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CMY K HISTORY. IT’S ALL AROUND. Welcome to Virginia’s Historic Richmond Region! Here, more than 400 years of history live on through magnificent architecture, monument-lined cobblestone streets, and world-class museums – for an experience that’s anything but textbook.

VisitRichmondVa.com RICHMOND METROPOLITAN CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU Dear Attendees:

Welcome to Richmond! We are delighted to have you join us for the annual meeting of the American Association for State and Local History. Table of Contents ______The Local Host and Program Committees created a terrific meeting 3 Need to Know! experience for you, including speakers, sessions, tours, an outstanding Registration Desk Hours exhibit hall, and evening events that are the perfect combination of fun ______and educational. We are sure you will enjoy this first-rate professional 4 Featured Speakers development and networking opportunity, and hope you take part in as ______many events as possible. 5 Annual Meeting Highlights ______Your registration packet contains many important items. Be sure to look 6–7 Schedule at a Glance through it carefully for notices and program updates. If you have any ______questions, don’t hesitate to ask one of the many volunteers working at the 8–9 Exhibit Hall Highlights meeting. You can spot them by the ribbons they wear: and Maps ______ Violet – Volunteer Staff 10–19 Exhibitors  Maroon – AASLH Council Members ______ Cream – Host Committee 20–21 Richmond Tours ______ Pink – Program Committee 23 Evening Events ______Please take the time to thank our sponsors and exhibitors for their role in making this meeting useful and affordable. These dedicated professionals Premeeting Workshops are here to bring you products and services that will help you in your 24–25 Wednesday, September 14 important work. They also enable us to keep your registration fee the best ______deal in the country! Concurrent Sessions On behalf of AASLH and the dozens of volunteers who have worked so and Program hard to bring you this event—have fun and remember that we are here to 26–31 Thursday, September 15 make this meeting a special experience for you. Don’t hesitate to let us 33–37 Friday, September 16 know how we can help. 39–42 Saturday, September 17 ______Sincerely, 43–44 Sponsors and Special Thanks!

Terry L. Davis President and CEO AASLH Welcome Toto Richmond!

ere in Richmond, throughout the 2011 AASLH Annual Meeting, we hope you discover the richness the city has to offer and that you find yourself in the folds of America’s beginnings where the threads of our federal government were generated and the mottoes of our national heritage were initially scripted. Monuments and museums attest to the multitude of achievements and sacrifices made by our famousH forbearers, while historic sites, markers, and trails tell the stories of the thousands of anonymous people who labored in making their contributions to building the city, state, region, and nation.

We are especially excited that Richmond is the setting for this year’s conference theme, Commemoration: The Promise of Remembrance and New Beginnings. The promise of remembrance is the work of commemoration, the responsibility to mark and search for the meanings of our ancestors’ achievements and afflictions. Their monuments and moments are the promise they left to us to build the next generation of new beginnings. Richmond is one of the most history-rich cities in our nation; a city that holds outstanding opportunities to experience commemorative sites, spaces, and collections that are key pieces of our nation’s memory—the proud, the conflicted, and the complex realities that call us to “do” history. Here is our opportunity, at the time of the 150th anniversary of our nation’s Civil War and the 10th anniversary of 9/11 to engage in fresh and candid conversations from the banks of the beautiful James River.

We encourage you to explore the many historical venues in Richmond! Consider a visit to the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar that explores the U.S. Civil War from multiple perspectives, and the Virginia Holocaust Museum that includes an international mission to teach tolerance. Influential, heroic Americans are remembered at Thomas Jefferson’s boyhood home at Tuckahoe Plantation, at St. John’s Episcopal Church where Patrick Henry declared “Give me liberty or give me death,” and at the Maggie L. Walker Site, which reminds visitors of the triumphs of African Americans even when confronted by inequality and segregation. A walk or ride along historic Monument Avenue will likely prompt dynamic discussions about whose stories are preserved in stone and metal for present and future generations to contemplate. Such sites are meant for us to learn from, to study, to question, to admire, and to perpetuate.

The AASLH Annual Meeting includes a truly healthy selection of sessions and the evening events, tours and social events are packed with opportunities to learn, network, and enjoy. Join Dr. Spencer Crew at the Town Hall meeting to question and discuss the role of commemoration in our work and in education. Be sure to attend the outstanding keynote speaker Dorothy Cotton who will speak from her heart about the rise of the Civil Rights movement in the 20th century. Get to the awards banquet early to get your seat to listen to plenary speaker and historian Dr. Edward Ayers on Saturday evening.

We hope that the AASLH 2011 Annual Meeting energizes you, expands your knowledge, and helps connect you to the power of commemoration and helps you to discover resources for new beginnings in the work you do in the field of state and local history.

We are so glad you are here!

Sincerely, From Host and Program committee and Program Host From Julie Rose Norman Burns II Paul Levengood Program Chair Host Committee Co-Chair Host Committee Co-Chair West Baton Rouge Museum Maymont Foundation Virginia Historical Society

2 AASLH 2011 in richmond, Va Need to Know! 1. Name badges must be worn at all times. 2. Only registered attendees will be allowed to attend sessions and workshops. 3. N onregistered guests are not allowed to attend sessions or workshops, but may purchase tickets to attend tours and other special events. Please check with AASLH registration desk for availability. 4. Your purchased tickets are located in your registration packet. Please check them for the appropriate meeting Richmond Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau Richmond Metropolitan Convention and Visitors times and locations for special events. 5. Tickets are necessary for all workshops, labs, luncheons, tours, and evening events. A ticket is not required for the membership luncheon on Friday. Please show your ticket before boarding buses or entering an evening event. If you’d like to purchase tickets, please visit the AASLH registration desk. Some events may be sold out. 6. Buses for Tours and Evening Events will depart from the First Level Starbucks entrance of the Marriott. Updates ______Session Main Street Station ☛ Schedule Changes! Please double-check your schedule to make sure some of the sessions and programs that ✩✩✩ you plan to attend have not changed. Rescheduled: A A S L H R eg i strat i o n Safety First: Creating a Safety Training Desk Hours Program for Your Institution scheduled for Saturday from 1:30–5:30 pm The AASLH Annual Meeting registration desk will will be held on Saturday from 9–10:15 am. be staffed during the following times to answer any NEW! questions you may have during the meeting. History in the Media will be held on Thursday, September 15 at 4 pm. Tuesday, September 13...... 3 – 5 pm

Wednesday, September 14...... 7 am – 6 pm

Thursday, September 15...... 7 am – 6 pm

Friday, September 16...... 7 am – 5 pm

Saturday, September 17 ...... 8 am – 12 pm ✩✩✩

Sessions and Annual Meeting Evaluations Help us improve! Session evaluations are placed in each meeting room. Please take a few minutes to complete the form at the end of the session. An overall Annual Meeting evaluation will be emailed after the meeting. Virginia Historical Society Virginia Virginia House Gardens

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Thursday, Friday, September 15 September 16 10:45 am–12 pm 6:30–9:30 pm Adam Goodheart is a Awards Banquet Speaker

historian, travel essayist, and University of Richmond Edward Ayers became Adam Goodheart critic whose work often deals with president of the University of the intersection of the present Richmond in 2007. There, he has and the past. A 1992 graduate of overseen The Richmond Promise, Harvard, he was a founder and senior editor of Civilization, an ambitious collaboration the magazine of the Library of Congress, which won the across the institution. That work National Magazine Award for General Excellence in its first has attracted record numbers year of publication. He has been a prolific writer, contributing of excellent applicants from frequent essays and reviews to such publications as the New around the nation and the world, inspired high levels of York Times (where he also served as deputy editor of the Op- alumni involvement, initiated bold curricular innovation, Ed page), the American Scholar (of which he is a contributing and strengthened ties between the university and the city of editor and former Editorial Board member), the Atlantic Richmond. Ayers has been named National Professor of the Monthly, National Geographic, Smithsonian, the Washington Year and won the Bancroft Prize for distinguished writing in Post, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications. Among American history, among many other awards. He maintains the prizes his work has received are the Lowell Thomas an active scholarly career, teaching first-year students at UR, Award of the Society of American Travel Writers (2004) the speaking widely, collaborating with the University’s Digital Henry Lawson Award for Travel Writing (2005), and the A.D. Scholarship Lab, and co-hosting a nationally syndicated radio Emmart Award for excellence in the humanities (2007). He is show, BackStory. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts & the director of the American Pictures Distinguished Lecture Sciences, Ayers serves on the boards of the American Council Series at the Smithsonian and a member of the Board of for Education, the National Humanities Center, and a range of Directors of the Maryland Humanities Council. Goodheart historical and community organizations in Richmond. has taught courses in American Studies, English, History, Anthropology, and Art at Washington College, where he holds the Hodson Trust-Griswold Directorship of the C.V. Starr Saturday, Center for the Study of the American Experience. September 17 1:30–3:30 pm Friday, Town Hall Moderator Spencer Crew has worked in public September 16 history institutions for more than 2:30–3:45 pm twenty-five years. He served

Dr. Dorothy Cotton Dr. Dr. Dorothy Cotton translates as president of the National years of experience and learning Underground Railroad Freedom into words and song bearing Creative Services, George Mason University Center for six years and worked messages of hope. Through “Songs at the Smithsonian National of the Movement,” laughter, and Museum of American History for twenty years. Nine of those storytelling, Dorothy synthesizes years he served as the director of NMAH. Crew has published the lessons from our history into extensively in the areas of African American and Public a working vision for the future. Cotton was the Education History. Among his publications are Field to Factory: Afro- Director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference American Migration 1915–1940 (1987), and Black Life for twelve years. Working closely with Dr. King, she served in Secondary Cities: A Comparative Analysis of the Black on his executive staff and was part of his entourage to Oslo, Communities of Camden and Elizabeth, N.J. 1860–1920 Norway, where he received the Nobel Peace Prize. She served (1993). He co-authored The American Presidency: A Glorious as the Vice President for Field Operations for the Dr. M.L.K. Burden (2002) and Unchained Memories: Readings From Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta. Dr. Cotton The Slave Narratives (2002). Crew is an active member of the was the director of Student Activities at Cornell University for academic and cultural communities, serving on many boards nine years, and served as the Southeastern Regional Director that work to generate enthusiasm for history among the of ACTION, the Federal Government’s Agency for volunteer general public. He is the Past Chair of the National Council programs for three years. She holds a masters’ degree for History Education and serves on the Board of the National from Boston University in the area of Special Education. Trust for Historic Preservation as well as the Nominating Currently she is involved in the expansion of the National Board of the Organization of American Historians. He Citizenship School in conjunction with Civic Organizing, Inc. graduated from Brown University and holds a master’s degree of Minnesota. Dorothy’s upcoming book will focus on lessons and a doctorate from Rutgers University. from the historic citizenship education program and her work with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Sharing Your Ideas and Opportunities 2011 Annual Meeting Blog The Annual Meeting includes activities and networking Get in the spirit of the conference by visiting the 2011 especially for the field of state and local history! In addition to Annual Meeting Blog. Prepare for the conference with posts sponsored sessions throughout the meeting, you’re invited to on the theme of commemoration, remembrance, and new attend the following AASLH Affinity Group events to discuss beginnings. Also, keep up with what is going on throughout the latest issues, share ideas, and to be inspired: the conference as attendees provide a “man/woman on the ground” perspective of conference sessions and events. ✩ Corporate History Museums and Archives – http://aaslhconference.org/2011. Tour on Wednesday and Lunch on Thursday ✩ Court and Legal History – Lunch on Friday Twitter Share your comments about the conference ✩ Educators and Interpreters – Breakfast Roundtable on Twitter. Use hashtag #AASLH2011. and Educator’s Showcase on Thursday ✩ Field Services Alliance – Meeting on Wednesday AwardsPalooza: Movie Fest 2011 ✩ Historic House Museums – Breakfast on Friday Lights, Camera, Action! Come to AwardsPalooza to view ✩ IDEA Roundtable on Friday recent AASLH Leadership in History Award winning documentary films on Friday, September 16. The Movie ✩ Military History – Breakfast and Tour on Saturday Lounge in the Madison room will show films in an informal ✩ Small Museums – Luncheon and Small Museums Day theatre setting throughout the day. Stop by throughout the day on Thursday to view award-winning history films from across the country or to discuss the AASLH awards program and potential ✩ Presidential Sites and Libraries – Breakfast on nominations. A schedule of films will be posted at the room Saturday and at the registration desk. ✩ Visitors’ Voices – Breakfast on Thursday Connecting to Collections Continuing How Does Commemoration Impact American Conversation Exchange Memory? Town Hall Meeting The 2011 AASLH Annual Meeting includes the first Connecting to Collections Continuing Join fellow attendees on Saturday, 1:30–3:30 pm, for a Conversation Exchange. AASLH is pleased to Town Hall Meeting, sponsored by the Virginia Association welcome the participants in this exchange to of Museums. As interpreters of our nation’s past, our field Richmond. Each Exchange will allow recipients searches for meaning in the achievements and trials of those of IMLS Connecting to Collections Statewide Planning and who came before us. Commemoration aims to celebrate, Implementation Grants to share the results of their projects educate, and honor the past. With commemoration comes and to learn from each other in a collaborative environment. reflection. How do we remember key pieces of our nation’s Through this project, the Texas State Library and Archives history? Whose lens do we use to see the past? How can Commission and its partners, including AASLH, hope to add these spaces become meaningful and relevant? It brings the value to the Connecting to Collections Initiative, to expand promise of new beginnings as we continuously reflect on our the opportunities for continuing professional development for past, future, and stories we tell. This interactive session, cultural heritage experts responsible for statewide collections moderated by Dr. Spencer Crew, will be a rich conversation care planning and education, and to develop the resources about the significance of remembering and forgetting, the needed for us all to be good citizens when it comes to responsibilities of commemoration, and the power of the preserving our history. Sessions are open to all conference voices we choose to recall history. The microphone will be attendees on Thursday and Friday. This project is made open, so bring your questions, and plan to be challenged! possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and its grant partners.

