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Can I Call It A Coozy? Classifying the Iconic Beverage Holder in Collections
Shortly after Nomenclature 4.0 was released, a colleague of mine John Neill, Riley County Historical Museum contacted me through social media asking, “Not sure [...]
Center for Home Movies Searching for Public Holdings of Amateur Films
The Center for Home Movies is undertaking, thanks to support from the Library of Congress and CLIR, a survey of home movies and [...]
Museums Working with Communities: The Book
I am pleased to announce that my colleague Beth Bollwerk and I have a new book that will be available in the [...]
SubUrbanisms: Casino Company Town/ China Town
SubUrbanisms documents the development of a suburban Chinatown surrounding the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut and how workers, many recent [...]
Castle on the Cove: the Connecticut State Prison and Wethersfield
Castle on the Cove explores the Connecticut State Prison while it operated in Wethersfield between 1827 and 1963 and its [...]
RACE Project at History Colorado
On September 20, 2014, the History Colorado Center brought the traveling exhibit RACE: Are We So Different? to Denver for [...]
Voices of Wartime: Telluride During World War II
Voices of Wartime explored how a global conflict affected the everyday lives of those living in the small, isolated mining [...]
Building Kiosks from Tablets on a Shoe-String Budget
Developing kiosks for under $600 revolutionized our visitor's museum experience.
Don’t You Love it When Field Trips Go Well?
A costumed ranger at Francis Gate (courtesy Lowell National Historical Park) Field trips have long served as the bread-and-butter of most education programs [...]
National History Day is Tailor-Made for Small Museums
Students are encouraged to select local-history topics. Why? Resources are available to them. Where? Your small museum, library, or archival institution. While the students develop an affinity for your institution, they also build a relationship with the community at large.
Digital Library of America Pilot to Launch
By National Archives AASLH Institutional Members since 1987 Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero announced on March 12 that the National Archives, as [...]
What Do You Really Know About Museum Accessibility?
You can be creative and resourceful in making low-cost alternatives to high-cost ‘best practices.’
Learning about and Learning from YouTube
Over 4 billion hours of video are watched every month on YouTube. Over 4 billion hours….a month! Clearly, video is compelling to a lot of [...]