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Sessions and podcasts from past annual meetings, covering the most important issues facing public historians, museums, and historic sites.
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Collaboration is key, but not always easy. How can large urban museums and small local presenters work together to grow collaborative networks that transcend differences of scale, budget, and territor...
Overcoming Barriers to Improved Collections Care (01:14:23)
Every institution, especially smaller ones, faces barriers to collections care and collections management. Lack of funding, small staffs, and institutional buy-in contribute to these problems. With th...
We Cannot Afford To Wait: Saving Public School History, Material Culture, and Stories (01:36:38)
Join museum practitioners, preservationists, scholars, and a conceptual artist for a conversation about rapid response versus strategic collecting from multiple closed public schools across different ...
Waiting For People And Money: Strategies for Building Support for House Museums (01:15:01)
When house museums want to leap forward, wishful thinking isn’t enough. They need sufficient capacity and support to achieve their vision. We’ll explore three different but common approaches—the gover...
Afrocentric History Museums: Shall We Start an Afrocentric Museum Resistance Movement? (01:37:01)
History museums in the U.S. and beyond still interpret predominantly white histories. This session presents museums in United States, Canada, and Brazil working from an Afrocentric lens, and the many ...
All The Cool Kids Are Doing It: Local History as Community Engagement (01:14:07)
How can using Smithsonian resources bolster community engagement? The panel will discuss how hosting a Museum on Main Street exhibition spurred youth and community engagement with local history throug...
Keynote Address: Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar (01:06:57)
Keynote Address: Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar by AASLH
Leadership In History Awards Ceremony (01:22:58)
Leadership In History Awards Ceremony by AASLH
2019 Meeting of the AASLH Membership (00:58:33)
2019 Meeting of the AASLH Membership by AASLH
Making Anniversaries Matter (01:16:23)
How do we make anniversaries matter? How do they serve as opportunities for new growth rather than roadblocks? This session will draw on neuroscience, community health data, psychology, and public his...
Secrets And Silences: When and How to Reveal Challenging Histories (01:18:53)
Historians disclose uncomfortable truths. We walk genealogists through shame as we divulge “family secrets.” Sometimes we refute the stories people tell about themselves, or the accounts that historic...
Objects Are Complicated Too (01:19:52)
Does a waning of the Colonial Revival explain the widening disconnect between museum objects and contemporary values? This session explores ways we have traditionally valued objects for the privileged...
Military History Museums: More Relevant Than Ever! (01:22:19)
For a generation, military history has supposedly been on the decline in academic circles, but military museums are still very popular. Explore what three institutions are doing to make military histo...
Opening Plenary: Incarceration and Public History (01:25:33)
Opening Plenary: Incarceration and Public History by AASLH
Working Collaboratively: Digitizing the Records of Philadelphia's Historic Congregations (01:07:51)
Six congregations and three archival repositories have banded together to digitize the records of eleven of Philadelphia’s historic congregations and make their records available online through a unif...
Not For Sale: Preserving and Sharing a Community Collection (01:16:58)
This session explores a contested collection of Japanese American artifacts from incarceration collected by curator Allen Hendershott Eaton in 1945. In 2015, a public auction of these artifacts was ha...
Inconvenient Misconceptions: When Fundraising is Hard(er) (01:16:12)
We’re all waiting for fundraising to get easier. But what happens when misperceptions make it even more difficult? This session features a panel of leaders from several organizations discussing how th...
Corporate History in Non-Profit Places (01:17:48)
Many non-profit historical museums own and interpret corporate history collections. This session will compare interpretations of industrial artifacts in corporate and non-profit places and present suc...
Can Audiences Design Their Own Programs? (01:12:45)
How do we design programs for audiences that are new to us? The Historical Society of Pennsylvania partnered with Taller Puertorriqueño to create a model that required letting go of institutional auth...
Keynote: Dan Snow (01:14:09)
2018 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording
Recorded in Kansas City
September 27, 2018
Keynote: Dan Snow
On The Road: Doing Midwestern LGBTQ History in Traveling Exhibitions (01:18:32)
2018 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording
Recorded in Kansas City, MO
September 27, 2018
On The Road: Doing Midwestern LGBTQ History in Traveling Exhibitions
Chair: Taylor C. Bye, University of Mi...
Whiskey For My Staff an Beer for My Llamas: Corporate Partnerships (01:10:31)
2018 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording
Recorded in Kansas City, MO
September 27, 2018
Whiskey For My Staff an Beer for My Llamas: Corporate Partnerships
Chair: Melissa Prycer, Dallas Heritage V...
Getting Sexy at Historic Sites (01:15:11)
2018 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording
Recorded in Kansas City, MO
September 27, 2018
Getting Sexy at Historic Sites
Chair: Susan Ferentinos, Public History Researcher, Writer, and Consultant, ...
Reimagining the Historic House Museum (01:15:21)
2018 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording
Recorded in Kansas City, MO
September 27, 2018
Reimagining the Historic House Museum
Chair: Kenneth C. Turino, Historic New England, Haverhill, MA
Field Services Alliance Tips: Scaling Best Practices to Fit Your Organization (01:14:36)
2018 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording
Recorded in Kansas City, MO
September 27, 2018
Field Services Alliance Tips: Scaling Best Practices to Fit Your Organization
Chair: Samantha Forsko, Conse...
