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Digital History Company Plans to Create Interactive Digital Version of the Library from American Philosophy: A Love Story
One of the year’s best books is a beautifully written story about books – specifically, a lost collection of priceless tomes with [...]
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 [...]
History Unfolded: US Holocaust Memorial Museum Launches Citizen History Project
How much did Americans know about the Holocaust when it was happening? How did they respond? The United States Holocaust Memorial [...]
Meet a Member: Sewall-Belmont House & Museum
We are excited to launch a new biweekly blog series called “Meet a Member.” AASLH has 5,500 fascinating members working [...]
Jan 15 is Deadline for Enrollment in Next Wave of Visitors Count! Research
Visitors Count! is now accepting enrollments for the next wave of research. The deadline is January 15, 2016. Visitors Count! [...]
History Wins! Obama Signs ESSA: This Means New Funding for K-12 History & Civics
Yesterday morning, December 10, President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) into law. Thank you to all the [...]
Using Nomenclature – Adding Specialist Terms
Photo courtesy Kili / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain Nomenclature covers a wide range of terminology, but it does not include all [...]
Impact of One Time Field Trips on Student Learning
The Crystal Bridges Art Museum and the University of Arkansas recently worked together to evaluate the impact of one time field trips on students. You [...]
Bring Out Your Dead
With the coming of the New Year I have been reflecting a lot on…death...that’s right – death. In historic houses we will relate WHEN and [...]
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 [...]