AMERICAN ASSOCIATION for STATE and LOCAL HISTORY
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AASLH ANNUAL MEETING 1 65 million people served in world war i.
EACH YEAR, 500,000 PEOPLE REMEMBER THEM HERE. The world’s most comprehensive WWI collection is Kansas City’s foremost visitor destination.
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One of the Top 5 Museums in the country Yelp theworldwar.org 816.888.8100 Welcome 2018 Conference Participants! Union Station
et me welcome you to an exciting four days CONTENTS of exploration across dozens of sessions L 3 Welcome from the Chairs and events, many of which will tackle Truth or 4 Meeting Highlights /Need to Know Consequences in the work of public history. 5 Session Updates We history practitioners show our commitment every day to accuracy, 7 Featured Speakers to reliable evidence, and, yes, to trying to tell the truth. In your 9 Meeting Sponsors own approach to the past, you certainly face history’s multiple 10 Schedule at a Glance perspectives, diverse sources, shifting interpretations, and emergent 13 NCPH Poster Session new considerations. And still, at the end of the day, we all attempt to 14 Floor Plans /Maps know how things actually happened. We understand that an idea is a fact until it is disproven. Without such a shared understanding of how 16 Exhibit Hall Highlights knowledge is built, things fall apart. 17 Exhibitors List /Floor Plan Fortunately for our time together in Kansas City, you’re going to be 24 Tours amazed by how well things hold together! Our Program Committee Chair Special Events Tim Grove and Host Committee Co-chairs Mindi Love and Matthew 27 Naylor have led their committees in generating a great conference 28 Wednesday, September 26 experience for you this week. We hope you will enjoy the many formats for discussion and meeting people. I can’t do enough of it justice in this 30 Thursday, September 27 space, so I would urge you to have a quick look at the Schedule-at-a- 36 Friday, September 28 Glance section and to dive into your 2018 Annual Meeting. 42 Saturday, September 29 Onward! 45 Special Thanks 46 AASLH Partners John R. Dichtl 48 Award Winners President & CEO 49 Scholarship Winners AASLH
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION for STATE and LOCAL HISTORY
AASLH ANNUAL MEETING 1 Welcome to Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area!
When you’re in the greater Kansas City metro, you’re in Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area. And if you signed up for any conference tours, you’ll explore some of the many historic sites in the bi-state, 41-county heritage area that partner with us to tell the stories of the shaping of the frontier, the Missouri-Kansas Border War, and the enduring struggle for freedom.
• Tag us on social media with a selfie, photo, or comment about your visit. #FreedomsFrontier • Find a historic timeline and “Places to See” on our webpage. • Request a heritage area map. • Come back with your family and friends! www.FreedomsFrontier.org
PO Box 526 200 W 9th Street Lawrence, KS 66044 (785) 856-5300
2 KANSAS CITY 2018 “If you tell the unvarnished truth, people will be changed.” —John Hope Franklin “A well-organized society is one in which we know the truth about ourselves collectively, not one in which we tell pleasant lies about ourselves.” —Tony Judt “In a democracy, history thrives on a passion for knowing the truth.” —Telling the Truth About History
elcome to Kansas City and #AASLH18! On behalf of the program and host committees, we are so glad you have decided to join us for a few Wdays of thought-provoking conversation, old friends, new friends, interesting historic sites, BBQ, music, and sharing each other’s successes and challenges. This year’s theme, Truth or Consequences, gets at the heart of our discipline and allows us to ponder some difficult questions. In many ways, our profession has never been more relevant as our society asks “What is truth?” and “Who can we trust?” As we strive to tell the whole truth, to teach critical thinking, and to articulate why history is relevant, we can learn from each other. The program and host committees have worked very hard to put together a conference that revolves around the theme. We hope that whether this is your first AASLH conference or your twentieth, you will take advantage of all this region has to offer and will leave professionally refreshed, with new ideas and perspectives, and an excitement about what we are accomplishing as we endeavor to make history accessible in so many ways to our various audiences.
Sincerely,
Tim Grove, 2018 Program Chair Grove History Consulting
Mindi Love, 2018 Host Co-Chair Johnson County Museum
Matthew C. Naylor, PhD, 2018 Host Co-Chair National World War I Museum and Memorial
AASLH ANNUAL MEETING 3 Meeting Highlights
AASLH Registration Desk Hours The AASLH Annual Meeting registration desk is located in the Lobby 3500 of the Convention Center. The desk will be staffed during the following times to answer any questions you may have during the meeting. Tuesday, September 25 3–5 pm Wednesday, September 26 7 am–6 pm Thursday, September 27 7 am–6 pm Friday, September 28 7 am–5 pm Saturday, September 29 8 am–12 pm POP UP ROUNDTABLES!
