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We’re Moving! AASLH Office Closed October 11-14
Our new office building! We’re Moving! From the afternoon of October 11 through the morning of the 14th, the AASLH [...]
Magical Awards Banquet: A Small Museums Scholarship Experience
Elizabeth Marston, Director of the Elgin History Museum (Elgin, IL), was awarded a scholarship to attend the 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting. You can learn [...]
Recap: Corporate History at the 2016 AASLH Annual Meeting
Thank you to all those that attended our Corporate History tour, session, and luncheon. It turned out to be a great crowd! [...]
Interpretation at Catered Events
Catered events have become an increasingly important part of the business operations of many museums in recent years. In 2013, [...]
5 Ways to Get a Woman Out of the Kitchen
When I first came to the Doak House Museum in Greeneville, Tennessee, one of my first tasks was to learn the tour [...]
Footsteps to Freedom
The Lombard Historical Society’s Footsteps to Freedom exhibit explores the history of the Underground Railroad by focusing on the work [...]
Days of Grace: California Artist Grace Hudson in Hawaii
This comprehensive and visually-stunning catalog accompanied an exhibit of the same name on display at the Grace Hudson Museum in [...]
The Emotional Foundation of a Membership
At the top of your spinal column, there is a walnut-sized region of the brain called the amygdala, which is commonly called the “old brain” [...]
Context for History Is Not Comfortable
Prior to agreeing to reprint my "History Is Not Comfortable" article here on SMOC, I asked if I could also write a post that gave [...]
History Is Not Comfortable
What's It Like To Be Transgendered in Morrison County, MN? Exhibit by Morrison County Historical Society, 2012. What started as a blog post [...]
Education Department Organizational Charts
Our colleague Sheri Levinsky Raskin (Board Member - President at New York City Museum Educators Roundtable) has sent the query below and I thought the [...]
Site Rentals: The Challenging Intersection of Mission and Money
Robert H. Smith Visitor Education Center, President Lincoln's Cottage Contributed by Sahand Miraminy, Events and Programs Coordinator at President Lincoln's Cottage Museums and [...]
An Intern’s Experience
I wanted to share one of our intern's experience with the community. After writing his history of the Peloponnesian War, the ancient Greek historian Thucydides [...]