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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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AASLH episodes:

09.13.2019
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 networks that transcend differences of scale, budget, and territory to broaden opportunities for regional audiences? Learn strategies to overcome...
09.13.2019
Overcoming Barriers to Improved Collections Care
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 the help of attendees, participants will identify common barriers to improving collections care and...
09.13.2019
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 collecting from multiple closed public schools across different cities. Gain unique insight around swift preservation methods, memory, and developing creative models to advance...
09.13.2019
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. We’ll explore three different but common approaches—the governing board, volunteers, and a major fundraising campaign—with an experienced director, mid-level...
09.13.2019
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, and Brazil working from an Afrocentric lens, and the many challenges faced, from denialism to political pressure, barriers to community...
09.13.2019
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 spurred youth and community engagement with local history through digital storytelling. This experience bridged age gaps and led to surprising...
09.13.2019
Keynote Address: Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Keynote Address: Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar by AASLH
09.13.2019
Leadership In History Awards Ceremony
Leadership In History Awards Ceremony by AASLH
09.13.2019
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 neuroscience, community health data, psychology, and public history to offer new frameworks for approach. Chair: Braden Paynter, International...
09.13.2019
2019 Meeting of the AASLH Membership
2019 Meeting of the AASLH Membership by AASLH
09.13.2019
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. Explore what three institutions are doing to make military history relevant to modern audiences. Sponsored by the AASLH Military...
09.13.2019
Objects Are Complicated Too
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 stories they tell and how we can mobilize those same objects...
09.13.2019
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 people tell about themselves, or the accounts that historic sites share with the world. This panel will explore the awkward, messy,...
08.31.2019
Opening Plenary: Incarceration and Public History
Opening Plenary: Incarceration and Public History by AASLH
08.30.2019
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 create a model that required letting go of institutional authority. Hear about the successes and challenges from those...
08.30.2019
Corporate History in Non-Profit Places
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 successes and challenges in interpreting corporate history at the Senator John Heinz History Center and...
08.30.2019
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 panel of leaders from several organizations discussing how they address fundraising misconceptions created by state and federal affiliations,...
08.30.2019
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 in 1945. In 2015, a public auction of these artifacts was halted by a grassroots protest that led to the acquisition by...
08.30.2019
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 congregations and make their records available online through a unified portal. Working collaboratively they secured funding, found individuals and institutions to provide...
10.19.2018
Keynote: Dan Snow
2018 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Kansas City September 27, 2018 Keynote: Dan Snow
10.19.2018
On The Road: Doing Midwestern LGBTQ History in Traveling Exhibitions
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 Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
10.19.2018
Whiskey For My Staff an Beer for My Llamas: Corporate Partnerships
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 Village, Dallas, TX
10.19.2018
Getting Sexy at Historic Sites
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, Bloomington, IN
10.19.2018
Reimagining the Historic House Museum
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
10.19.2018
Field Services Alliance Tips: Scaling Best Practices to Fit Your Organization
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, Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, Philadelphia, PA
10.19.2018
Latino Heritage Conservation
2018 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Kansas City, MO September 27, 2018 Latino Heritage Conservation Chair: Sarah Zenaida Gould, PhD, Latin@s in Heritage Conservation and UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures, San Antonio, TX
10.19.2018
Food In The Gallery?
2018 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Kansas City, MO September 29, 2018 Food In The Gallery? Chair: Mary W. Madden, Kansas Museum of History, Kansas Historical Society, Topeka, KS
10.19.2018
Betting On History and Culture in Las Vegas
2018 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Kansas City, MO September 29, 2018 Betting On History and Culture in Las Vegas Chair: Jim McMichael, Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, Las Vegas, NV
10.19.2018
Meeting Of The Membership
2018 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Kansas City, MO September 28, 2018 Meeting of the Membership Chair: Katharine D. Kane, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford, CT
10.19.2018
The Road To Success: Exploring the Intersection between Planning and Innovation