Is your head buzzing with a current issue or Need to Know! question that is relevant to the field? Is there something you just want to talk about with your 1. Name badges must be worn at all times. colleagues? We have held two slots during the 2. Only registered attendees will be allowed to attend sessions and conference for roundtable discussions about a workshops. subject you don’t see represented in the current 3. N onregistered guests are not allowed to attend sessions or meeting schedule. THESE SESSIONS ARE workshops, but may purchase tickets to attend tours and other NOT PRESENTATIONS—they are facilitated special events. Please check with AASLH registration desk for discussions. To propose a topic, visit the availability. conference registration desk before 2 pm on 4. Y our purchased tickets are located in your registration packet. Thursday. You can also visit the desk to vote for Please check them for the appropriate meeting times and a proposed topic. We’ll announce the session locations for special events. topics by 6 pm on Thursday (via Twitter and 5. Tickets are necessary for all workshops, labs, luncheons, tours, on the information board), and they’ll be held and evening events. Please show your ticket before boarding during the following sessions Friday at 8:30 am buses or entering an evening event. If you’d like to purchase and Saturday at 9 am. tickets, please visit the AASLH registration desk. Some events may be sold out.
Sharing Your Ideas and Opportunities The AASLH Annual Meeting includes activities and networking especially for the field of state and local history! In addition to sponsored sessions throughout the meeting, you’re invited to attend the following AASLH Affinity Group events to discuss the latest issues, share ideas, and to be inspired:
WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY Diversity and Inclusion Task Legal History Business History Tour Force Mixer Tour Military History Educators and Interpreters Religious History Breakfast Diversity and Inclusion Lunch Lunch Task Force Workshop Historic House Museums Small Museums Breakfast Lunch StEPs Morning Field Services History Leadership Institute Women’s History Meet Up Alliance Meeting Reception Lunch
4 KANSAS CITY 2018 THE AASLH 2018 CONFERENCE APP #AASLH18 App: Download the #AASLH18 conference app to plan and manage your schedule, preview speaker and attendee profiles, browse exhibitor listings, and access conference center maps, all from your mobile device. To download the app, search “Attendify App” in the Apple App Store or Google Play Store and download. Within the Attendify app, search “AASLH” and click “Join” to add the #AASLH18 conference. You will be prompted to create a profile with your first name, last name, and email address. Please note that no emails other than a confirmation will be sent to that address. You can also find download instructions online at aaslh.org/conference.
History Happy Hours Session Updates Take a few moments for some informal networking with colleagues. Many of our affinity groups will be Cancellations hosting informal meet-ups in the hotel or at local watering holes where you can come together and The tour Westport: Gateway to the Missouri-Kansas meet people with similar professional interests. Food Border Region’s “Hinges of History” on Friday at 1:30 pm has been cancelled. and drinks are not provided, but good conversation and connections are free. See the Registration Desk The tour The Struggle for Kansas Statehood on for a map and directions. Saturday at 1:30 pm has been cancelled.
Thursday, September 27 Friday Session Name Changed 5:30–6:30 pm The session Moving Past Stereotypes and Myths: Improving Women’s Interpretation at Historic Business History Networking Meet Up Sites and Museums on Friday at 12:30 pm is now XX BRGR Kitchen & Bar Beyond “Slave” and “Mistress”: Improving Women’s 7–8:30 pm Interpretation at Historic Sites and Museums. Emerging History Professionals Networking Meet Up Friday Session Added XX The Chesterfield Bar The session Civil Rights Beyond the South: The Significance of Missouri in the Black Freedom Struggles of the 1960s has been added to Friday at 8:30–9:45 am. Social Media Friday Session Moved Share your photos and comments about the conference on LinkedIn, Facebook, or Twitter. Use hashtag #AASLH18. The session The Truth about Troost: The Consequences of Engaging Diverse Students in Conversations about Race Based on Local History Reduce, Reuse, Recycle has been moved to Friday at 12:30–1:45 pm. Please help keep our meeting environmentally-friendly by placing items in the correct recycling containers placed throughout the Convention Center.
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.