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✩ Tuesday ✩ ✩ Thursday ✩ 1:30–2:45 pm Concurrent Sessions 3–5 pm 7 am–6 pm • Beyond Colonial: Expanding Stories, Promoting Revitalization ��Jefferson Registration Registration • Challenges Facing Collaborative 7–8 am Commemorations �� Salon A • Tour: City Center Walking Tour of the Capitol, • Developing History Leaders @SHA: ✩ Wednesday ✩ Cost: $15 How You Can Prepare �� Salon 1 • The Do’s and Don’ts of Working with 7–8:15 am 7 am–6 pm Private Collectors and Researchers ��Monroe • Breakfast: Visitors’ Voices Affinity Group, Registration • Educator’s Showcase �� Salon 3 Cost: $30 �� Madison • How Small Museums Can Use 8 am–5:30 pm 8:30–9:45 am What Visitors Studies Has to Offer ��Capitol • Tour: A Day of Presidents, Cost: $75 • Breakfast and Roundtable: Educators and • New Beginnings: Historic House Museums Adapt for the Future �� Salon C 8:30 am–12:30 pm Interpreters, Cost: $30 �� Salon 4 • Small Museum Resources: AASLH Workshops 8:30 am–12:30 pm Online Community and Beyond ��Salon 6–7 • The AASLH Project Management for • Tour: I Know Richmond: The Bus Tour, • Transforming Organizations Through Community History Professionals Legacy Program, Cost: $30 Involvement �� Salon D Cost: $45 �� Salon 3 8:30 am–5:30 pm • Using Social Media to Engage Audiences in • The Case of the Unidentified Photograph, Museums and History Organizations �� Salon B Cost: $45 ��Salon 1–2 • Tour: 19th-Century Battlefields Through 21st- Century Eyes, Cost: $55 • Engaging Young Children in Understanding and 2:45–3:45 pm Remembering the Past, Cost: $45 ��Salon 6–7 8:30–9:45 am • Afternoon Refreshment Break ��Exhibit Hall • StEPs Curriculum Train-the-Trainer, Cost: Free, Preregistration Required �� Salon C–D Concurrent Sessions 4–5:15 pm • Connecting to the Future: Statewide Concurrent Sessions 8:30 am–5 pm Disaster Preparedness Planning ��Capitol • Adopting Technology: Workshops • The End of PowerPoint ��Monroe Challenges and Predictions ��Monroe • By Invitation Only: CEO Forum, • Finding Your Way on the Career Path ��Salon 6–7 • Closing a House Museum: Cost: $150/$220 for two from same organization • Incorporating Visitor Input to Create From Lemons to Lemonade �� Salon D �� Salon 4 Meaningful Marketing Messages �� Salon C • Connecting to Collections: • Embracing Divergent Memories Through • Interpreting Divergent Voices and Tools You Can Use �� Salon C Dialogue Design and Facilitation, Challenging Narratives �� Salon A Cost: $75 �� Salon A–B • Hey! Voices of Remembrance • Mementos and Tributes �� Salon 2 Come From Outside Museums �� Salon 2 • Preserving, Restoring, and Managing the Historic Landscape, Cost: $75 ��Maymont • New Beginnings with NEH Support �� Salon B • History in the Media �� Salon 1 • Operation and Commemoration • Immigration, Civil Rights, and 1–5:30 pm Models for Corporate Museums �� Salon 1 Public Memory �� Salon 5 • Tour: Corporate History, Cost: $30 • Opportunities for Civil War Data 150 �� Salon D • Inspiring the Next Generation: Adding Value and Outreach to • State Policy Responses for 1:30–5 pm Museum Education Programs �� Salon B State-Owned Historic Sites ��Jefferson • Tour: Civil War Sampler, Cost: $30 • Remembering Even When It Hurts ��Jefferson Workshops 9:45–10:45 am • Small Museums, Big Impact �� Salon A • Dusty Boxes—Undiscovered Stories: Bring Your • Morning Refreshment Break ��Exhibit Hall • Three Historic Houses of Worship Archives to Light, Cost: $45 ��Salon 6–7 • First Time Attendee Reception Sponsored by the in Richmond: St. John’s, Beth Ahabah, • Field Services Alliance Meeting, AASLH Mentor Committee �� Salon 5 and Sixth Mount Zion ��Salon 6–7 Cost: Free ��Salon 1–2 • Y ou Are There: A Radical Approach to 10:45 am–12 pm • Problem Solving and Skill Sets: Exhibition Development �� Capitol Producing a Successful Historic Keynote speaker 5:45–6:30 pm Clothing Exhibit, Cost: $45 �� Salon 3 • Adam Goodheart �� Convention Center B15 • Thinking Critically About Exhibition Interactives, Reception Cost: $45 �� Salon C–D 12–1:15 pm • Developing History Leaders @SHA, Cost: Free • Walking Through History, Honoring Sacred • Corporate History Luncheon, Cost: $35 �� Salon 4 Stories, Cost: $45 �� Offsite ��Hilton Garden Inn (Bus departs at 1pm) 6:30–9 pm • Small Museums Luncheon, Cost: $35 �� Salon 4 Evening Event 6:30–9:30 pm 12–2:45 pm • History and Hospitality—Virginia Style, Evening Event • Directors’ Luncheon and Session, Cost: $40 Cost: $45 • Party in the Gardens of Historic Court End, �� Salon 5 Cost: $45

6 AASLH 2011 in richmond, Va ✩ friday ✩ 12–1:15 pm 9–10:15 am • Membership and Networking Luncheon, Concurrent Sessions 7 am–6 pm Cost: Free ��Exhibit Hall • Advocacy for History Organizations ��Salon H Registration • Court and Legal History Luncheon, Cost: $35 �� Salon 6 • The Bicentennial Impact: Legacies of Commemoration �� Salon B 7–8 am 1:15–2:15 pm • Doing the New Biography �� Salon G • Tour: City Center Walking Tour of the Court End, Cost: $15 • Meeting of the Membership • Focusing on Visitors: Training Frontline �� Convention Center B15 Staff and Volunteers �� Salon D 7–8:15 am 1:30–5:30 pm • History Is [No Longer] Written by • Breakfast: Historic House Museums, the Victors �� Salon 2 • Tour: Richmond’s Historic Houses, Cost: $30 Cost: $30 �� Salon 5 • Microphilanthropy: Microgiving, Crowdfunding, and New Models of Fundraising �� Salon A 8:30 am–12:30 pm 2 pm • Exhibit Hall Closes • Monuments and Memory: “America’s Most • Tour: Historic Cemeteries and Burial Grounds, Beautiful Boulevard”—to Whom? �� Salon I Cost: $30 2:15–2:30 pm • A New Place for You at AASLH �� Salon 1 • Tour: Life on the James River, Cost: $30 • Afternoon Break • Recovering Culture Through 8:30 am–1:15 pm Conversation �� Salon C 2:30–3:45 pm • AwardsPalooza: Movie Fest 2011 �� Madison • Reinterpreting Remembrance: Engaging Plenary Address Audiences in a New Dialogue About Memory and Public Commemoration �� Salon 3 8:30–9:45 am • Dr. Dorothy Cotton �� Convention Center B15 • Safety First: Creating a Safety Concurrent Sessions 3:45–4 pm Training Program ��Monroe • 21st-Century Roundtable for Museum Professionals �� Salon 6 • Break �� Convention Center B15 9 am–3 pm • Caching in on History: How to Capitalize on 3:45–5:15 pm • Tour: Hardtack and Heroines, Cost: $55 Geo-Caching at Your Historic Site �� Salon 3 • AwardsPalooza: Movie Fest 2011 �� Madison • Dinosaur or Not? Are Local Historical Societies 10:15–10:45 am Headed for Extinction? �� Salon 4 4–5:15 pm • Morning Break ��Foyer • Finding a Sustainable House Museum Concurrent Sessions 10:45 am–12 pm Environment �� Salon 2 • Beyond Numbers: What Does Success • Hands-On vs. Hands-Off: Concurrent Sessions Look Like? ��Capitol The Rembrandt Rule Revisited �� Salon B • 2012 Annual Meeting Roundtable �� Salon I • Collection and Recollection �� Salon D • NHD Works: The Power of National • The Challenges and Opportunities of History Day’s Evaluation Findings �� Salon C • Connecting to the Public: Outreach and Interpreting African American History at Advocacy for Collections Care �� Salon 3 • Programming for Pivotal Moments Historic Places �� Salon G in History �� Capitol • The Content Is Key: Elevating the Audio • Changes in Funding Models Tour in the Mobile Technology Age �� Salon B • Secession and the Confederacy: for History Organizations �� Salon D Issues for Local History Sites �� Jefferson/Monroe • Finding Our Future Supporters �� Salon 4 • How Do You Use the Collection • Small Museum-Friendly Grants �� Salon 1 • No Idea is Too Ridiculous �� Salon 2 at Your Historic House? �� Salon 3 • Taking a Seat for Justice: • On to Richmond! How the Former Capital of the • Letting Go? Sharing Authority The 1960 Baton Rouge Sit-Ins �� Salon D Confederacy Transformed a Union Army Battle in Public History Practice �� Salon B Cry Into a Tourism Marketing Brand �� Salon 5 • “There Shall Be a Record Kept • Let My Voice Be Heard! Civil War Among You:” Mormon Records as a • Programming Outside the Civil War Box: Commemoration in Bordering States �� Salon 2 Source for Local History �� Salon A Connecting Unconventional Themes • Marketing the Past: Working with Local Tourism �� to the Sesquicentennial Salon 1 Agencies to Promote a Commemoration �� Salon C 9:45–10:45 am • A StEP in the Right Direction: A Self-Study • Reinterpreting and Reenvisioning • Morning Refreshment Break ��Exhibit Hall Program for Museums and Sites �� Salon A South Carolina’s Civil War for the • The Ties That Bind: 150th Anniversary �� Salon A 10:45 am–12 pm �� Social Space for Success Salon C • Remembering Abraham Lincoln ��Salon H Concurrent Sessions 6:30–9:30 pm • Responding to History in the Making: • Activating Places of Memory �� Salon 4 New Community Relevance �� Salon 1 Evening Event • Aren’t We Forgetting Something? 1:30–3:30 pm The War of 1812 Bicentennial �� Salon 2 • AASLH Leadership in History Awards Banquet, Cost: $60 �� Salon E • Town Hall Meeting: How Does Commemoration • Connecting to Information: How Does Impact American Memory?, Cost: Free Your Institution Measure Up? �� Salon A ��State Capitol • Field Services Alliance Presents Museum Tips �� Salon 3 ✩ Saturday ✩ 1:30–5:30 pm • IDEA Roundtable �� Jefferson/Monroe • Hands-On Lab Sessions, Cost: $30 each • Opportunities and Resources 7:30–8:45 am • Get Students Doing History ��Jefferson from IMLS �� Salon C • Breakfast: Military History/Presidential Sites • Green Makeover—Environmental Sustainability at and Libraries Affinity Groups Joint Breakfast, Historic Properties �� Virginia House • Remember the Courts: Using Legal Resources Cost: $30 ��Capitol in Your Civil War Programming ��Capitol • Pathways: Discovering Your Connections to History ��Monroe • Remember the Ladies: Commemorating 8 am–12 pm Women’s Sacrifices, Achievements, Registration 2–5 pm and Rights �� Salon 1 • Tour: In the Beginning—Virginia: Along the Trail • Sustainable Preservation: 8 am–6:30 pm of Enslaved Africans, Cost: $35 Balancing Collections, Resources, • Tour: A Day in Colonial Williamsburg, Cost: $75 and the Environment �� Salon B

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Explore New Products and Services in the Exhibit Hall On Thursday and Friday, don’t miss your chance to meet more than seventy vendors and suppliers at this year’s annual meeting. The Exhibit Hall is your place to network and check out the latest technology and services. You can also visit the AASLH Career Center to find your next job or post a job opening with your organization. Finally, check in at the office or post to Twitter or Facebook about the conference at the Email Center and Cyber Café. Food, Drinks, and Networking The Exhibit Hall features networking, food, and beverages during the Annual Meeting. E x h i b i t Take a break and join us! hall Thursday, September 15 9 am Exhibit Hall Opens 9:45–10:45 am Morning Refreshment Break 2:45–3:45 pm Afternoon Refreshment Break 5:15 pm Exhibit Hall Closes Friday, September 16 9 am Exhibit Hall Opens 9:45–10:45 am Morning Refreshment Break 12–1:15 pm Free Membership Luncheon 2 pm Exhibit Hall Closes

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AASLH Programs and Services ...... 105 Glavé & Holmes Architecture...... 30 Organization of American Historians. . . . . 5

AltaMira ...... 52 and 53 Guide by Cell...... 43 PA Civil War 150...... 9

American Association for Museums. . . . .32 Henrico County, Virginia ...... 101 PastPerfect Software...... 110

American Institute for Conservation Heritage Preservation...... 34 Photoworks Creative Group, Inc...... 44 of Historic and Artistic Works...... 60-B Historic Urban Plans, Inc...... 27 Preservation Technologies...... 59 Arcadia Publishing...... 1 Hollinger Metal Edge ...... 26 Quatrefoil Associates ...... 2 Backstage Library Works...... 40 Institute of Museum and Library Services. . 31 Re:discovery Software, Inc...... 107 Bear Wallow Books ...... 28 LearningTimes, LLC...... 15 Richmond CVB...... 109 Brad Larson Media ...... 10 Left Coast Press...... 8 Riggs Ward Design...... 18 ChemArt...... 41 LW Bristol Classics ...... 61 Selago Design...... 60-A Creation Station, LLC...... 54 Making History Connections...... 6 Southeastern Museums Creative Company ...... 46 Conference...... 58 Malone Design/Fabrication...... 20 CuraTour ...... 19 Stories Past...... 63 Markel...... 29 dataformat.com ...... 102 MBA Design & Display The Design Minds, Inc...... 60-C Design 3...... 24 Products Corp...... 11 The Donning Company Publishers & Walsworth...... 39 DesignMasters...... 17 McFarland ...... 37 The Gilder Lehrman Institute of DeWolfe and Wood...... 35 Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums. . . .50 American History...... 36 Dorfman ...... 65 Museum Rails...... 25 The History Press...... 48 Eduweb...... 64 Museum Works...... 60 Tour-Mate Systems ...... 12 Elliott + Associates Architects...... 4 NASA Headquarters ...... 3 TourSphere, LLC ...... 7 EwingCole...... 47 National Endowment for the University of Oklahoma – College of Liberal Humanities...... 106 F.C. Vogt Company, Inc...... 103 Studies ...... 55 NEH on the Road / Gale Cengage Learning...... 21 Virginia Association of Museums...... 104 Mid-America Arts Alliance...... 33 Gaylord Bros...... 13 Northeast Document Conservation Center. . 66 Genealogical Publishing Company. . . . . 42 OnCell Systems...... 108 GLASBAU HAHN America...... 38

