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Telling a Good Story Makes for a Better Tour
The guided tour... people either love them or hate them. A good guided tour can captivate an audience. A bad one can [...]
What is the Religious History Affinity Group doing in Detroit?
The 2016 Annual Meeting is just around the corner and many AASLH members will be taking in the sites, catching a baseball [...]
Nomenclature Query: Classifying a “Permanent Machine”
We received a query from Diane Kester at the Wayne County Historical Association & Museum in Goldsboro, North Carolina: What do you suggest for [...]
AASLH 2015 Attendees Suggest Session Topics for 2016
We sent all attendees of the 2015 Annual Meeting a survey to find out what we did right and what [...]
Power of Possibility: A Small Museums Scholarship Experience
By Shelly Drummond, Plant City Photo Archives and History Center, Plant City, FL As a grateful recipient of a Small [...]
The Words (and numbers) Still Matter
The Words (and numbers) Still Matter In the context of a conference on computerization of museum catalog records, more than [...]
2016 Call for Proposals
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) will present its 2016 annual meeting in Detroit, MI, from September [...]
Bringing in Other Disciplines to Your Historic Site
Recently I had the opportunity to meet with Toivo Motter, Director of Education at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens in Akron, Ohio. As with my [...]
Learning About Museum Classroom Placement
I don’t know how many conversations I’ve been involved with over the years with colleagues collectively lamenting the state of their museum classroom, out-of-date equipment, [...]
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 [...]