2018 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Kansas City, MO September 28, 2018 The Road To Success: Exploring the Intersection between Planning and Innovation Chair: Steven Blashfield, Glave & Holmes Architecture, Richmond, VA
10.19.2018
Exploring Ken Burns's Vietnam War: National and Local Perspectives
2018 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Kansas City, MO September 28, 2018 Exploring Ken Burns's Vietnam War: National and Local Perspectives Chair: Marc Blackburn, Mount Rainier National Park, Ashford, WA
10.19.2018
Ready For Retirement?
2018 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Kansas City, MO September 28, 2018 Ready For Retirement? Chair: Katharine D. Kane, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford, CT
10.19.2018
Civil Rights Beyond the South: The Significance of Missouri in the Black Freedom Struggles
2018 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Kansas City, MO September 28, 2018 Civil Rights Beyond the South: The Significance of Missouri in the Black Freedom Struggles Chair: Clarence Lang, PhD, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
10.19.2018
NAGPRA: The Truth and Repatriation and the Consequences of Returning Collections
2018 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Kansas City, MO September 28, 2018 NAGPRA: The Truth and Repatriation and the Consequences of Returning Collections Chair: Ryan Wheeler, PhD, Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology, Andover, MA
09.21.2017
Thursday Keynote: Darren Walker
2017 AASLH Annual Meeting Keynote Recording Recorded in Austin, TX September 7, 2017 Speaker: Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation
09.20.2017
Saturday Keynote: Jeremi Suri
2017 AASLH Annual Meeting Keynote Recording Recorded in Austin, TX September 9, 2017 Speaker: Jeremi Suri, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin
09.18.2017
The Why and How of Exhibits and Programs About WWI
2017 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Austin, TX September 8, 2017 The Why and How of Exhibits and Programs About WWI Chair: Gordon Blaker, U.S. Army Artillery Museum, Ft. Sill, OK
09.18.2017
Race, History, and the Archive: Strategies For Community Archives/Museums
2017 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Austin, TX September 8, 2017 Race, History, and the Archive: Strategies For Community Archives/ Museums Chair: Amanda Jasso, Austin History Center, Austin, TX
09.18.2017
Past - Present - Podcast: The Challenges Of On-Air History
2017 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Austin, TX September 8 2017 Past - Present - Podcast: The Challenges Of On-Air History Chair: Jessica Dorman, The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, LA
09.18.2017
History Has Its Eyes on You: Lessons Learned from Broadway's Hamilton
2017 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Austin, TX September 8, 2017 History Has Its Eyes on You: Lessons Learned from Broadway's Hamilton Chair: Becky Schlomann, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN
09.18.2017
Commemorating Tragedy, Healing Wounds: Mother Emanuel AME Church, Charleston, SC
2017 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Austin, TX September 8, 2017 Commemorating Tragedy, Healing Wounds: Mother Emanuel AME Church, Charleston, SC Chair: Dr. George McDaniel, McDaniel Consulting, Charleston, SC
09.18.2017
Building A Small Museum Archives
2017 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Austin, TX September 8, 2017 Building A Small Museum Archives Chair: Berlin Loa, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
09.18.2017
2017 Meeting Of The Membership
2017 AASLH Meeting of the Membership Recorded in Austin, TX September 8, 2017
09.15.2017
Engaging K-16 Through Creative Connections to History
2017 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Austin, TX September 9, 2017 Engaging K-16 Through Creative Connections to History Chair: Kate Betz, Bullock Texas State History Museum, Austin, TX
09.15.2017
Bucking the Trend: Social Media, Meaning, History, and Heritage
2017 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Austin, TX September 9, 2017 Bucking the Trend: Social Media, Meaning, History, and Heritage Chair: Oliver Franklin, Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, TX
09.15.2017
Lessons Learned: Legal, Ethical, and Practical Issues Involved in Finding a New Steward for Upsala
2017 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Austin, TX September 8, 2017 Lessons Learned: Legal, Ethical, and Practical Issues Involved in Finding a New Steward for Upsala Chair: Carrie Villar, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, D.C.
09.15.2017
Beyond Ramps: The Ongoing Journey Toward Universal Accessibility
2017 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Austin, TX September 7, 2017 Beyond Ramps: The Ongoing Journey Toward Universal Accessibility Chair: Dr. Maureen Kelly Jonason, Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County, Moorhead, MN
09.15.2017
Sharing The Stage With Theaters And Schools
2017 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Austin, TX September 7, 2017 Sharing The Stage With Theaters And Schools Chair: Ani Simmons, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, Dallas, TX
09.15.2017
History in Motion: Archival Film and Video in Historical Collections
2017 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Austin, TX September 7, 2017 History in Motion: Archival Film and Video in Historical Collections Chair: Madeline Moya, Texas Archive of the Moving Image, Austin, TX
09.15.2017
From Storefront to Monument: Tracing the Public History of the Black Museum Movement
2017 AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Austin, TX September 7, 2017 From Storefront to Monument: Tracing the Public History of the Black Museum Movement Chair: Andrea Burns, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

