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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 [...]
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 [...]
Approaching Evaluation
My go-to book on evaluation By Tobi Voigt, Detroit Historical Society If I have learned anything as a museum educator, it’s that those [...]
“… or a building full of old stuff” – Part IV
The school tours are the biggest yearly program for the museum. The museum director pushed the idea, but that's no surprise; he was a teacher [...]
Outreach Profile: National History Day
As schools grapple with limited field trip budgets, museums are looking for new ways to engage with K-12 audiences. “Outreach” is the new buzzword. If [...]
StEPs to Deaccessioning Education
We’ve all been there…that moment when you find something truly strange hidden away for years in your museum’s collection. Maybe the object doesn't fit within [...]
Selecting Sessions at the Annual Meeting
If you're an AASLH member, perhaps you've already received the preliminary program for the 2012 Annual Meeting, to be held in Salt Lake City. There [...]
Approaching Docent Training
This summer we are completely overhauling our brick-and-mortar historical museum. When we reopen after Thanksgiving we will have three new and three dramatically reimagined permanent [...]