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Commemoration: The promise of Remembrance and New Beginnings 19 These events are not included in the annual meeting registration fee and require preregistration. See the registration Tours desk for details. Some events may be sold out. ✩✩✩ Wednesday, September 14

A Day of Presidents Civil War Sampler 8 am–5:30 pm 1:30–5:30 pm Cost: $75 Cost: $30 Spend the day with two noted presidents. Experience a comprehensive look at the unique role The day will begin with a visit to the newly Richmond played as the capital of the Confederacy. restored home of James Madison, the father of Enjoy a driving tour through Church Hill, Shockoe the Constitution, nestled in the foothills of the Bottom, Court End, the canal area, Hollywood Blue Ridge Mountains. This glorious estate Cemetery, and Monument Avenue, with stops at was Madison’s lifelong home. In 2003, The The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar Montpelier Foundation began the restoration Ironworks and the battlefields at Gaines Mill and Cold of the Montpelier mansion to the 1820s Harbor. home that James and Dolley Madison knew and loved. The architectural restoration was Corporate History Tour celebrated on Constitution Day, September 1–5:30 pm 17, 2008; intensive forensic work continues Cost: $30 for the interiors and the historic landscape. Join the AASLH Corporate History Affinity Group for a Your journey will continue with an intimate visit to the Modlin Center for the Arts on the campus look at Monticello, the extraordinary house of the University of Richmond. Tour the Joel and Lila Thomas Jefferson built and furnished for Harnett Museum of Art. Enjoy a behind the scenes view himself and his family. Begin your exploration of the university’s diverse collections, including objects at the new Thomas Jefferson Visitor Center recently acquired from the ALCOA/Reynolds Corporate and Smith Education Center, the 21st-century Art Collection. Explore themes of corporate art and gateway to Monticello. In exhibitions at the object management and exhibition as we discuss how visitor center and in the house, you will see colleges and universities provide superb collaborative the books, gadgets, art, furnishings, and opportunities for your organization. objects that reveal Jefferson’s unique mind and learn about the free and enslaved workers who built Monticello and labored for Jefferson and his family. There will ✩✩✩ also be an opportunity to discover the Thursday, September 15 beauty and variety of Monticello’s restored flower and vegetable gardens, vineyards, Confederacy. The group will also have grove, and orchards. City Center Walking Tour of the Capitol the opportunity to tour the Capitol, walk Capitol Square, and see the recently 7–8 am dedicated Civil Rights Memorial. Cost: $15 This early morning walking tour of East Broad and Grace streets in downtown 19th Century Battlefields Through Richmond includes the new CenterStage 21st-Century Eyes complex, the National Theatre, the Virginia 8:30 am–5:30 pm State Capitol, and the former Miller & Cost: $55 Rhoads building, now converted into a Experience a sampling of the diverse hotel and condominiums. Civil War battlefields around Richmond Cold Harbor Battlefield by visiting three landmark sites. The I Know Richmond: The Bus Tour 280-year-old home Rural Plains on the 8:30 am–12:30 pm Totopotomoy Creek battlefield demonstrates Cost: $30 the plight of a Virginia family and their An overview of the history of the city antebellum farm in the midst of warring of Richmond, including Court End, armies. Cold Harbor—“one of the hard and the James River and the Fall Line, terrible names” of the Civil War, in Bruce Church Hill, Jackson Ward, the Fan, Catton’s words—is the signature attraction and Monument Avenue. Tour drives by among Richmond’s battlefields.N ew Market Heights, Fort Harrison, and Fort

Richmond N ational Battlefield Park St. John’s Church, Hollywood Cemetery, Main Street Station, the Jefferson Hotel, Gilmer are seminal battlefield sites in the and the Museum and White House of the history of the United States Colored Troops.

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include a stop at the Lumpkin’s

City Center Walking Tour of Richmond’s Historic Houses Historical Society Virginia the Court End Jail site and the Negro Burial 1:30–5:30 pm Grounds. You will learn about their 7–8 am Cost: $30 layout, evolution as parks, artwork, Cost: $15 Examine Richmond’s eclectic symbolism, and notable tenants. This early morning tour of downtown architectural history and Virginia House Richmond includes the area known metropolitan variety in this afternoon as the Court End, home to the Life on the James River tour of three historic houses. Visit Museum of the Confederacy, the 8:30 am–12:30 pm the Black History Museum and Valentine Richmond History Center, Cost: $30 Cultural Center in historic Jackson the John Marshall House, and the Spend the morning visiting three Ward and the Virginia Center for VCU/MCV Medical Campus. of Richmond’s oldest architectural Architecture on upscale Monument treasures in the city’s picturesque Avenue to investigate the lives Historic Cemeteries and West End. Through guided tours and achievements of prominent Burial Grounds of Agecroft Hall, Wilton House Richmonders. Then enjoy a quiet Museum, and Virginia House, respite from typical urban living on 8:30 am–12:30 pm experience daily life in Tudor the sprawling grounds of Maymont Cost: $30 England, Colonial American, and and explore the lives of wealthy and

The tour of Richmond’s historic Hollywood Cemetery World War II Richmond. Stroll working-class residents of the late cemeteries, including St. John’s through landscaped gardens nineteenth-century mansion. Church, Shockoe Cemetery, the overlooking the James River Hebrew Cemetery, Hollywood in Richmond’s most exclusive Cemetery, and Woodlawn will also neighborhoods between house tours.

Hollywood Cemetery ✩✩✩ Saturday, September 17

A Day in Colonial Williamsburg Hardtack and Heroines newly marked sites tell the other 8 am–6:30 pm 9 am–3 pm half of the story; the story that COST: $75 Cost: $55 lives between the pages of history Join your colleagues and sample some of Join the AASLH Military History books—in red, white, and black. the best that Colonial Williamsburg has to Group on a trip to Ft. Lee, This interactive experience along offer. Start your visit with the historic area Virginia, to visit the U.S. Army the Trail of Enslaved Africans gives including the Governor’s Palace, Capitol, Quartermaster Museum and the attendees the chance to ponder or R. Charlton’s Coffeehouse—the newest U.S. Army Women’s Museum and the impact of enslavement on the exhibition site—where you can sample a learn of the important role each of enslaved as shared in their own beverage while discussing events of the day these played in America’s history. words and from their own view. with citizen’s of the town during the morning Enjoy behind the scenes access to Embarking by bus, participants will or you can visit a trade shop or historic house these institutions and gain a new walk in our ancestors’ footsteps from and discover something about the everyday appreciation for these often untold their arrival point at river’s edge into life of Williamsburg’s 18th-century residents. stories. the area of Richmond that housed The group will take a midday break for lunch the holding pens, jails, blocks, and journey on to explore other sites or In the Beginning… and burial ground. Interpreters browse in the Museum Store. The tour will will interweave the narratives of Virginia: Along the Trail of enslaved Africans with historical wrap up with two exciting events, an overview Enslaved Africans of the Revolutionary City program—which record, characterizations of the day, 2–5 pm is the street theater production presenting and music. Attendees will have the COST: $35 vignettes of events that occurred leading into chance to immerse themselves in Join Elegba Folklore Society’s or during the War for Independence given past occurrences that effected how interpreters on a journey into by the Director of Interpretation followed by the American Civil War impacts our Richmond’s history to visit sites a presentation of “The King’s Government perspectives today. where few monuments exist. These Collapses 1765–1776” as it unfolds on the streets of Colonial Williamsburg.

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These events are not included in the annual meeting registration fee and require preregistration. See the registration desk for details.

Party in the Gardens of Historic Court End Wednesday, September 14

Courtesy of VRHC 6:30–9:30 pm Cost: $45 The Valentine Richmond History Center’s picturesque garden extends from the portico of the historic Wickham House (1812). The Museum and White House of the Confederacy features the restored home of Jefferson Davis (1818). Tours, live music, and southern fare: ham biscuits, BBQ, Brunswick stew, and Valentine Garden complimentary Virginia wines.

History and Hospitality— Virginia Style Thursday, September 15 6:30–9 pm Cost: $45 Visit the Virginia Historical Society and Virginia Historical Society Virginia experience the innovative Civil War Sesquicentennial exhibit An American Turning Point featuring more than 200 artifacts and seventeen audiovisual programs to bring to life the stories of the men and women swept up by the great maelstrom of the Civil War. Enjoy the taste of traditional Virginia ham, grits, and the most emblematic of all southern fare, the mint julep. Virginia Historical Society

Leadership in History Awards Banquet Friday, September 16 6:30–9:30 pm Cost: $60

University of Richmond Join AASLH in honoring the best in state and local history at the 2012 Leadership in History Awards. Ed Ayers, president of the University of Richmond and prolific author on the American South, will provide the banquet address. The evening will also include dinner and a lively awards presentation.

Edward Ayers

23 These events are not included in the annual Premeeting Workshops meeting registration fee and require preregistration. See the registration desk Wednesday for details. Some workshops may be sold out. s e p t e m b e r 14

8:30 am–5 pm 8:30 am–5 pm 8:30 am–12:30 pm

CEO Forum: Commemoration: Workshops Workshops The Promise of Remembrance and New Beginnings Embracing Divergent Memories The AASLH Project Management Cost: $150/$220 for two from same Through Dialogue Design and for History Professionals Legacy organization Facilitation Program By Invitation Only Cost: $75 Cost: $45 XX Room: Salon 4 XX Room: Salon A–B XX Room: Salon 3 While anniversaries are teachable This session will provide training This workshop teaches the basics moments to engage the public in and resources for facilitating of project management for history dialogue about the past, they can be dialogue across difference. Drawing professionals—taking projects through a mixed blessing for public historians. on successful models from the the phases of conception, planning, Anniversaries certainly help focus International Coalition of Sites of implementing, and closing—and offers public attention on history: journalists Conscience, this workshop will allow a preview of the newest component write articles; films and publications attendees to experience specific of our well-received program—an are produced; local events are planned; techniques designed to engage visitors eight-hour “AASLH Introduction and tourism funding, sponsorships and and also address practical issues of to Project Management” course grants can attract much-needed new implementing dialogue programs—from offered completely online to history resources for public history projects. A marketing to staff buy-in. professionals, available in November growing literature on historical memory Chair: Sarah Blannett Pharaon, Program 2011 through the AASLH website. and commemorations has increased Director, North America, International Chair: Steven Hoskins, Project Manager, Coalition of Sites of Conscience, New York, NY academic analysis of how anniversaries Project Management for History Professionals, AASLH, Nashville, TN affect public understanding of historical events. Public historians not Preserving, Restoring, and only study past events, but also help Managing the Historic The Case of the Unidentified shape and direct current anniversaries Landscape Photograph as participants rather than observers, Cost: $75 Cost: $45 as promoters rather than critics, as XX Location: Maymont XX Room: Salon 1–2 mediators rather than experts. As Whether your landscape is 1-acre or Identified photographs have greater historians we may focus on national 100, the fundamentals of landscape research, historical, and possibly financial impact, political process and the preservation philosophy, standards, and value than unidentified photographs. past, but the public we work with is guidelines should apply. The workshop, Workshop attendees will improve their often more interested in local stories, held on the grounds of Maymont, visual literacy skills for “reading” personal meanings, and connections introduces a systematic approach photographs and interpreting their to present-day issues. The resulting from documentation and assessment meaning. Attendees will learn how to commemorations often produce to planning appropriate treatment or apply their improved skills to unidentified unexpected consequences despite restoration and ongoing management. photographs to obtain a more complete the best intentions to plan carefully, Projects demonstrating the process will identification of an image. involve historians, and educate public be presented and attendees’ special Chair: Lois Hamill, C.A., University Archivist audiences with the best scholarship challenges discussed. and Assistant Professor, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY available. As part of the CEO Forum, Chair: Peggy M. Singlemann, Director of Laura Roberts will lead a wrap-up Horticulture, Maymont Foundation, Richmond, discussion on the principles of the VA; Beate A. Jensen, Buildings and Grounds Engaging Young Children Preservation Supervisor, Gari Melchers Home in Understanding and 2010 CEO Forum, “The Winds of and Studio at Belmont, University of Mary Opportunity.” Sponsored by Bryan and Washington, Fredericksburg, VA; Will Rieley, Remembering the Past Jordan Consulting RLA, President, Rieley and Associates, Cost: $45 Charlottesville, VA Chair: Barbara Franco, Executive Director, XX Room: Salon 6–7 Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Young children are a growing audience Commission, Harrisburg, PA in museums today and history museums are thinking about how to help this audience connect to the past.

