Cemetery Preservation & Interpretation: A Resource Collection
Here is a collection of all AASLH resources on preserving and interpreting historic cemeteries. For more resources on a wide range of subjects, [...]
Gotta Catch ‘Em All: The Battle over Pokémon Go in Museums
Given the positive and negative stigma surrounding Pokémon Go I decided to write a follow-up to my original blog, “Engaging New Museum [...]
Free Digital Preservation Workshop in Atlanta- Oct 10
On Monday, October 10, 2016, the Digital POWRR Team will be conducting a FREE workshop at the Atlanta History Center in Atlanta, [...]
Welcome New AASLH Members (Sept. 2015)
AASLH is pleased to welcome all the individuals and institutions who became members in September. We are so glad you [...]
How Charleston’s Past was Secured for the Future
2015 marks AASLH's 75th Anniversary Year. For the occasion, AASLH has created a blog series for members to share their [...]
AASLH Aspirations
To shape AASLH’s future, the Council and its Aspirations Task Force have outlined four key ideas. We are interested in [...]
Visitor Feedback Stations
Revisiting some great readings from earlier this year, I came across a nice post from colleague Linda Norris on her [...]
State Museum Association Conferences – For Connections and Conversations, Too!
Museum associations offer all sorts of services – training, newsletters, advocacy, salary surveys, preservation supplies discounts, technical assistance, site visits, and more – but the most important service they offer is access to your nearby peers.
A Parent By Any Other Name…Part 2
As Paul noted in Part 1 of this blog, every opportunity in an academic museum comes with a trade-off. I, too, initially basked in the [...]
“Rethinking the Rembrandt Rule” Meets the Real World
In his 2007 piece Rethinking the Rembrandt Rule, Jim Vaughan put forward the radical idea that this “rule” might not actually make a lot of [...]
AASLH and AAM Sign Statement of Collaboration
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: October 30, 2012 Contact: Cherie Cook, [email protected] Associations Will Work Together to Raise Awareness of National Standards (Nashville, TN) - At [...]
To Tweet or Not To Tweet
With many social media sites available it is likely that if you are not already tweeting, facebooking or blogging you will be in the near [...]
Teach the Past and Eat it Too
Colonial Williamsburg interpreters roast a pig. Virginia Gazette photo. Food is one of the defining issues of our times. It's also one of [...]