Placing Family History in Context: A Personal Example & Ideas for Museums
There’s no missing Americans’ passionate interest in genealogy today. Aging baby boomers have greater free time for research and deepened appreciation for [...]
Storify from #AASLHchat on Incorporating Pop Culture into Tours and Programming
Last week, AASLH hosted our very first #AASLHchat on Twitter. Our guest hosts, the Educators and Interpreters Affinity Community, created a great [...]
Notes to Self or When to Stay Up Late at Conferences
AASLH conference time is almost here! Last year was such a great conference, and I even wrote a few notes to myself [...]
Vashon Island's Native People: Navigating Seas of Change
The exhibit Vashon Island’s Native People: Navigating Seas of Change, created by the all-volunteer Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Museum, provided insights [...]
The A-mazing Mendes Cohen
The exhibit concept for The A-mazing Mendes Cohen was to illuminate nineteenth-century history and the formation of Jewish-American identity through [...]
Welcome New AASLH Members (Oct. 2015)
AASLH is pleased to welcome all the individuals and institutions who became members in October. We are so glad you [...]
Interpretation at Catered Events
Catered events have become an increasingly important part of the business operations of many museums in recent years. In 2013, [...]
Not Your Average Book Club
This post comes to us from Kate Baldwin, Curator of Education at the Litchfield Historical Society in Litchfield, Conn. By using current technology we [...]
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Welcome to the Field: Thoughts for New Professionals
Lord Chesterfield (Philip Stanhope), wrote one of the first published advice guides. Starting in the 1730s, he wrote his "Letters to his Son on [...]
“We Gotta Do What????”
You have a new facility for your community museum’s collection. Well, it’s “new,” in a way. It’s an old house with some meaningful and teachable [...]
Advocacy Day: Museums as an Educational Resource
(L-R) Bob Beatty AASLH, Mark Ray TN Valley Railroad Museum, Senator Lamar Alexander, Senator Bob Corker, Jane-Coleman Harbison Brown University (originally from Nashville), Patricia [...]
An Easier Way To Manage Your Website
How do you manage your institution’s website? Can you make changes on your own, or do you need to contact your designer? How many people in your organization have the capability to make changes?