We Can Do It—Collaboratively!
Collaboration is key, but not always easy. How can large urban museums and small local presenters work together to grow collaborative networ...
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Overcoming Barriers to Improved Collections Care
Every institution, especially smaller ones, faces barriers to collections care and collections management. Lack of funding, small staffs, an...
We Cannot Afford To Wait: Saving Public School History, Material Culture, and Stories
Join museum practitioners, preservationists, scholars, and a conceptual artist for a conversation about rapid response versus strategic coll...
Waiting For People And Money: Strategies for Building Support for House Museums
When house museums want to leap forward, wishful thinking isn’t enough. They need sufficient capacity and support to achieve their vision. W...
Afrocentric History Museums: Shall We Start an Afrocentric Museum Resistance Movement?
History museums in the U.S. and beyond still interpret predominantly white histories. This session presents museums in United States, Canada...
All The Cool Kids Are Doing It: Local History as Community Engagement
How can using Smithsonian resources bolster community engagement? The panel will discuss how hosting a Museum on Main Street exhibition spur...
Keynote Address: Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Keynote Address: Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar by AASLH
Leadership In History Awards Ceremony
Leadership In History Awards Ceremony by AASLH
2019 Meeting of the AASLH Membership
2019 Meeting of the AASLH Membership by AASLH
Making Anniversaries Matter
How do we make anniversaries matter? How do they serve as opportunities for new growth rather than roadblocks? This session will draw on neu...
Secrets And Silences: When and How to Reveal Challenging Histories
Historians disclose uncomfortable truths. We walk genealogists through shame as we divulge “family secrets.” Sometimes we refute the stories...
Objects Are Complicated Too
Does a waning of the Colonial Revival explain the widening disconnect between museum objects and contemporary values? This session explores...
Military History Museums: More Relevant Than Ever!
For a generation, military history has supposedly been on the decline in academic circles, but military museums are still very popular. Expl...
Opening Plenary: Incarceration and Public History
Opening Plenary: Incarceration and Public History by AASLH
Working Collaboratively: Digitizing the Records of Philadelphia's Historic Congregations
Six congregations and three archival repositories have banded together to digitize the records of eleven of Philadelphia’s historic congrega...
Not For Sale: Preserving and Sharing a Community Collection
This session explores a contested collection of Japanese American artifacts from incarceration collected by curator Allen Hendershott Eaton...
Inconvenient Misconceptions: When Fundraising is Hard(er)
We’re all waiting for fundraising to get easier. But what happens when misperceptions make it even more difficult? This session features a p...
Corporate History in Non-Profit Places
Many non-profit historical museums own and interpret corporate history collections. This session will compare interpretations of industrial...
Can Audiences Design Their Own Programs?
How do we design programs for audiences that are new to us? The Historical Society of Pennsylvania partnered with Taller Puertorriqueño to c...
Keynote: Dan Snow
2018 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Kansas City September 27, 2018 Keynote: Dan Snow