2005, the New-York Historical Society opened the exhibition Slavery in New York. The exhibition was extremely popular, partly because many visitors [...]
The Benefits of Collaboration
The National Steinbeck Center, like many small museums in non-urban communities, often acts as a museum, a cultural center, a conference room, and a community [...]
The Great Man Tour is Alive and Well (Unfortunately)
Like many of you, I curate a historic site that was founded to promote and promulgate the legacy and letters of a famous dead white [...]
Why Hire an Interim CEO
Generally speaking, CEO positions are vacant for one or more of the following reasons: CEO with long tenure (10 years and over) dies, retires, or [...]