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A brief overview of cognitive theory Field Services Alliance Meeting Thinking Critically About will provide a framework for discussion Cost: Free Exhibition Interactives and create a context for hands-on Preregistration Required Cost: $45 experiences that explore strategies to XX Room: Salon 1–2 XX Room: Salon C–D engage children in connecting to the Members and interested colleagues of Developing an effective exhibition past. Experiences will focus on the role FSA will gather to receive an update on interactive requires focus, compelling of objects and storytelling as tools for a variety of issues facing local grassroot content, willing visitors, and lots of program development. history organizations. They will also creativity—but not necessarily a lot Chair: Dr. Sharon Shaffer, Executive Director, receive an update of the Field Services Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center, of money. In this hands-on workshop Washington, DC; Rebecca Lawrence, Museum Manual. Visit www.aaslh.org/FSA for participants will think critically about Educator, Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage more information. interactives, discuss the stages in the Center, Pennsburg, PA; Michaelree Squire, Chair: Laura Casey, Coordinator, Museum development process, and apply their Education Director, Dumbarton House, Services Program, Texas Historical knowledge in small group activities. Washington, DC Commission, Austin, TX Chair: Tim Grove, Chief of Education, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC; StEPs Curriculum Train- Problem Solving and Skill Sets: Scott Alvey, Director of the Design Studio, the-Trainer Producing a Successful Historic Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY Cost: Free Clothing Exhibit Walking Through History, Preregistration Required Cost: $45 XX Room: Salon C–D XX Room: Salon 3 Honoring Sacred Stories This workshop consists of StEPs This workshop combines a case study Cost: $45 curriculum training for staff and of a successful exhibit of 18th- to XX Location: Offsite representatives of state and regional 20th-century wedding dresses at Participants will study the impact of museum associations, field service the New Castle (Delaware) Historical unacknowledged racial history and offices, and other service organizations. Society with a lecture/demonstration learn about a community-wide process Chair: Linda Norris, Riverhill, Treadhill, NY of dressing a military uniform and to heal its legacy. This interactive woman’s dress of the Civil War workshop will explore the nationally era—from private collections—on recognized Hope in the Cities 1:30–5 pm appropriate mannequin forms. reconciliation project in Richmond, Chair: Colleen Callahan, Co-owner, The VA, which Gov. Tim Kaine says has Workshops Costume and Textile Specialists, Richmond, “provided a map for the future.” Bus VA; Michael Connolly, Director, New Castle departs at 1 pm. Historical Society, New Castle, DE; Nancy Chair: Sylvester Turner, Director of Dusty Boxes—Undiscovered Lowden, Special Programs Coordinator, Reconciliation Programs, Hope in the Cities, Stories: Bring Your Archives to Maymont Foundation, Richmond, VA; Newbold Richmond, VA Light Richardson, Co-owner, The Costume and Textile Specialists, Richmond, VA Cost: $45 XX Room: Salon 6–7 Is your historical institution challenged to find interesting and relevant museum products that are anchored in your archival holdings? This workshop will Pattie Anderson foster collaboration, teach unique research methodology, and help you dust off old boxes to breathe new life into your programming and storyline. Chair: Françoise B. Bonnell, Director, U.S. Army Women’s Museum, Fort Lee, VA; Ronald Bingham, Collections Manager, U.S. Army Women’s Museum, Fort Lee, VA; Tracy Bradford, Museum Education Specialist, U.S. Army Women’s Museum, Fort Lee, VA; Dove Brown, Museum Operations Specialist, U.S. Army Women’s Museum, Fort Lee, VA; Amanda Strickland, Operations Specialist/ Archivist, U.S. Army Women’s Museum, Fort Lee, VA

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7–8:15 am 8:30–9:45 am attendees. Bring current resume and sample cover letter. Visitors’ Voices Affinity Group Concurrent Sessions Chair: Thomas M. Costello, Principal, Cultural Resources Management Group, Reston, Breakfast VA; Patricia E. Williams, Principal, Cultural Cost: $30 Connecting to the Future: Resources Management Group, Mt. Ranier, Preregistration Required Statewide Disaster Preparedness MD XX Room: Madison Planning Start your day by meeting others XX Room: Capitol Incorporating Visitor Input to who are interested in visitor surveys, As part of their Connecting to Create Meaningful Marketing program evaluation, and other ways Collections Statewide Planning Messages museums can include visitors’ thoughts Grants, many states began the process XX Room: Salon C and opinions in their long range of developing or, in some cases, In order for collections and sites of planning and daily decision-making. updating statewide disaster plans. In commemoration to be meaningful, Hear Scott Harris, Director of the James this session, statewide planning and relevant, and attractive for both new Monroe Museum and Memorial Library, implementation grant representatives and repeat visitors, visitor feedback speak about the ins and outs of visitor will discuss their approaches to disaster must be incorporated into meaningful, research at his site. Open to all meeting planning at the institutional and relevant, and attractive messages. attendees. statewide level. What’s important to visitors? How Chair: Conny Graft, Principal, Conny C. Graft Chair: Gina Minks, Imaging and Preservation can museums communicate more Research and Evaluation, Williamsburg, VA Service Manager, Amigos Library Services, strategically? Dallas, TX; Kathleen Craughwell-Varda, Project Manager, Conservation ConneCTion, Chair: debb Wilcox, Director, Evaluation, Center Connecticut State Library, Hartford, CT; for Nonprofit Management, Nashville, TN; 8:30–9:45 am Leigh Grinstead, Digital Services Consultant, Hillary Hardwick, Vice President of Marketing LYRASIS, Denver, CO Communications, Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, GA; Laura Wolf, Director of Marketing, Educators and Interpreters Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA Breakfast Roundtable The End of PowerPoint Cost: $30 XX Room: Monroe Interpreting Divergent Voices Preregistration Required Ever wondered why museums strive to and Challenging Narratives serve visitors with different learning XX Room: Salon 4 XX Room: Salon A styles, yet conference sessions are full Begin the annual meeting at this How does your site interpret the of chairs and word-filled PowerPoints engaging breakfast where you can hard stuff of history? Presenting filling the screen? Wish you had the network with your peers in the field complex stories and issues can offer nerve to submit something different of education and interpretation. Mark more authentic and compelling for next year’s conferences? Come join Howell, who has worked at Colonial visitor experiences. Panelists offer us as we explore session techniques Williamsburg and the American Civil useful strategies for integrating ranging from pecha kucha to hands-on War Center and is now Principal of diverse perspectives and addressing interactives reflecting learning theories Howell Consulting, will challenge us challenging topics, such as slavery at use in museums today. to reflect on taking risks and pushing in colonial New England, the Native Chair: Linda Norris, Managing Partner, boundaries in our work. He’ll start us American experience in Virginia, thinking about Commemoration and Riverhill, Treadwell, NY; Susie Wilkening, Senior Consultant and Curator of Museum African American servitude in the Jim Remembrance by leading a conversation Audiences, Reach Advisors, Quincy, MA Crow South, and GLBT issues. on assessing and minimizing the risks Co-Chairs: Joanna Arrieta, Manager of Historic of interpreting the past. Finding Your Way on the Career Houses, Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, Chair: Kyle McKoy, Director of Education, GA, and Dale Wheary, Director, Historical Arizona Historical Society, Tempe, AZ Path Collections and Programs, Maymont, XX Room: Salon 6–7 Richmond, VA; Elizabeth O’Leary, Associate Looking to make a career change? Curator of American Art, Virginia Museum of Finding yourself out of a job when you Fine Art, Richmond, VA; Dr. Jennifer Pustz, Museum Historian, Historic New England, least expected it? Trying to get into Boston, MA; Buck Woodward, Manager the field and can’t find an open door? of American Indian Initiative, Colonial This session will help you move forward Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA at whatever point you find yourself. Individual counseling for session

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Mementos and Tributes Worth, TX; Patrick Grandy, Marketing and 10:45 am–12 pm Communications Manager, Zippo/Case Visitors XX Room: Salon 2 Center, Bradford, PA The phenomenon of members of the ✩✩✩ public leaving tribute artifacts is Opportunities for Civil War Data Keynote Address spreading from memorials to historic cemeteries and other historic sites. This 150 XX Room: Convention Center B15 session explores how diverse historical XX Room: Salon D entities deal with the collections, Civil War Data 150 is a collaborative political, and public relations issues effort to share and connect Civil War raised by this aspect of an increasingly related data across local, state, and federal institutions. The project will participatory culture. Adam Goodheart utilize Linked Open Data to find and Chair: Klydie D. Thomas, Manager, Museum Certification, U.S. Army Center of Military create connections between archives, History, Washington, DC; Robert Dalessandro, increasing the discovery of these Chief of U.S. Military History, U.S. Army resources by researchers and the Center for Military History, Fort Lesley J. general public alike. McNair, DC; Ian Kerrigan, Exhibition Manager, National September 11th Memorial and Chair: Mark Harvey, Archivist of Michigan, Museum, New York, NY; Bob Sonderman, Michigan Historical Center, Lansing, MI; Adam Goodheart Acting Regional Curator, Museum Resource Kathy Jordan, Digital Initiatives and Web Center, National Capitol Region, National Services Manager, Library of Virginia, ✩✩✩ Richmond, VA; Scott Nesbit, Associate Park Service, Lanover, MD; Helen Stiefmiller, Sponsored in part by funding from the Director, Digital Scholarship Lab, University of Collections Manager, Oklahoma City National Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Memorial and Museum, Oklahoma City, OK Richmond, Richmond, VA

New Beginnings with NEH State Policy Responses for 12–1:15 pm Support State-Owned Historic Sites XX Room: Salon B XX Room: Jefferson Luncheons Come learn about support available State governments are facing from NEH for museums and unprecedented budgetary pressures Corporate History Luncheon historical organizations, including due to the economic recession. Forced to raise revenue and reduce costs, Cost: $35 special initiatives and funding Preregistration Required trends. Emphasis will be on smaller many states have targeted state-owned XX Room: Hilton Garden Inn institutions. Presenters include NEH historic resources for reduced hours or outright closure. This session highlights Join the Corporate History Museum and program officers as well as grant Archives Affinity Group for lunch and recipients. recent research on five states whose innovative policy responses deserve meet other professionals who work in Chair: Andrea Anderson, Senior Program the corporate history field. Hear from Officer, Office of Challenge Grants, National discussion. Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, Chair: Donna Ann Harris, Principal, Heritage Bryan Green, director of preservation, DC; Elizabeth Joffrion, Senior Program Officer, Consulting, Inc., Philadelphia, PA; Alexander Commonwealth Architects, about the National Endowment for the Humanities, Balloon, Consultant, Heritage Consulting, Inc., preservation of the historic Miller and Washington, DC; Kathy Mulvaney, Senior Philadelphia, PA; Jan Grimes, Director, Illinois Rhoads department store building, Program Officer, Division of Public Programs, Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield, IL National Endowment for the Humanities, once the largest department store in Washington, DC the south (now the Hilton Garden Inn). The mixed-use project preserved the 9:45–10:45 am Operation and Commemoration iconic structure and commemorates Models for Corporate Museums the leadership roll Miller and Rhoads Morning Refreshment Break played in the Richmond retail scene XX Room: Salon 1 in Exhibit Hall from 1885 until 1989. How exactly does a corporate museum Chair: Gregory Vadney, Director, The Stickley work and how does it approach First-Time Attendee Reception Museum, L. and J.G. Stickley and Company, commemorative events? Panelists Manilus, NY will shed light on their formulas of Cost: Free operation and innovative approaches to Preregistration Required Small Museums Luncheon commemorating special milestones for XX Room: Salon 5 Cost: $35 their respective companies including First-time meeting attendees are invited Preregistration Required the King Ranch, the Zippo/Case Visitor to attend a special reception in their X Center, and American Airlines/C. R. honor to meet new colleagues and learn X Room: Salon 4 The majority of museums in the Smith Museum. tips for getting the most out of their United States are considered small Chair: Toni L. Nagel, Director, Visitor Program annual meeting experience. Sponsored Services, King Ranch, Inc., Kingsville, by the AASLH Mentor Committee. and include historic house museums, TX; William Flynt, Development Director, history museums, art museums, and American Airlines/C.R. Smith Museum, Ft. historic sites. Enjoy a meal with your

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12–1:15 pm continued… small museum colleagues. And be Challenges Facing Collaborative U.S. Army Artillery Museum, Ft. Sill, OK; inspired by Katarina Spears, former Myers Brown, Curator of Extension Services, Commemorations Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN; director, The Museum of Edgar Allen XX Room: Salon A Laurence Munnikhuysen, III, Collector/ Poe in Richmond as she shares the History professionals will soon be Researcher, Williamsburg, VA; Laura A. story of one small museum’s successful commemorating three significant Sedicino, Curator, Legacy Museum on Main Street, LaGrange, GA commemoration, bringing their story events: the sesquicentennial of the to new audiences despite their limited American Civil War, the centennial resources. of Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, and Educator’s Showcase Chair: Stacy Klingler, Assistant Director, Local the centennial of World War I. This XX Room: Salon 3 History Services, Indiana Historical Society, In this networking session, educators Indianapolis, IN panel examines how these events and others can be commemorated through from historic sites, museums, and collaborative efforts. cultural institutions share innovative educational programs that have helped 12–2:45 pm Chair: The Honorable Don W. Wilson, Ph.D., President and CEO, Woodrow Wilson them meet mission and visitors’ needs. Presidential Library and Museum, Staunton, All conference attendees are invited to Directors’ Luncheon VA; Frank J. Aucella, Executive Director, talk with program facilitators and learn XX Room: Salon 5 Woodrow Wilson House, Washington, DC; how their best practices can be adapted Directors and CEOs of organizations Frederic Castier, Assistant Controller General of Military Force, Nauroy, France; Jerry for any size museum. Sponsored by of all sizes are invited to lunch for L. Hester, Historian, Winston-Salem, NC; the AASLH Educators and Interpreters networking and discussion. Following Dr. James I. “Bud” Robertson, Jr., Alumni Affinity Group. Distinguished Professor of History, Virginia lunch, John Durel will lead a discussion Chair: Tobi Voigt, Director of Education, Polytechnic Institute and State University, on Social Entrepreneurship: Leading Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI Blacksburg, VA through Crisis and Embracing Change, to examine and develop strategies How Small Museums Can Use for using entrepreneurial concepts Developing History Leaders @ SHA: How You Can Prepare What Visitors Studies Has to and methods to advance historical Offer organizations and the field of state and XX Room: Salon 1 XX Room: Capitol local history. Craving that creative discourse or This session will focus on how smaller Chair: D. Steven Elliott, Executive Director considering attending the SHA and CEO, Minnesota Historical Society, leadership program and want to learn history museums can benefit from St. Paul, MN; John Durel, Organizational more? Potential attendees and alumni the results of visitor studies. It is not 2 Consultant, Qm /Durel Consulting Partners, join graduates as they share situations intended as a “how to” do evaluations, Baltimore, MD from their work and how the SHA but rather an exploration of how the experience prepared them, as leaders, information gathered from these studies can be practically applied to 1:30–2:45 pm to handle them. Learn first-hand why SHA is an excellent way to train a the development and modification leader. of exhibitions and programs. The Concurrent Sessions presentations will include both general Chair: Laura Minzes, Deputy Director of Historic Sites, Structures, and Land, information and specific case studies. Beyond Colonial: Expanding Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites, Chair: Janice Klein, Consultant, Stories, Promoting Revitalization Indianapolis, IN; Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, EightSixSix Consulting, Tempe, AZ; Kathy XX Room: Jefferson CEO, Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME; Donna Alcaine, Manager of Historical Tours and Sack, Independent Museum Consultant, Interpretation, Maymont Foundation, Learn about a county-wide public Naperville, IL; Scott M. Stroh, III, Executive Richmond, VA; Steve Yalowitz, Ph.D., Senior history project that challenged Director, Milwaukee County Historical Society, Research Associate, Institute for Learning eighty history organizations to think Milwaukee, WI Innovation, Edgewater, MD beyond the Colonial era and promote revitalization in their communities. The Do’s and Don’ts of Working New Beginnings: Historic House Hear about the collaborative that with Private Collectors and Museums Adapt for the Future inspires historic sites and organizations Researchers XX Room: Salon C to work together on thematic tours and XX Room: Monroe After a decade of decline and the advocacy projects. Private collectors and researchers recent recession, many historic house Chair: Donna Ann Harris, Principal, Heritage visiting your museum often seem to museums are struggling to remain Consulting, Inc., Philadelphia, PA; Alexander sustainable. In response, some Balloon, Consultant, Heritage Consulting, Inc., be time-consuming and unwanted Philadelphia, PA; Jill Hall, Senior Preservation distractions. This session will present developed collaborative partnerships, Planner, Delaware County Planning proven methods used by three curators identified community needs, and Department, Media, PA; A. Richard Paul, and one collector for turning these initiated innovative new programs to Chair, Delaware County Heritage Commission, visitors into an invaluable resource for broaden their constituencies. This Broomhall, PA collections work, exhibits, publishing, session details real-life strategies with and advertising for your institution. concrete examples and will evaluate Chair: Gordon A. Blaker, Director/Curator, their successes and failures. Sponsored

