AASLH

2019 Meeting of the AASLH Membership by AASLH

13 Sep 201958min

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 Sep 20191h 16min

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 Sep 20191h 18min

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 Sep 20191h 19min

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 Sep 20191h 22min

Opening Plenary: Incarceration and Public History by AASLH

31 Aug 20191h 25min

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 Aug 20191h 7min

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 Aug 20191h 16min