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Visitors and Originality in Historic House Museums: A Look at the Impact of Furnishing Plans
Library: Longfellow’s House – Washington Headquarters National Historic Site; By Daderot (Own work) [CC0] “Is everything original?” “Is this what [...]
AASLH Welcomes First 30 Academic Program Members
In April 2016, AASLH launched a brand new membership type for Academic Programs. Designed specifically to meet the needs of faculty and [...]
Reconsideration of Memorials and Monuments
This article will be published in the upcoming Fall 2016 issue of History News, the official magazine of AASLH. To receive this issue [...]
Trying New Ways to Reach Classrooms
Every summer we organize social studies based professional development opportunities for teachers. These events are always very well attended, and [...]
Advocacy Alert: Urge Congress to Restore K-12 History & Civics Education
Members of the Historical Community, AASLH and the National Coalition for History rarely raise legislative alerts like this one. But [...]
The Last Homestead
The Last Homestead tells the story of Linda and Harold “Mac” McKinstry, a young couple who homesteaded at the mouth of Pacific [...]
“What I’m Looking for in a Museum Visit”: The Seasoned Museum-Goer
Sometimes, people who start out as our visitors become something more: volunteers, collaborators, contractors, the list goes on and on. [...]
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 [...]
Black Hills Mining Museum Donates W.E. Adams Records to Deadwood History
DEADWOOD – The board of directors of the Black Hills Mining Museum recently donated a collection of archival records to Deadwood History’s Adams Museum. The [...]
Who Does “It”?
Directors do it. Educators do it too. So do curators and marketing folks. What is “it” you ask? “It” is pondering and questioning what visitors [...]
Managing the Hands-On Collection
We all know that hands-on learning opportunities are engaging, and result in meaningful visitor experiences. Visitors enjoy experiencing “the real thing,” and putting it into [...]
The Way We Word: Introducing a Blog for Users of Nomenclature 3.0 for Museum Cataloging
AASLH and the Nomenclature 3.0 Task Force are pleased to introduce this blog for users of Nomenclature 3.0 for Museum Cataloging. Nomenclature 3.0 is a hierarchically [...]