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by the AASLH Historic House Museums online generation, and also provides Washington, DC; Thompson Mayes, Deputy Affinity Group. opportunities to engage and educate General Counsel, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC; Kenneth C. Chair: Kendra Dillard, Director of Exhibits, past, current, and potential visitors. Turino, Manager of Community Engagement Capital District, California State Parks, This session highlights best practices and Exhibitions, Historic New England, Sacramento, CA; Sarah Jencks, Director of and uncovers how institutions can Boston, MA Educational Programming, Ford’s Theatre Society, Washington, DC; Ron M. Potvin, effectively use low-resource social Assistant Director and Curator, John Nicholas media methods to creatively engage Connecting to Collections: Tools Brown Center for Public Humanities audiences. You Can Use and Cultural Heritage, Brown University, Chair: Colleen Dilenscheider, Nonprofit and XX Room: Salon C Providence, RI Museum Blogger, Los Angeles, CA; Rebecca Martin, Volunteer and Tour Coordinator, As part of their Connecting to Small Museum Resources: National Archives, Washington, DC Collections Statewide Planning Grants, AASLH Online Community and many states developed tools and techniques that are available to other Beyond 2:45–3:45 pm groups. Representatives of statewide XX Room: Salon 6–7 projects will discuss their tools, how The AASLH Small Museums Committee Afternoon Refreshment Break they were developed, and tell you where recently launched a new way to interact to find them. with your peers across the country, the in Exhibit Hall Chair: Thomas F.R. Clareson, Senior Small Museums Online Community. Consultant for New Initiatives, LYRASIS, Discover the thinking behind the Westerville, OH; Wendy Franklin, Manager of community’s development; find out 4–5:15 pm Museum Services, Archaeology, History, and how the committee envisions its use by Museums Division, California State Parks, Concurrent Sessions Sacramento, CA; Leigh Grinstead, Digital the field; and participate in a “firepit” Services Consultant, LYRASIS, Denver, CO; conversation about great resources. Christine Wiseman, Preservation Services Chair: Stacy Klingler, Assistant Director, Local Adopting Technology: Manager, Georgia Archives, Morrow, GA; History Services, Indiana Historical Society, Challenges and Predictions Paula Work, Registrar, Maine State Museum, Indianapolis, IN; Bob Beatty, Vice President Augusta, ME X for Programs, AASLH, Nashville, TN X Room: Monroe Staying current with technology is a daunting prospect. It requires Hey! Voices of Remembrance Transforming Organizations careful thought and tough decisions. Come From Outside Museums Through Community Panelists and audience will discuss XX Room: Salon 2 Involvement the challenges and constraints of Voices of memory frequently come from XX Room: Salon D technology adoption and consider new the world outside our museums. Want Community collaboration and advocacy technologies on the horizon. Special to hear what the world outside thinks is essential to the health of a small emphasis will be given to the New about us? A panel of individuals from museum. Small museums can Media Consortium’s Horizon Report, outside the field and their museum transform their role in the community 2010 Museum Edition. counterparts examine how successful and increase their relevancy by Chair: Tim Grove, Chief of Education, collaboration can empower members going beyond their four walls and Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, of our communities to be leaders of partnering with other organizations or Washington, DC; Mike Frohlich, Multimedia public remembrance. businesses. They can strengthen their Developer/Web Manager, State Historical Chair: Gregory Vadney, Director, The Stickley Society of North Dakota, Bismarck, ND; Museum, L. and J.G. Stickley, Manilus, NY; standing in communities through civic Matthew MacArthur, Director, New Media engagement. Gordon Blaker, Director, U.S. Army Artillery Department, Smithsonian National Museum Museum, Ft. Sill, OK; Mike Danial, Corporate Chair: Jeanne Schultz Angel, Executive of American History, Washington, DC; Chad Historian, L. and J.G. Stickley, Manilus, NY Director, Lombard Historical Society, Wollerton, Web Director, Monticello, Thomas Lombard, IL; Carol Bowman, Executive Jefferson Foundation, Charlottesville, VA Director, Prince George Regional Heritage History in the Media Center, Prince George, VA; Tamara Closing a House Museum: From XX Room: Salon 1 Hemmerlein, Hoosier Heritage Alliance Panelists, including a film producer, Coordinator, Indiana Historical Society, Lemons to Lemonade publisher, and state film commissioner Indianapolis, IN; Terry Thiessen, President, XX Room: Salon D New Holstein Historical Society, New If you are considering closing a historic will discuss the challenges and Holstein, WI house or already made the decision, opportunities that come with this session is for you. Learn how to treating history subjects in various Using Social Media to Engage turn this potential public relations, media, weighing accuracy against Audiences in Museums and preservation, and legal nightmare into entertainment value, the alchemy of History Organizations a successful preservation solution. We choosing projects, and using media XX Room: Salon B will explore the legal considerations and to “start the conversation” about a Social media is a critical offer practical steps/options for sites particular piece of history. communication tool that keeps and their collections. Chair: Erin Carlson Mast, Director, President history organizations relevant to the Lincoln’s Cottage, Washington, DC; Brian Falk, Chair: James Vaughan, Consultant, Executive, The American Film Company and

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Producer of The Conspirator, Santa Monica, discourse and how host museums CA; Rita McClenny, Film Commissioner of address controversial issues openly. Virginia, Richmond, VA; Jon Sisk, Editor, Chair: Carol Harsh, Director, Museum on Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, MD Main Street, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibits Service, Washington, DC; Melissa Immigration, Civil Rights, and Davis, Director, Tennessee Community Public Memory History Program, Humanities Tennessee, Richmond N ational Battlefield Park Nashville, TN; Mary Gregory, Volunteer, Blount XX Room: Salon 5 County Historical Museum, Townsend, TN; Opinion surveys show a pressing need Jean Wortman, Program Officer, Maryland Shelton House for productive dialogue on the difficult Humanities Council, Baltimore, MD questions immigration and migration raise. What might be achieved Small Museums, Big Impact “You Are There”: A Radical by placing these dialogues in the XX Room: Salon A Approach to Exhibition context of immigration and civil rights Representatives from three small Development history, as interpreted by local history museums will share their successful XX Room: Capitol museums? Explore how historic sites experiences in partnering with local The Indiana Historical Society’s You can build understanding, rather than organizations, serving as models of how Are There experiences provide an reinforce divides. a small museum can have a significant innovative and engaging framework Chair: Sarah Blannett Pharaon, Program impact on its local community. Then for institutions wanting to animate Director, North American, International the floor will be opened so that Coalition Sites of Conscience, New York, NY; archival collections. Through the Janeen Bryant, Vice President, Education, audience members can share their use of innovative technology, IHS is Levine Museum of the New South, Charlotte, own experiences with community developing experiences where guests NC; Annie Polland, Vice President of involvement. walk through and into a historic image Education, Lower East Side Tenement Chair: Ken Hickman, Director, Penn State recreated in 3-D and staffed by first- Museum, New York, NY All-Sports Museum, University Park, PA; Kat person interpreters. Burkhart, Executive Director and Curator, Inspiring the Next Generation: Carnegie Museum of Montgomery County, Chair: Trina Nelson Thomas, Senior Director, Crawfordsville, IN; Callie Hawkins, Curator Public Programs, Indiana Historical Society, Adding Value and Outreach to of Education, President Lincoln’s Cottage, Indianapolis, IN; Jeff Mills, Director, Museum Education Programs Washington, DC; Paul Katz, Ph.D., Principal, Exhibitions Design and Production, Indiana PRIAM, Panhandle, TX Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN; Eloise XX Room: Salon B Scroggins, Director, Exhibitions Research As teachers are increasingly challenged and Development, Indiana Historical Society, to meet federal and state mandates Three Historic Houses of Indianapolis, IN; Daniel T. Shockley, Director, and changing assessment methods, Worship in Richmond: St. Interpretation, Indiana Historical Society, museums have a unique opportunity to John’s, Beth Ahabah, and Sixth Indianapolis, IN create innovative programming that will Mount Zion support teachers and students, meet XX Room: Salon 6–7 5:45–6:30 pm educational requirements, and inspire The session will present the histories a new generation of lifelong learners. of three Richmond houses of worship, Reception: Developing History This session will present ideas for and tell how these congregations experiential learning opportunities for have navigated through the world Leaders @SHA teachers and students in the museum, of museums, tourism, historic Cost: Free classroom, and online. preservation, collections management, Preregistration Required Chair: Raney Bench, Curator of Education, marketing, and networking while XX Room: Salon 4 Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME; Beth Cooper, promoting Virginia’s great history. Using If you aspire to be a better leader in Director of Education, Dr. Samuel D. Harris your institution, community, and the National Museum of Dentistry, Baltimore, techniques such as reenactments, MD; Gennie Slobe, Programs Coordinator, heritage tourism, genealogy, and field of public history, join SHA alumni Homestead Museum, City of Industry, CA savvy networking, the three panelists and faculty to learn about this unique will describe how they balance being professional development program. Remembering Even When It a house of worship with tourism. Hosted by the SHA Alumni Affinity Hurts Partnering with the Richmond Group. XX Room: Jefferson Metropolitan Convention and Visitors How can history museums address Bureau, the session will offer a 6:30–9 pm controversial issues and build bridges template or model for other religious between diverse groups? Working with institutions to follow. state humanities councils and the Chair: Benjamin Ross, Church Historian, Evening Event: History and Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street, Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church, Richmond, Hospitality—Virginia Style VA; David B. Farris, Executive Director, Beth small museums often tackle difficult, Ahabah Museum and Archives, Richmond, VA; divisive issues. Learn how councils Kay C. Peninger, Executive Director, St. John’s provide expert advice for creating civic Church Foundation, Richmond, VA

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7–8:15 am Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Panelists will discuss the current Williamsburg, VA; David Janssen, Vice thinking and opportunities for President of Collections and Interpretation, Breakfast Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI; Trina sustainable collection environments Nelson Thomas, Senior Director, Public in historic buildings and one Historic House Museums Programs, Indiana Historical Society, site’s experience of dealing with Indianapolis, IN environmental issues and the solutions Cost: $30 they found to tighten their controls. Preregistration Required Caching in on History: How to Chair: Kathy Garrett-Cox, Manager of XX Room: Salon 5 Capitalize on Geo-Caching at Historical Collections, Maymont Foundation, Join historic house museum Richmond, VA; Laura DeNormandie-Bass, professionals for an engaging Your Historic Site Chief Curator, Texas Historical Commission, discussion of current issues. In XX Room: Salon 3 Austin, TX; Michael Henry, Principal November 2010, the National Trust for Geo-caching is a high-tech game played Engineer and Architect, Watson and Henry throughout the world by over three Associates, Bridgeton, NJ; Wendy Jessup, Historic Preservation entered into an Conservator, Wendy Jessup and Associates, innovative partnership with Arcadia, million experience seekers equipped Inc., Arlington, VA a start-up nonprofit, to revision its with GPS devices. Even the Boy Scouts flagship historic site, Woodlawn, as and Girl Scouts award geo-caching Hands-On vs. Hands-Off: The merit badges! This panel will explore a center for sustainable agriculture. Rembrandt Rule Revisited Hear Dr. Laurie Ossman, Director of the exciting world of geo-caching and XX Room: Salon B Woodlawn and Frank Lloyd Wright’s demonstrate how history organizations Panelists will explore real-world Pope-Leighey House in Alexandria, can capitalize on the geo-caching applications of how collections VA, as she describes this partnership. phenomenon. management policies, preservation, Farming is certainly not the silver bullet Chair: Scott M. Stroh, III, Executive Director, and interactive education can be solution for every historic site, but Milwaukee County Historical Society, Milwaukee, WI; Sarah Miller, Regional brought together for the best possible Woodlawn’s story offers some thought- Director-Northeast Region, Florida Public visitor experience. Implications for provoking ideas about innovation, Archaeology Network, St. Augustine, FL; accreditation when violating the tradition, and what it means to “get Shannon O’Donnell, Senior Database Analyst, Rembrandt Rule will also be explored back to your roots.” Florida Division of Historical Resources, Tallahassee, FL as we embark on a new era in historic Chair: Kendra Dillard, Director of Exhibits, house museum management. Capital District State Museums and Historic Parks, California State Parks, Sacramento, CA Dinosaur or Not? Are Local Chair: Michelle Zupan, Curator, Watson- Brown Foundation/Hickory Hill, Thomson, Historical Societies Headed for GA; Erik Holland, Curator of Education, State Extinction? Historical Society of North Dakota, Bismarck, 8:30–9:45 am XX Room: Salon 4 ND; Ron M. Potvin, Assistant Director and Are local historical societies in danger Curator, John Nicholas Brown Center for Concurrent Sessions Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, of becoming irrelevant dinosaurs? Are Brown University, Providence, RI; Donald P. we ignoring that meteor headed our Zuris, Head Curator, Corpus Christi Museum 21st-Century Roundtable for way? In a lively point/counterpoint with of Science and History, Corpus Christi, TX Museum Professionals audience participation, we’ll brainstorm XX Room: Salon 6 some hard truths about the decline and NHD Works: The Power Museums and the museum profession explore some ways forward. Come ready of National History Day’s are changing. What are these changes to be challenged and challenging! Evaluation Findings and how should museum professionals Co-Chairs: Linda Norris, Managing Partner, XX Room: Salon C Riverhill, Treadwell, NY and David Grabitske, prepare themselves? Join colleagues National History Day works. This is to discuss issues including: visions for Manager of Outreach Services, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul. MN now a proven fact. Learn about the the future of museums, preparing both findings of a groundbreaking evaluation professionally and personally for these of the effectiveness of NHD on student changes, and how various levels and Finding a Sustainable House Museum Environment achievement and interest in history. generations of museum leadership are Then, hear what an executive director XX Room: Salon 2 meeting these changes. of a history institution and a teacher are This workshop will present how to Chair: Kat Burkhart, Executive Director/ doing with these findings. Curator, Carnegie Museum of Montgomery navigate the choices of balancing Chair: Dr. Cathy Gorn, Executive Director, County, Crawfordsville, IN; Patricia Brooks, collections needs and sustainability for Manager of African-American Initiatives, National History Day, College Park, MD; Rory museum environmental management. Dippold, Social Studies Department Chair and

