2019 Meeting of the AASLH Membership
2019 Meeting of the AASLH Membership by AASLH
13 Syys 201958min
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 his...
13 Syys 20191h 16min
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...
13 Syys 20191h 18min
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...
13 Syys 20191h 19min
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 histo...
13 Syys 20191h 22min
Opening Plenary: Incarceration and Public History
Opening Plenary: Incarceration and Public History by AASLH
31 Elo 20191h 25min
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 unif...
30 Elo 20191h 7min
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 ha...
30 Elo 20191h 16min
