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Six Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in August
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program designed specifically [...]
28 AASLH Members Receive Over $9 Million in NEH Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $79 million in grants for 290 humanities projects and programs [...]
Ten Fundraising To-do’s for Small Museums & Nonprofits
By Jamie Simek Does fundraising leave you at a loss? Have you read fundraising guides and wondered how to translate them into [...]
2015 AASLH Re-Cap: Criteria for Assessing Program Ideas
At the 2015 AASLH Annual Meeting, the Educators and Interpreters Committee hosted a session about large-scale events. We talked about [...]
Women’s History Was Everywhere at AASLH2015
From learning about Maggie Bailey, Kentucky bootlegger, to visiting the Old Armory Building where Ida B. Wells spoke to the [...]
2015 Actions of the Council
On the opening day of the 2015 Annual Meeting in Louisville, the AASLH Council met to discuss the organization's membership, finances, [...]
AASLH Statement on the Closure of the Illinois State Museum System
October 2 In a budgetary battle with the Illinois state legislature, Governor Bruce Rauner has closed the Illinois State Museum [...]
A Recipe for Success
Full disclosure: Outgoing SMC chair, Stacy Klingler, asked me to create this recipe for next week's Small Museums Luncheon in Salt Lake City. "Oh, Stacy," [...]
AASLH Annual Meeting (#AASLH2012) in Salt Lake City
Hello, Everyone! This week we are joined by Jamie Glavic (@museumminute). Jamie is the Stragtegic Projects Coordinator at the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus, Ohio. She will [...]
Attracting Latino Audiences: What Are You Doing?
The Latino population in the United States is growing at a rapid pace, but according to an AAM survey, only 9% of museum-goers fits this [...]
School Group Tour Logistics
Another school year is upon us... So, this week we will be taking a look at school group tour logistics. Do you have a plan [...]
Small Museums, Big Impact!
At AASLH’s 2010 Annual Meeting in Oklahoma City, Small Museums Committee (SMC) members showed how small museums and their communities, despite their relatively smaller sizes, [...]
Commemoration in the Postmodern Age
Hello Everyone, I am very excited to be leading the blogging sessions for this month. I have asked a number of colleagues from around the field to contribute [...]