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NHD School Advisor, Mary Ellen Henderson from these groups for a wide variety of Church History Department-LDS Church, Salt Middle School, Falls Church, VA; Janet projects for small museums. Two former Lake City, UT; William Slaughter, Archivist, Gallimore, Executive Director, Idaho State museum directors and a conservator Church History Library-LDS Church, Salt Lake Historical Society, Boise, ID City, UT with extensive fundraising experience Programming for Pivotal will provide information on how to identify appropriate grant programs as 8:30 am–1:15 pm Moments in History well as, how to match a small museum’s XX Room: Capitol needs to grantors’ guidelines. AwardsPalooza: Movie Fest Engaging students in commemorations Chair: Janice Klein, Consultant, EightSixSix provides an opportunity to dive deep Consulting, Tempe, AZ; Ann Barton Brown, 2011 into a specific moment in time. Ann Barton Brown Company, West Chester, XX Room: Madison Whether your focus is the War of 1812 PA; Susan Mathisen, SAM Fundraising Drop into the Awards Movie Lounge to or the events of 9/11, this session will Solutions Corp, New York, NY; Larry Paarlberg, enjoy selections of history films that Director, General Lew Wallace Study and offer unique programming ideas that Museum, Crawfordsville, IN have won the AASLH Award of Merit. A allow students and teachers to discover full schedule will be posted on the door moments in history that changed the Taking a Seat for Justice: The of the meeting room and at the AASLH registration desk. way people think about the world. 1960 Baton Rouge Sit-Ins Chair: Kim Popetz, Director of Education, Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum, St. XX Room: Salon D Leonard, MD; Carrie Kotcho, Chief, Education Taking A Seat for Justice is a fifty- 9:45–10:45 am Outreach, Smithsonian National Museum of minute documentary on the events American History, Washington, DC; Kristin surrounding one of the first sit-in Schenning, Director of Education, Maryland Morning Refreshment Break demonstration cases to be argued Historical Society, Baltimore, MD; Abbi in Exhibit Hall Wicklein-Bayne, Interpretive Specialist, before the United States Supreme National Park Service, Annapolis, MD Court. Filmmaker Dr. Rachel Emanuel will screen the film followed Secession and the Confederacy: by a discussion on how the film 10:45 am–12 pm commemorates a group known as The Issues for Local History Sites Concurrent Sessions XX Room: Jefferson/Monroe Southern 16 who organized sit-ins at a drug store, department store, and bus With the 150th anniversary in Activating Places of Memory November 2010, of Lincoln’s election, station in Baton Rouge in protest of XX Room: Salon 4 the United States began a four-year racial segregation laws. People commonly gather at places of commemoration of the Civil War. The Chair: Julia Rose, Director, West Baton Rouge Museum, Port Allen, LA; Dr. Rachel Emanuel, memory looking for insight on how to secession of seven, and subsequently Director, Publications and Electronic Media, move forward. This session will examine four additional, states divided the Southern University Law Center, Baton how places of memory can better nation. Yet, 150 years after these Rouge, LA be utilized to move our visitors from momentous events, many Americans memory to action, and inspire them to still greatly misunderstand secession “There Shall Be a Record Kept work to address issues of contemporary and the coming of the war. This Among You:” Mormon Records importance in their communities. panel will explore ways of interpreting as a Source for Local History secession to the public through the Chair: Bix Gabriel, Deputy Director, XX Room: Salon A International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, use and understanding of primary The LDS (Mormon) Church History New York, NY; Barbara Lau, Director, Pauli source materials and the arguments of Library in Salt Lake City, with more Murray Project, Durham, NC; Yun Lee, Ph.D., secessionists themselves. Sponsored by Director, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, than 250,000 manuscript and Chicago, IL the National Council on Public History. photograph collections representing Chair: Dr. Marty Blatt, Chief of Cultural every U.S. state and most countries Resources/Historian, Boston National Aren’t We Forgetting Something? of the world, is a unique resource for Historical Park, Boston, MA; John Coski, The War of 1812 Bicentennial Director of Library and Research, The Museum historians and others conducting local of the Confederacy, Richmond, VA; James and regional research on non-religious XX Room: Salon 2 W. Loewen, Visiting Professor of Sociology, and religious themes. Using examples The War of 1812 Bicentennial is Catholic University of America, Washington, from the collection, including from the largely forgotten and overshadowed DC; Dwight Pitcaithley, Former Chief Historian, by the Civil War Sesquicentennial, National Park Service, Las Cruces, NM antebellum and post-war South eras, this session will describe how such especially in states below the Mason- Dixon Line. This session will highlight Small Museum–Friendly Grants sources enhance our understanding of local, regional, and national history. what three southern states are doing XX Room: Salon 1 to commemorate this important While smaller museums have been Chair: Gary L. Boatright, Jr., Curator, Historic Sites, Church History Department- American conflict, which is garnering reluctant to apply for grants from LDS Church, Salt Lake City, UT; Melissa more attention in some northern states governmental agencies and private Bingmann, Director of Public History/ and Canada. foundations, there are funds available Assistant Professor, West Virginia University, Chair: Andrew Duppstadt, Assistant Curator Morgantown, WV; Chad Orton, Archivist,

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10:45 am–12 pm continued… of Education, North Carolina Division of Educational Consultant and Principal, in Illinois, and how the Civil War State Historic Sites and Properties, Kinston, Widener Consulting, LLC, Glen Allen, VA affected the make-up of the Supreme NC; Myers Brown, Curator of Extension Court. Services/Chair, Tennessee 1812 Committee, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, IDEA Roundtable Chair: Bruce Ragsdale, Director, Federal TN; Jim Greathouse, Historic Interpreter, XX Room: Jefferson/Monroe Judicial History Office, Federal Judicial Fayetteville Area Transportation and Local Discover the results of AASLH Center, Washington, DC; Matthew Hofstedt, Associate Curator, Office of the Curator, History Museum, Fayetteville, NC; The Internet Digital Encyclopedia Honorable Christopher K. Peace, Delegate, Supreme Court of the United States, Virginia House of Delegates/Virginia 1812 Committee’s (IDEA) National Washington, DC; John A. Lupton, Director Bicentennial Commission, Mechanicsville, VA Endowment for the Humanities of History Programs, Illinois Supreme Court planning grant project researching Historic Preservation Commission, Springfield, Online Encyclopedia Best Practices IL; Jonathan W. White, Assistant Professor, Connecting to Information: Christopher Newport University, Newport How Does Your Institution and Standards. The project News, VA Measure Up? included a survey of existing projects, two summits in Nashville, XX Room: Salon A Remember the Ladies: TN, and a white paper to leverage Commemorating Women’s The national IMLS funded Connecting IDEA towards a concrete long-term to Collections Initiative is an ambitious organizational strategy. Sacrifices, Achievements, and effort to uncover and quantify the most Chair: Douglas E. Barnett, Chief of Staff, Rights significant collections needs throughout University of Texas Libraries, Austin, TX XX Room: Salon 1 the country by focusing on statewide This session looks at recent and surveys and planning projects. Opportunities and Resources upcoming events commemorating Participants in this session will review from IMLS women’s accomplishments in civil rights, including women’s suffrage, the data as well as discover the lessons XX Room: Salon C learned through spotlighted statewide Join IMLS program officers as they women elected to office, and women surveys, focus groups, and the resulting share information about funding leaders, and how a museum can statewide plans. This session will opportunities for museums. successfully present and interpret provide an unprecedented opportunity Information on grant programs, how women’s history in a meaningful and to see how your organization’s to write a more competitive grant, relevant way to the public. preservations concerns compare to and a road map to IMLS resources Chair: Mary A. van Balgooy, Executive these findings. Director, Peerless Rockville Historic will be presented. Participants can Preservation, Ltd., Rockville, MD; Lisa Chair: Ingrid Bogel, Executive Director, ask questions and share their ideas Kathleen Graddy, Deputy Chair and Curator, Conservation Center for Art and Historic about the application and review Division of Political History, Smithsonian Artifacts, Philadelphia, PA; Lee Price, Director process. National Museum of American History, of Development, Conservation Center for Washington, DC; A. Page Harrington, Art and Historic Artifacts, Philadelphia, PA; Chair: Connie Bodner, Ph.D., Senior Executive Director, The Sewall-Belmont House Thomas F. R. Clareson, Senior Consultant for Program Officer, Institute of Museum and Museum, Washington, DC; Katherine New Initiatives, LYRASIS, Philadelphia, PA; and Library Services, Washington, DC; Kane, Director and CEO, Harriet Beecher Bob Horton, Director, Minnesota Historical Linnea Grim, Hunter J. Smith Director Stowe Center, Hartford, CT Society, St. Paul, MN; Kristen Overbeck Laise, of Education and Visitor Programs, Vice President, Collections Care Program, Monticello, The Thomas Jefferson Heritage Preservation, Washington, DC Foundation, Charlottesville, VA; Steve Sustainable Preservation: Shwartzman, Senior Program Officer, Balancing Collections, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Field Services Alliance Presents Washington, DC; Emily Williams, Resources, and the Environment Museum Tips Conservator of Archaeological Materials, XX Room: Salon B XX Room: Salon 3 Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Those who manage the nation’s cultural Williamsburg, VA This no-nonsense session will provide repositories are increasingly interested practical ways of approaching in exploring preservation strategies that preservation planning, training museum Remember the Courts: Using balance preservation quality, cost, and educators to meet teacher needs, Legal Resources in Your Civil environmental impact. This session will board orientation, and collections War Programming explore several projects and training management. There will be four XX Room: Capitol opportunities that have featured presentations plus time for questions. The Civil War sesquicentennial strategies that assist in developing You will leave with practical plans provides an opportunity to bring effective, energy-efficient, and to take back to your organization. new audiences to court-based environmentally sensitive preservation Sponsored by the Field Services public history programs. This measures. Alliance. session will explore how three Chair: Elizabeth Joffrion, Senior Program Chair: Laura Casey, Coordinator, Museum courts faced unprecedented legal Officer, National Endowment for the Services Program, Texas Historical challenges, including the treason Humanities, Washington, DC; Julia Clark, Curator of Collections, Abbe Museum, Commission, Austin, TX; Laura Hortz indictment of Jefferson Davis in Stanton, Director of Preservation Services, Bar Harbor, ME; Leigh Grinstead, Digital Conservation Center for Art and Historic Virginia’s federal court, the false Initiatives Consultant, LYRASIS, Denver, Artifacts, Philadelphia, PA; Heather Widener, imprisonment of anti-war activists CO; Richard L. Kerschner, Director of Preservation and Conservation, Shelburne