What's AASLH about?

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AASLH episodes:

We Can Do It—Collaboratively!

Overcoming Barriers to Improved Collections Care

We Cannot Afford To Wait: Saving Public School History, Material Culture, and Stories

Waiting For People And Money: Strategies for Building Support for House Museums

Afrocentric History Museums: Shall We Start an Afrocentric Museum Resistance Movement?

All The Cool Kids Are Doing It: Local History as Community Engagement

Keynote Address: Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Leadership In History Awards Ceremony

Making Anniversaries Matter

2019 Meeting of the AASLH Membership

Military History Museums: More Relevant Than Ever!

Objects Are Complicated Too

Secrets And Silences: When and How to Reveal Challenging Histories

Opening Plenary: Incarceration and Public History

Can Audiences Design Their Own Programs?

Corporate History in Non-Profit Places

Inconvenient Misconceptions: When Fundraising is Hard(er)

Not For Sale: Preserving and Sharing a Community Collection

Working Collaboratively: Digitizing the Records of Philadelphia's Historic Congregations

Keynote: Dan Snow

On The Road: Doing Midwestern LGBTQ History in Traveling Exhibitions

Whiskey For My Staff an Beer for My Llamas: Corporate Partnerships

Getting Sexy at Historic Sites

Reimagining the Historic House Museum

Field Services Alliance Tips: Scaling Best Practices to Fit Your Organization

Latino Heritage Conservation

Food In The Gallery?

Betting On History and Culture in Las Vegas

Meeting Of The Membership

The Road To Success: Exploring the Intersection between Planning and Innovation

Exploring Ken Burns's Vietnam War: National and Local Perspectives

Ready For Retirement?

Civil Rights Beyond the South: The Significance of Missouri in the Black Freedom Struggles

NAGPRA: The Truth and Repatriation and the Consequences of Returning Collections

Thursday Keynote: Darren Walker

Saturday Keynote: Jeremi Suri

The Why and How of Exhibits and Programs About WWI

Race, History, and the Archive: Strategies For Community Archives/Museums

Past - Present - Podcast: The Challenges Of On-Air History

History Has Its Eyes on You: Lessons Learned from Broadway's Hamilton

Commemorating Tragedy, Healing Wounds: Mother Emanuel AME Church, Charleston, SC

Building A Small Museum Archives

2017 Meeting Of The Membership

Engaging K-16 Through Creative Connections to History

Bucking the Trend: Social Media, Meaning, History, and Heritage

Lessons Learned: Legal, Ethical, and Practical Issues Involved in Finding a New Steward for Upsala

Beyond Ramps: The Ongoing Journey Toward Universal Accessibility

Sharing The Stage With Theaters And Schools

History in Motion: Archival Film and Video in Historical Collections

From Storefront to Monument: Tracing the Public History of the Black Museum Movement