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History, Memory, and Disability Rights: Creating Inclusive Public Humanities Programs
“History, Memory, and Disability Rights: Creating Inclusive Public Humanities Programs,” a one-day public humanities conference and workshops that features current research on [...]
Presidential Medal Given to Students Opposed to Slavery Program at President Lincoln’s Cottage
Students Opposing Slavery (SOS), a youth education program of President Lincoln’s Cottage, was awarded the Presidential Award of Extraordinary Efforts to Combat [...]
Recap of Women’s History at the 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting
Van Hoosen Farm, September 2016 visit. Photo by Susan Ferentinos. Our women’s history offerings at the joint meeting of the [...]
Visitor Studies Association: Call for Session Proposals Now Open
The Visitor Studies Association's annual conference will be held in Boston July 19-23, 2016! The Data Revolution theme will challenge [...]
Historic Madison Raises Matching Funds and Qualifies for Jeffris Foundation Challenge Grant
November 10, 2015, MADISON, IN - Historic Madison, Inc. announces a significant milestone in its $2.5 million Capital Campaign to [...]
Embracing Audience Engagement: A Small Museums Scholarship Recipient’s Experience
By Claire Blaylock, Clackamas County Historical Society, Oregon City, OR This past September, thanks to the Small Museums Scholarship, I [...]
New-York Historical Society’s Center for the Study of Women’s History is First of Its Kind for a U.S. Museum
Collection of Tiffany Lamps to be Displayed in a Dazzling Glass Gallery Center for the Study of Women’s History is [...]
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?
AASLH Advocacy Alert
National Endowment for the Humanities slated to be cut by approximately $60 million over the next ten years. AASLH is a proud member of National [...]
Pre-K Tours in History Museums: “And You Thought It Was All About You!”
This post is from Debbie Bartels, Education Aide at the Smithsonian Institution's National Postal Museum, in Washington, DC. The pre-K learner can be a self-centered [...]
Kiosks Should Add, Not Distract
We wanted to incorporate each kiosk into an exhibition so that it heightened mood while focusing on the content.
Turning Your “Aarrgghh!” into “Ahhhhhh….”
Some may regard maintenance and renovation work - with all of its noise, dust and intrusion - as a necessary evil. It just “seems” to [...]