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Museum, Shelburne, VT; Ann Lawless, 2:30–3:45 pm especially at small organizations. Executive Director, American Precision Chair: Max A. van Balgooy, Director of Museum, Windsor, VT; Cornelius J. Rusnov, Interpretation and Education, National Architect/Project Coordinator, Commonwealth ✩✩✩ Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, of Pennsylvania, Bureau of Engineering and Plenary Address DC; Randi Korn, Principal, Randi Korn Architecture, Harrisburg, PA and Associates, Alexandria, VA; Alexandra XX Room: Convention Center B15 Rasic, Public Programs Manager, Homestead Museum, City of Industry, CA 12–1:15 pm Collection and Recollection Luncheons XX Room: Salon D An outgrowth of the work of the Objects Dr. Dorothy Cotton Dr. AASLH Membership and and Memory documentary film, this Networking Luncheon session explores issues raised by XX Room: Exhibit Hall the film: how we navigate through a Cost: Free physical world, how we recognize history Open to all, this is your chance to as it is happening, how we make sense check out the latest and greatest of turbulent times, what fundamental products available in the exhibit hall human qualities drive our responses, while grabbing a complimentary lunch. and how things get into museums. Dr. Dorothy Cotton Chair: Jonathan Fein, Independent Educator, Cortlandt Manor, NY Court and Legal History ✩✩✩ Luncheon Sponsored in part by funding from the Connecting to the Public: Cost: $35 Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Outreach and Advocacy for Preregistration Required Collections Care XX Room: Salon 6 XX Room: Salon 3 This affinity group is comprised of 3:45–4 pm As part of their Connecting to individuals working in state legal history Collections Statewide Planning Grants, societies, circuit court libraries, and the Afternoon Break in Foyer many states included an advocacy U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society. element, which included outreach to John O. Peters will speak to the group elected officials, state agencies, and about his current research into the 3:45–5:15 pm the public. This session will review history of the U.S. District Court for the lessons learned in some of these efforts Eastern District of Virginia and how it AwardsPalooza: Movie Fest 2011 and provide advice on how to conduct establishes a model for narrative history similar activities in your state. of courts. XX Room: Madison Drop into the Awards Movie Lounge to Chair: Kristen Overbeck Laise, Vice President, enjoy selections of history films that Collections Care Programs, Heritage Preservation, Washington, DC; Margo Carlock, 1:15–2:15 pm have won the AASLH Award of Merit. Executive Director, Virginia Association A full schedule of films will be posted of Museums, Richmond, VA; Laraine Daly AASLH Meeting of the outside the session room and at the Jones, Museum Collections Manager, Arizona AASLH registration desk. Historical Society, Tucson, AZ; Malinda Membership Horton, Executive Director, Florida Association XX Room: Convention Center B15 of Museums, Tallahassee, FL 4–5:15 pm The Content is Key: Elevating 2 pm Concurrent Sessions the Audio Tour in the Mobile Technology Age Exhibit Hall Closes Beyond Numbers: What Does XX Room: Salon B Success Look Like? Cell phone tours are becoming XX Room: Capitol increasingly popular due to the low cost 2:15–2:30 pm Success is often defined by of set-up and delivery, but they rely on attendance and the bottom line, great content to be truly successful. Afternoon Break but are these the best measures of Learn how to move beyond the traditional performance? This session continues theatrical and didactic audio tour styles the conversation begun at the Kykuit to create captivating and high-value Forum on the merits and pitfalls of content that can be adapted for use on metrics, identifying quantitative and new and evolving mobile technologies. qualitative measures of success, and Chair: Jennifer Richards, Development and the challenges of implementation, Communications Manager, Fairmount Park Art Association, Philadelphia, PA; Lu Olkowski,

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Independent Audio Producer, Brooklyn, to attract visitors. Virginia’s Historic It is the perfect entry-level program NY; Kerrie Hillman, Independent Producer, Richmond Region is exceptionally well- for organizations that do not feel ready Brooklyn, NY positioned to realize a significant gain to participate in other assessment in tourism during the sesquicentennial programs. Join us to hear program Finding Our Future Supporters period. By bringing together museums details and how two organizations have XX Room: Salon 4 and history organizations, along with used StEPs to make improvements. This panel seeks to examine ways tourism marketers and key members of Chair: Cherie Cook, Senior Program Manager, in which museums and historical a diverse community, we strive to tell AASLH, Jefferson City, MO; Lindsey Baker, associations can attract and retain the whole story as no other destination Executive Director, Laurel Historical Society, younger supporters to their organizations. Laurel, MD; Rob Orrison, Historic Site can. “On To Richmond” is now our Manager, Prince William County Historic We will examine benchmarking efforts invitation to the world to visit us during Preservation Division, Dumfries, VA being made to invite, engage, and the sesquicentennial. benefit from the support of the next Chair: Norman Burns, Executive Director, The Ties That Bind: Social generation, in ways that can ensure Maymont Foundation, Richmond, VA; institutional vitality for years to come. Jennifer Carnam, Vice President of Marketing, Space for Success XX Room: Salon C Chair: Dr. William Tramposch, Executive Richmond Metropolitan Convention and Director, Nantucket Historical Association, Visitors Bureau, Richmond, VA; Christy Influence does not end with the people Nantucket, MA; Rick Fink, Education Coleman, President, The American Civil War we know. Through the ties made at Director, Cliveden, Philadelphia, PA; Center at Historic Tredegar, Richmond, VA; S. Waite Rawls, III, President and CEO, The conferences like AASLH, we build an Rebecca Holmquist, Vice President, Visitor organic network that we shape, shapes Experiences, Minnetrista, Muncie, IN; Marjan Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Shirzad, Director of Outreach and Special VA; Dave Ruth, Superintendent Richmond us, and has a life of its own. History is Programs, Nantucket Historical Association, National Battlefield Park, Richmond, VA seldom the work of one, but of many Nantucket, MA; Scott M. Stroh, III, Executive who work together. Understanding how Director, Milwaukee County Historical Society, Programming Outside the networks form, how to use them, and Milwaukee, WI Civil War Box: Connecting what the expected results might be Unconventional Themes to the will enable smarter middle managers No Idea is Too Ridiculous Sesquicentennial to work more efficiently with the few XX Room: Salon 2 XX Room: Salon 1 resources possible. As we look for creative new ways to Don’t think your site can participate Chair: David Grabitske, Manager of Outreach engage audiences with history, what Services, Minnesota Historical Society, St. in Civil War 150 events? Four non- does “being creative” actually look like? Paul, MN; Marian Carpenter, Collections Civil War institutions; The Tracing Can history professionals learn to find Manager, National Civil Rights Museum, Center on Histories and Legacies Memphis, TN; Robbie Davis, Project Director, their creative spirit? The panelists will of Slavery, National Air and Space Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition share their experiences as part of an Museum, International Spy Museum, Service, Washington, DC; Andy Verhoff, Local experiment in creative practice: what History Coordinator, Ohio Historical Society, and Colonial Williamsburg; detail how they learned, what they did (projects Columbus, OH they’re thinking outside their main ranging from a musical finding aid to themes to create programming relating beer with Benjamin Franklin), and why to the Civil War, yet connects to their the process included a conversation 6:30–9:30 pm collection and supports their mission. about “indicators of successful failure.” Chair: Kristin Gallas, Director of Education and Chair: Laura Koloski, Senior Program Public History, The Tracing Center on Histories ✩✩✩ Specialist, Heritage Philadelphia Program, and Legacies of Slavery, Watertown, MA; A A S L H L eadersh i p i N Philadelphia, PA; Laura Keim, Curator, Wyck Jacqueline V. Eyl, Youth Education Director, Historic House and Garden, Philadelphia, International Spy Museum, Washington, DC; History Awards Banquet PA; Kathy McLean, Principal, Independent Mychalene Giampaoli, Educational Specialist, cost: $60 Exhibitions, Berkeley, CA; Kristen Qualls, Family Programs, Smithsonian National Air Exhibit and Program Developer, The Franklin and Space Museum, Washington, DC; Amanda XX Room: Salon E Institute, Philadelphia, PA; Matthew Ohlke, Adult Education Director, International Shoemaker, Director of Digital Collections Spy Museum, Washington, DC; Aaron and Systems, The Historical Society of Wolfe, Production Associate, Educational Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Media Contest Coordinator, Virginia History Day, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, On to Richmond! How Williamsburg, VA

the Former Capital of the University of Richmond Confederacy Transformed a A StEP in the Right Direction: Union Army Battle Cry Into a A Self-Study Program for Tourism Marketing Brand Museums and Sites XX Room: Salon 5 XX Room: Salon A The 150th anniversaries of the StEPs is a self-study program that helps American Civil War and Emancipation small and mid-sized organizations meet national standards, create meaningful provide a unique opportunity for Edward Ayers destinations with Civil War history long-range plans, and build credibility. ✩✩✩

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7:30–8:45 am the Bicentennial legacy? Join two Focusing on Visitors: Training historians, a museum professional, and Frontline Staff and Volunteers Military History/Presidential a National Park Service professional for XX Room: Salon D Sites and Libraries Affinity a provocative look back and forward. History professionals are awash in Groups Joint Breakfast Chair: Charlene Mires, Director and Associate information about how visitors learn Professor of History, Mid-Atlantic Regional Cost: $30 Center for the Humanities at Rutgers- and what guests seek from museum Preregistration Required Camden, Camden, NJ; M. Todd Bennett, visits. Yet many guided experiences XX Room: Capitol Assistant Professor of History, East Carolina fall short of institutions’ goal of being University, Greenville, SC; Ajena C. Rogers, Join these two AASLH affinity groups as visitor-centered. Explore how to train Supervisory Park Ranger, Maggie L. Walker paid and unpaid interpretive staff to they explore the role of the president as National Historic Site, Richmond, VA; commander-in-chief during the War of Barbara Silberman, Independent Museum lead high-quality tours and programs 1812. C. Thomas Chapman, historian Professional, Gloucester, MA that put the needs and interests of of James Madison’s Montpelier, will visitors first. explore Madison’s role in the war Doing the New Biography Chair: Rebecca Martin, Volunteer and Tour Coordinator, National Archives and X and his legacy. Sponsored by James X Room: Salon G Records Administration, Washington, DC; Madison’s Montpelier and the Virginia Three public history projects are Rebecca Furer, Director of Education and Bicentennial of the American War of producing new forms of biography that Interpretation, Connecticut Historical Society, 1812 Commission. are both active and interactive. The Hartford, CT; Trina Nelson Thomas, Indiana panelists will explore how the use of Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN new digital publishing formats to meet 9–10:15 am research and access challenges enables History is [No Longer] Written by new interpretations of biography and the Victors Concurrent Sessions new forms of collaboration, including XX Room: Salon 2 with the users themselves. Winston Churchill’s axiom does not Advocacy for History Chair: Sara B. Bearss, Senior Editor, reflect effective museum interpretation Organizations Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Library of in the 21st century. Discuss innovative Virginia, Richmond, VA; Matthew Gibson, ways of introducing multiple points of XX Room: Salon H Director, Digital Programs, Virginia Foundation AASLH is a leading advocate for for the Humanities, Charlottesville, VA; Susan view into site and exhibit interpretation, increased federal funding for history H. Perdue, Director, Documents Compass, and focus both on visitor benefits organizations. Now more than ever, it is Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, and avoiding potential pitfalls. It is a Charlottesville, VA important that you do your part to help. challenging premise, but well worth the Attend this session to learn about our successes, and find out ways we can work together to preserve and increase funding, strengthen existing national programs, and advance professionalism in the field. Chair: Terry Davis, President and CEO, AASLH, Nashville, TN; Dr. Cathy Gorn, Executive Director, National History Day, College Park, MD; Gail Silberglied, Director of Government Relations and Advocacy, American Association of Museums, Washington, DC

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Legacies of Commemoration Bureau Richmond Metropolitan Convention and Visitors XX Room: Salon B The 1976 Bicentennial had lasting impact on historic sites, their managers, and their interpreters. As we commemorate the Civil War, what can we learn by reflecting on Virginia State Capitol

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effort in making history engaging and art or why? Join industry professionals September 11, 2001, Hurricane relevant. for dialogue ranging from public art Katrina, and the earthquake in Haiti Chair: Mark Howell, Principal, Howell to the legacy and memory of one of will share the challenges they faced Consulting, Williamsburg, VA; Janeen Bryant, America’s “Ten Great Streets.” and what they learned from their Vice President, Education, Levine Museum of Chair: Anedra Wiseman Bourne, Tourism experiences. the New South, Charlotte, NC; Erik Holland, Coordinator, City of Richmond, Richmond, Curator of Education, State Historical Chair: Mary Coughlin, Assistant Professor in VA; Sara Driggs, Author, Richmond, VA; Linda Society of North Dakota, Bismarck, ND; Gary Museum Studies, The George Washington Krinsky, Director of Historic Richmond Tours, Sandling, Vice President of Visitor Program University, Washington, DC; Hugh Shockey, Valentine Richmond History Center, Richmond, and Services, Monticello, Thomas Jefferson Objects Conservator, Smithsonian American VA; Dr. Lauranett Lee, Curator of African Foundation, Charlottesville, VA Art Museum, Washington, DC; Beth Richwine, American History, Virginia Historical Society, Senior Objects Conservator, Smithsonian Richmond, VA; Teresa Roane, Library Manager, National Museum of American History, Microphilanthropy: Microgiving, Museum and White House of the Confederacy, Washington, DC; Catherine Williams, Art Crowdfunding, and New Models Richmond, VA Conservator, Silver Lining Art Conservation, of Fundraising LLC, Austin, TX XX Room: Salon A A New Place for You at AASLH This session will discuss new forms of XX Room: Salon 1 Reinterpreting Remembrance: fundraising, why they’re effective, and Are you still looking for a place to Engaging Audiences in a New what advantages they have over the old belong in the AASLH family? Do you Dialogue About Memory and models. Get real-world examples, and want to get more involved with AASLH, Public Commemoration learn how to get started—how to pick but do not know how to begin? Join XX Room: Salon 3 the right project, launch it, and make it us for a roundtable about proposed Curatorial, education, and new media successful. new affinity groups and help plan for staff at the National Museum of Chair: Bruce Teeple, Independent Consultant, AASLH’s future. Groups proposed American History discuss the evolution Aaronsburg, PA; Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, will include archives, friends groups, of their interpretive strategies to share CEO, Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME; religious sites, cemeteries, and authority and more actively engage Bob Halbruner, Director of Development, institutions that share spaces with non- the public in discussions of memory- Maymont Foundation, Richmond, VA; Sarah history groups. Come prepared to share Handwerger, General Counsel, RightsAssist making and public remembrance. LLC, Bethesda, MD; Jenny Trucano, Client your ideas. Case studies include the museum’s Ambassador, Small Act, McLean, VA Chair: Bethany Hawkins, Program Associate, commemorations of the first and tenth AASLH, Nashville, TN; Terry Jackson, Program Associate, AASLH, Nashville, TN anniversaries of September 11th and Monuments and Memory: recent Civil Rights anniversaries. “America’s Most Beautiful Recovering Culture Through Chair: Amy Bartow-Melia, Director, Boulevard” to Whom? Department of Public Programming, Conversation Smithsonian National Museum of American XX Room: Salon I XX Room: Salon C History, Washington, DC; Dana Allen-Greil, Richmonders—and visitors—travel This panel of conservators will Web Program Manager, Smithsonian National along Monument Avenue and look in Museum of American History, Washington, DC; discuss their experiences responding awe at towering sculptures; but, do Harry Rubenstein, Chair and Curator, Division to disasters and treating salvaged of Political History, Smithsonian National people understand those responsible for artifacts. Conservators who participated Museum of American History, Washington, commissioning and erecting this public in the treatment of material from DC; Christopher Wilson, Director, Program in African American Culture and Daily Programs, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington, DC; Cedric Yeh, Deputy Chair and Associate Curator, Division of Armed Forces, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington, DC Chris Cunningham Safety First: Creating a Safety Training Program for Your Institution XX Room: Monroe Most museums have established collections policies safeguarding artifacts, but few acknowledge their responsibility to protect visitors and staff by instituting effective safety programs. Learn how to develop or strengthen your organization’s safety program. Chair: Tracy Bryan, Site Manager-Virginia American Civil War Center at Tredegar Iron Works House, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond,