AASLH ANNUAL MEETING 5 STRUGGLE FOR MISSOURI'S STATEHOOD BICENTENNIAL TRAVELLING EXHIBIT
Struggle for Statehood
6 KANSAS CITY 2018 Featured Speakers
Thursday, September 27 8:30–9:45 am
Dan Snow is a historian and British television personality who presents history programs for the BBC and other broadcasters, has a history slot on The One Show, and hosts the podcast Dan Snow’s History Hit, which also includes a video version on YouTube. According to his biography on the BBC, Dan believes that “History is the most exciting thing that has ever happened to anyone on this planet.” Born and raised in London, he remembers spending every weekend of his childhood being taken to castles, battlefields, country houses, and churches. Dan developed a great love of history which he went on to pursue at Oxford University. After college, he started presenting military history programs with his father, Peter Snow. Their series, Battlefield Britain, won a BAFTA award. During the course of his work, Dan has flown World War II aircraft, been gassed, shoveled muck in a sewer under London for a day, contracted pneumonia, and been trained as a sniper.
Friday, September 28 2–3:15 pm
Cheryl Brown Henderson is one of the three daughters of the late Rev. Oliver L. Brown who, in the fall of 1950 along with twelve other parents led by attorneys for the NAACP, filed suit on behalf of their children against the local Board of Education. Their case joined with cases from Delaware, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. on appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court and on May 17, 1954, became known as the landmark decision Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Cheryl is the Founding President of the Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence, and Research, and owner of Brown & Associates educational consulting firm. She has extensive background in education, business, and civic leadership, having served on and chaired various local, state, and national boards. In addition, she has two decades of experience in political advocacy, public policy implementation, and federal legislative development. She is the recipient of various awards and recognition for work in education and community service; presentations at numerous conferences, conventions and universities; and for her work with Congress and the National Park Service to preserve sites associated with the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling of 1954.
AASLH ANNUAL MEETING 7 8 KANSAS CITY 2018 Annual Meeting AASLH OFFICERS Katherine Kane, Chair Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Sponsors John Fleming, Vice Chair National Museum of African American AASLH thanks You! Music Julie Rose, Immediate Past Chair Homewood Museum Norman Burns, II, Treasurer PREMIER SPONSOR Conner Prairie Linnea Grim, Secretary Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Erin Carlson Mast, Council’s Representative President Lincoln’s Cottage AASLH COUNCIL Bill Adair, Class of 2018 PLATINUM SPONSORS SCHOLARSHIP SPONSOR Pew Center for Arts & Heritage William T. Kemper Foundation Melanie Adams, Class of 2020 Minnesota Historical Society Dina A. Bailey, Class of 2018 SILVER SPONSORS International Coalition of Sites of Barton P. and Mary D. Cohen Conscience Charitable Trust Marian Carpenter, Class of 2019 John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Collector Systems Lisa Eriksen, Class of 2021 Heritage League of Greater Kansas City Lisa Eriksen Consulting Kim Fortney, Class of 2020 Jackson County Historical Society National History Day Johnson County Museum Leigh A. Grinstead, Class of 2018 LYRASIS Jennifer Kilmer, Class of 2019 BRONZE SPONSOR Washington State Historical Society Watkins Museum of History Stacy Klingler, Class of 2021 William Butterworth Foundation HEARTLAND SPONSORS Nicola Longford, Class of 2018 The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza City of Shawnee-Shawnee Town 1929 Kyle McKoy, Class of 2020 Historic Kansas City Foundation Mercer Museum and Fonthill Castle Brent Ott, Class of 2021 Kansas City Museum The Henry