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Project 2-3-1: Two Boxcars, Three Blocks, One City: A Story of Elgin’s African-American Heritage
Project 2-3-1: Two Boxcars, Three Blocks, One City: A Story of Elgin’s African-American Heritage is a documentary film and traveling exhibit created [...]
2015 Students Opposing Slavery International Summit
President Lincoln’s Cottage (PLC) opened in 2008 as a historic site and museum in northwest Washington, D.C. While in residence, Lincoln opened [...]
Finding Ways to Channel a Passion for History and Museums after Leaving the Field
In 2012, I made a difficult but necessary decision. After six years of undergrad and graduate school followed by an arduous seven [...]
Motoring Through Edgewater
Motoring Through Edgewater explores how the automobile transformed the Edgewater community and the nation between 1900-1930 through photos, maps, documents, [...]
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 [...]
Museums to the Rescue
Collaborating with schools is a great way to offset the damage done by educational budget cuts. Schools are always looking for ways to supplement the [...]
30% Off Encyclopedia of Local History for December 2013
AASLH Members save 30% off this AltaMira/Rowman Littlefield title. Edited by Carol Kammen and Amy H. Wilson, this second edition of Encyclopedia of Local History [...]
Is it a Frisbee? Issues in Cross-Indexing Advertising Media
A few years ago, I gave an intern a routine assignment to take inventory of our collections. Within 15 minutes, the intern returned with a box [...]
Highlights and Lessons from the Annual Meeting
Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church Here’s my list of highlights and lessons from the Annual Meeting in Birmingham: Network! The sessions, offsite excursions, and [...]
My First AASLH Conference, But Not My Last!
Last year I became our site’s first full-time historic house manager. I’ve been a member of AASLH for several years and with Birmingham so close, [...]
Preserving Religious Spaces
On Wednesday, November 20, the AASLH Religious History Affinity Group committee met with David Rose, Programs & Communications Associate with Partners for Sacred Places in [...]