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VA; Thomas Hicks, Manager-Building Changes in Funding Models for Operations, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA; Karen Graham Wade, Director, History Organizations Homestead Museum, City of Industry, CA XX Room: Salon D Nonprofit funding models are changing. Susan Raymond, author of Nonprofit 10:15–10:45 am Finance for Hard Times, will present research that elucidates the changes. Morning Break in Foyer Ellen Spear, who as director of Hancock Shaker Village received a $1 million Kresge Foundation grant to pursue 10:45 am–12 pm “transformational projects … to shift [the] business model,” will discuss Concurrent Sessions strategies for putting Raymond’s findings into practice. Bureau Richmond Metropolitan Convention and Visitors 2012 Annual Meeting Chair: John Durel, Organizational Consultant, Qm2/Durel Consulting Partners, Baltimore, Roundtable MD; Susan U. Raymond, Ph.D., Executive The Black History Museum XX Room: Salon I Vice President for Research, Evaluation, and and Cultural Center We want to hear from you! The program Strategic Planning, Changing Our World, Inc., committee for the 2012 AASLH Annual New York, NY; Ellen Spear, Executive Director, Heritage Museums and Gardens, Sandwich, MA Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, wants of this kind of work and raise issues for to hear your ideas for making the next How Do You Use the Collection discussion. meeting better. What did you like about Chair: Bill Adair, Director, Heritage the meeting? What should we have at Your Historic House? Philadelphia Program, Philadelphia, PA; Dr. done differently? Members of the 2012 XX Room: Salon 3 Benjamin Filene, Director of Public History, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Annual Meeting program committee As historic house museums and historic sites begin to become more visitor Greensboro, NC; Laura Koloski, Senior should attend. All meeting attendees Program Specialist, Heritage Philadelphia are welcome. focused, this roundtable discussion Program, Philadelphia, PA Chair: Scott M. Stroh, III, Executive Director, will attempt to find balance between Milwaukee County Historical Society, the interpretation and collections care. Let My Voice Be Heard! Milwaukee, WI; Bob Beatty, Vice President for Together, we will explore challenges, Civil War Commemoration in Programs, AASLH, Nashville, TN strategies, and solutions from our own historic sites, encourage discussion, Bordering States The Challenges and and build relationships and professional XX Room: Salon 2 Opportunities of Interpreting connections in the process. This session focuses on how commemoration for the 150th African American History at Chair: Cindy Olsen, Administrator, Historic anniversary of the Civil War is being Historic Places Sites and Museum Division, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN; Allison interpreted by institutions in states XX Room: Salon G Deeds, Director of Curatorial Operations, that bordered each other and balanced Many historic sites are ideal settings James Madison’s Montpelier, Orange, VA; the cultural ideals of the North and Christopher Shires, Director of Interpretation for interpreting African American the South. Using Ohio and Kentucky history yet are reluctant to pursue and Programs, The Historic Ford Estates, Grosse Pointe Shores, MI; Sarah Stroud, as case studies, a discussion of this opportunity because of a lack of Archaeologist/Preservation Coordinator, commemoration highlights the resources, inadequate research, and Drayton Hall, Charleston, SC; Alison Wright, complexity and fluidity of the Civil War. potential controversy. This session will Curator/Collections Manager, Montgomery Chair: Dina Bailey, Curator, National County Historical Society, Crawfordsville, IN uncover some key tools and strategies Underground Railroad Freedom Center, to overcome these common challenges. Cincinnati, OH; Scott Alvey, Director of Chair: Max A. van Balgooy, Director, Letting Go? Sharing Authority in the Design Studio, Kentucky Historical Interpreting African American Historic Public History Practice Society, Frankfort, KY; Jeanne Schultz Angel, Places Project, National Trust for Historic Executive Director, Lombard Historical XX Room: Salon B Preservation, Washington, DC; Pam Green, Society, Lombard, IL; Jackie Barton, Director Executive Director, Weeksville Heritage Center, Increasingly, history organizations talk of Education and Outreach, Ohio Historical Brooklyn, NY; George McDaniel, Director, about sharing authority with visitors, Society, Columbus, OH Drayton Hall, Charleston, SC; Gretchen Sorin, community members, and others Director, Cooperstown Graduate Program, through projects that involve oral Marketing the Past: Working State University of New York, Cooperstown, NY; David Young, Director, Cliveden, history, community curation, digital with Local Tourism Agencies to Philadelphia, PA media, and work with artists. What Promote a Commemoration implications do these practices have XX Room: Salon C for audiences and for our work as Using Maryland’s three upcoming history/museum professionals? What commemorations as examples—the opportunities and risks come with Civil War sesquicentennial, Harriet letting go? We’ll share some examples

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Tubman centennial, and the War of Responding to History in the Building on his best-sellers Lies My 1812 bicentennial—this session will Making: New Community Teacher Told Me and Lies Across address how history organizations Relevance America, Jim Loewen will suggest ways can partner with tourism agencies to get students (and others) involved in XX Room: Salon 1 to promote their site during a Whether responding to an immediate doing and thinking about history, not commemoration. crisis or ongoing social problem, just memorizing textbooks. Specific Chair: Kate Marks, Outreach and Partnership museum professionals will consider topics will include Coordinator, Maryland War of 1812 how to support families struggling how to handle Bicentennial Commission, Baltimore, MD; controversial topics, Amanda Fenstermaker, Director, Dorchester with difficult issues that impact the County Department of Tourism, Cambridge, community. In the context of current getting secession and MD; Chris Haugh, Scenic Byway and events, participants will be challenged the Confederacy right, and why every Special Projects Manager, Tourism Council to consider how families might benefit American should know how to spell of Frederick County, Frederick, MD; Marci “historiography,” among others. Wolff Ross, Assistant Director for Tourism from their museum’s knowledge, Chair: James W. Loewen, Author, Washington, Development, Maryland Office of Tourism experience, and resources. DC Development, Baltimore, MD Chair: Betsy Bowers, Deputy Director of Museum Education, Smithsonian Early Reinterpreting and Enrichment Center, National Museum of Green Makeover—Environmental Natural History, Washington, DC; Lynne Sustainability at Historic Reenvisioning South Carolina’s Roller, Director of Education and Research, Civil War for the 150th Oklahoma City National Memorial and Properties Anniversary Museum, Oklahoma City, OK; Jon West-Bey, XX Location: Virginia House Curator, Prince George’s African American How do you green your historic XX Room: Salon A Museum and Cultural Center, Bowie, MD property? Tour Virginia House, a This panel will examine how historical historic house museum, with Site organizations in South Carolina are Manager Tracy Bryan and Sarah using the Civil War 150 to motivate 1:30–3:30 pm Brophy, co-author of The Green citizens to stretch the boundaries Museum, and explore opportunities for of their knowledge and assumptions Town Hall Meeting: How green operations, maintenance, and regarding the war’s most contentious Does Commemoration Impact programming applicable in this setting issues. American Memory? and at your own site. Chair: John Sherrer, Director of Cultural Resources, Historic Columbia Foundation, XX Location: State Capitol Chair: Sarah Brophy, Principal, bMuse, Columbia, SC; W. Eric Emerson, Ph.D., Join fellow attendees for a Town Easton, MD; Tracy Bryan, Administrator, Director and State Historic Preservation Hall Meeting, sponsored by the Virginia House, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA Officer, South Carolina Department of Archives Virginia Association of Museums. and History, Columbia, SC; Barbara Franco, This interactive session, moderated Executive Director, Pennsylvania Historical Pathways: Discovering Your and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, PA; by Dr. Spencer Crew, will be a rich Joseph McGill, Jr., Program Officer, National conversation about the significance Connections to History Trust for Historic Preservation-Southern Office, of remembering and forgetting, the XX Room: Monroe Charleston, SC; Allen Roberson, Director, responsibilities of commemoration, Pathways: Discovering Your South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Connections to History is designed Military Museum, Columbia, SC and the power of the voices we choose to recall history. The microphone will to help small historical organizations develop meaningful programs and Remembering Abraham Lincoln be open, so bring your questions, and plan to be challenged! Sponsored in strengthen relationships with their XX Room: Salon H part by The Virginia Foundation for the communities. Session leaders will share Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most Humanities. successful examples and will work with famous of all Americans. How he has participants as they develop a program been remembered says much about our unique to their site. Participants will view of history and how it changes over 1:30–5:30 pm receive a copy of Pathways. time. This session will examine how Chair: Christopher Shires, Director of this process has been manifested in the Hands-On Lab Sessions Interpretation and Programs, The Historic interpretation done at historic sites set Ford Estates, Grosse Pointe Shores, MI; Cost: $30 each aside to commemorate Lincoln. Erik Holland, Curator of Education, State Preregistration Required Historical Society of North Dakota, Bismarck, Chair: Mike Capps, Chief of Interpretation ND; Katie Johnson, Public Programs Manager, and Resource Management, Lincoln Boyhood National Underground Railroad Freedom National Memorial, Lincoln City, IN; Sarah Get Students Doing History Center, Cincinnati, OH; Kyle McKoy, Director, Jencks, Director of Education Programming, XX Room: Jefferson Education and Outreach Division, Arizona Ford’s Theatre Society, Washington, DC; Erin Historical Society, Tempe, AZ Mast, Director, President Lincoln’s Cottage, This workshop, sponsored by the Washington, DC; Tom Townsend, Historian, National Council for History Education, Lincoln Home National Historic Site, is for K-12 teachers, people who work Springfield, IL at historic sites, librarians, and others who present history to the public.

42 AASLH 2011 in richmond, Va specialSpecial Thanks

The 2011 AASLH Annual Meeting Was Made Possible by Generous Support From:

Diamond Gold Dominion 1220 Exhibits Henrico County, Virginia AltaMira Press Richmond Metropolitan CVB ChemArt Robins Foundation dataformat.com LearningTimes, LLC Platinum The Donning Company Publishers & Walsworth Arcadia Publishing Boulevard Museum District Supporting Bryan & Jordan Consulting, LLC Alexander Haas Creation Station NEH on the Road/MAAA Riggs Ward Design Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Breakfast Sponsors James Madison’s Montpelier Silver Virginia Bicentennial of Cooperstown Graduate Program the American War of 1812 Commission Glavé & Holmes Architecture Pennsylvania Civil War 150 Selago Design

Connecting to Collection Continuing conversation Exchange

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✩ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ✩ Randy Silverman Tim Hoogland Julia Rose, Chair University of Utah Marriott Library Minnesota Historical Society Salt Lake City, UT West Baton Rouge Museum St. Paul, MN AASLH would like Port Allen, LA Steve Stearns to recognize the David Janssen Bethany Austin National Guard Historians Bureau many volunteers Detroit Historical Society Alexandria, VA Hampton History Museum Detroit, MI who contributed Hampton, VA Scott M. Stroh III Kristen Overbeck Laise their valuable Rick Beard Executive Director time, energy, Heritage Preservation Milwaukee County Historical Society Independent Consultant Washington, DC and expertise New York, NY Milwaukee, WI Paul Levengood to the success Jody Blankenship David Terry Virginia Historical Society Reginald F. Lewis Museum of this year’s Kentucky Historical Society Richmond, VA Frankfort, KY Baltimore, MD conference. We Stephanie Long appreciate you! Tracy Bryan Jennifer Weiskotten Thomas Las Cruces Museum Virginia Association of Museums Virginia House, Las Cruces, NM Virginia Historical Society Richmond, VA Richmond, VA Nicola Longford Ken Turino The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Norman Burns Historic New England Plaza Boston, MA Maymont Foundation Dallas, TX Richmond, VA J. Gregory Vadney Kate Marks The Stickley Museum, Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko Maryland War of 1812 Abbe Museum L. and J.G. Stickley, Inc. Bicentennial Commission Manlius, NY Bar Harbor, ME Baltimore, MD Jeff Chidester Jay Vogt Elizabeth Osborn, Ph.D. South Dakota State Historical Miller Center of Public Affairs Indiana Supreme Court Charlottesville, VA Society Indianapolis, IN Pierre, SD L. Teresa Church Bill Peterson Barbara Walden Independent Consultant/Archivist Montana Heritage Commission Durham, NC Community of Christ Historic Sites Sheridan, MT Foundation Ana Forgerson Alexandra Rasic Lexington, KY Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center Homestead Museum Washington, DC Scott Wands City of Industry, CA Connecticut Humanities Council Matthew Gibson Laura Roberts Middletown, CT Virginia Foundation for the Roberts Consulting Amanda Wesselman Humanities Cambridge, MA Charlottesville, VA General Lew Wallace Study and Donna Sack Museum Linnea Grim Independent Museum Professional Crawfordsville, IN Thomas Jefferson Foundation Naperville, IL Charlottesville, VA Kurt Senn Lynne Hastings William J. Clinton Presidential James Madison’s Montpelier Library Orange, VA Little Rock, AR

✩ HOST COMMITTEE ✩ Richmond, VA Norman Burns, Co-Chair Maymont Foundation Christy Coleman Maureen Elgersman Lee American Civil War Center Paul Levengood, Co-Chair Black History Museum Virginia Historical Society Judy Draucker Delores McQuinn Richmond Metropolitan Convention Jack Berry Virginia House of Delegates Richmond Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau Bill Martin and Visitors Bureau Mary Jane Hogue Richmond History Center Historic Richmond Foundation Anedra Bourne Richmond, VA American Civil War Center Cheryl Jackson Alex Nyerges Civil War Commission Charles F. Bryan, Jr. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Bryan and Jordan Consulting Kathleen Kilpatrick Kay Penninger Richmond, VA Department of Historic Resources St. John’s Church Foundation Margo Carlock John Kneebone Waite Rawls Virginia Association of Museums Virginia Commonwealth University, Museum of the Confederacy Bob Carter Department of History David Ruth Department of Historic Resources Elizabeth Kostelny National Park Service Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities Sandra Treadway Library of Virginia

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