Ford Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop and Farm Sarah Pharaon, Class of 2019 International Coalition of Sites of Svadlenak Museum Consulting Conscience GOLD SPONSORS Trina Nelson Thomas, Class of 2021 Stark Art & History Venues NETWORKING SPONSORS Scott Wands, Class of 2020 Kansas State Historical Society Connecticut Humanities Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering, STAFF and Technology Aja Bain Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Inc. Program and Publications Manager Missouri Association for Museums and Cherie Cook Senior Program Manager Archives John R. Dichtl National Council on Public History President and CEO Natalie Flammia University of Missouri-Kansas City, Education and Service Manager History Department and Center for Darah Fogarty Midwestern Studies Marketing Manager Westport Historical Society Bethany L. Hawkins Chief of Operations Terry Jackson EVENING EVENT SPONSOR Membership and Database Manager John Sherman and Marny Donnelly Sherman John Garrison Marks History News and Publications Editor Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives
AASLH ANNUAL MEETING 9 Thursday CONCURRENT SESSIONS Schedule September 27 1:45–3 pm • Broadcast Yourself BH 2208 7 am–6 pm REGISTRATION • Consequences Be Damned! Slavery Remembered at a TOURS and the Risk of Acknowledging Hard Truths CC 2504A 6:30–8:30 am • Run (or Walk) Your Way Into History, Cost: $35 • Earned Revenue: Core to Your Institution’s Glance Business and Mission BH 2202 7–8:30 am • Field Services Alliance Tips: Scaling Best • The Consequences of Time and the Truth of Practices to Fit Your Organization BH 2207 Tuesday, September 25 Creative Building Reuse: A Walking Tour of the • Latino Heritage Conservation BH 2203 3–5 pm REGISTRATION Crossroads Arts District, Cost: $20 • Reducing Bias in Hiring to Increase Inclusivity CC 2505A 1:30–4:30 pm • What Is Their Truth? What Do People in Kansas Wednesday • From Slavery to Freedom: Emancipation and City Really Think about History? BH 2209 September 26 Escape in Antebellum Homes, Cost: $38 • Winning the Vote: How to Prepare Your Site for a Celebration 100 Years in the Making CC 2505B 7 am–6 pm REGISTRATION 1:30–5:30 pm • Written and Erased: A Great American Writer, Her • American Creative: Thomas Hart Benton, Cost: Partner, and a Small Nebraska Town BH 2214 TOURS $38 8 am–5:30 pm BREAKFAST 1:45–3:45 pm • President for a Day: Walk a Mile in Harry Truman’s 7–8:15 am • Legal History Roundtable at the Whittaker U.S. Shoes, Cost: $70 Courthouse Meet at AASLH Registration Desk • Historic House Breakfast, Cost: $35 CC 2502B 8:30 am–5:30 pm KEYNOTE 3–4 pm Break in the Exhibit Hall CC 3501 E-H • The Truth about Lawrence, Kansas, Cost: $70 8:30–9:45 am CASE STUDY SESSIONS • Kick-Off Keynote: Dan Snow CC 3501 A-D 3:15–3:55 pm 8:30 am–12:30 pm • Beyond the Mansion: Interpreting Diverse Stories • Kansas City Treasures, Cost: $38 9:45–10:45 am Across a Historic Property CC 2502A • Break in the Exhibit Hall CC 3501 E-H • You Want To Get What Done When? Digitizing the 1–5:30 pm • New Member Reception, Cost: Free CC 2502B Phog Allen Papers BH 2201 • Business History of Kansas City, Cost: $38 CASE STUDY SESSIONS CONCURRENT SESSIONS 10–10:35 pm 4–5:15 pm 1:30–5:30 pm • Realistic Collections Moves BH 2201 • Advocating for Collections Care Both Internally • Johnson County History: From Settlement to and Externally BH 2202 Suburbs, Cost: $38 • Thinking about How We Think: Field Trips That Promote Museum Literacy CC 2502A • All Are Welcome: Staff Training for Inclusion and Ability Awareness at Museums CC 2505A MORNING WORKSHOPS CONCURRENT SESSIONS • Confronting Uncomfortable Truths: The American 8:30 am–12 pm 10:45 am–12 pm Legacy of Repression and Resistance CC 2504A • Donor-Focused Fundraising: Letting Research • America’s Courts: A Place of Truth and • From Assumptions to Intolerance: Addressing Guide Your Organization’s Philanthropy, Cost: $45 BH 2202 Consequences Visitors’ Misconceptions about Religion CC 2505B BH 2208 • Crowdsourcing Slavery Interpretation Challenges • Getting Sexy at Historic Sites BH 2207 • Field Services Alliance Meeting, Cost: Free CC 2505A • Reimagining the Historic House Museum BH 2203 BH 2207 • Detroit67: Looking Back to Move Forward–Truth Leads to Transformation CC 2504A • Stories and the Absence of Artifacts: A 360 Degree 8:30 am–1 pm View of Challenges and Solutions in Creating #1 • From the Ground Up: Creating and Building a in Civil Rights: The African American Freedom BH 2208 • Leadership Forum, Cost: $115 BH 2211 Culture of Evaluation Struggle in St. Louis BH 2208 • New Eyes on Old Stories: Challenging Traditional • Truth and Consequences in Developing Programs AFTERNOON WORKSHOP CC 2505B Narratives to Uncover Deeper Truths of Diversity and Inclusion BH 2209 1:30–5:30 pm • On the Road: Doing Midwestern LGBTQ History in • The Wages of History: Emotional Labor on Public BH 2207 • Demonstrating History’s Relevance in Today’s Traveling Exhibitions History’s Front Lines BH 2214 World, Cost: $45 BH 2208 • Whiskey for My Staff and Beer for My Llamas: Corporate Partnerships BH 2203 RECEPTIONS FULL DAY WORKSHOPS • Will Deaccessioning Really Save Your Museum? 5:30–6:30 pm 8:30 am–5 pm BH 2214 • History Leadership Institute, Cost: Free Marriott Muehlebach Barney Allis Historic Lobby • Career Growth Studio, Cost: $75 BH 2209 AFFINITY GROUP LUNCHEONS • History Happy Hour, Cost: Free • To Be More Inclusive: Training and Resources in the 12:15–1:30 pm Arts and Humanities Field, Cost: $40 BH 2210 5:30–7 pm • Educators and Interpreters, Cost: $40 CC 2502A • Diversity and Inclusion Task Force Mixer, Cost: Free • Religious History, Cost: $40 BH 2211 EVENING EVENT Marriott 12th Street Room – Lobby Level 6:30–9:30 pm • Small Museums, Cost: $40 CC 2502B EVENING EVENT • Suburbia Unleashed, Cost: $45 • Women’s History, Cost: $40 BH 2210 6:30–9:30 pm • Sunset at the National World War I Museum and 10 KANSAS CITY 2018 Memorial, Cost: $49 Friday CONCURRENT SESSIONS Saturday September 28 12:30–1:45 pm September 29 • Beyond "Slave" and "Mistress": Improving 7 am–5 pm REGISTRATION Women’s Interpretation at Historic Sites and 8 am–12 pm REGISTRATION BREAKFAST Museums BH 2211 TOURS 7–8:15 am • Crumbling Pedestals and Monumental Follies: 7:30 am–12 pm Truth and/or Consequences After Charlottesville • Military History Breakfast, Cost: $35 BH 2203 CC 2505A • 18th and Vine Historic District, Cost: $38 • Exploring Ken Burns’s Vietnam War: National and 8:30–9:45 am Local Perspectives BH 2207 8 am–5:30 pm • StEPs Friday Morning MeetUP, Cost: $10 • Inspiring Discomfort with Change: The New Alaska • A Day in St. Joseph, Cost: $70 BH 2211 Exhibition at the Anchorage Museum BH 2214 • Interpreting Controversial Histories through 8:30 am–5:30 pm TOURS Community Collaboration CC 2505B • Find Your Independence!, Cost: $70 8:30 am–12:30 pm • Nomenclature Reinvented! Making Access to • The Story of Segregation in Kansas City, Cost: $38 Historical Evidence Easier CC 2504A 8:30 am–5:30 pm • The Road to Success: Exploring the Intersection • Truth and Consequences: Civil War on the Western CONCURRENT SESSIONS between Planning and Innovation BH 2209 Border, Cost: $70 8:30–9:45 am • The Truth about Troost: The Consequences of • Civil Rights Beyond the South: The Engaging Diverse Students in Conversations CONCURRENT SESSIONS Significance of Missouri in the Black about Race Based on Local History BH 2210 9–10:15 am Freedom Struggles of the 1960s BH 2209 • Betting on History and Culture in Las Vegas • Communicating Across Divides KEYNOTE BH 2207 Room: CC 2505B 2–3:15 pm • Brutal Truths: Making the New Mississippi Civil • Discovering Truth and Unconscious Bias: • Keynote Speaker: Cheryl Brown Henderson Rights Museum CC 2502B A Continued Conversation CC 2505A CC 3501 A-D • Consequences of Truth for Historic Sites • Pop Up Session BH 2210 CC 2505A • Ready for Retirement? BH 2207 3:15–4 pm • Fulfilling Your Mission When Natural and • Telling the Truth about Woman Suffrage: • Break in the Exhibit Hall CC 3501 E-H Manmade Disasters Strike CC 2502A A Roundtable Discussion CC 2502B • Innovative Museum Leadership: Challenges and • To Tell the Truth: Teaching Difficult History CASE STUDY SESSIONS Solutions BH 2208 Through an Exhibit BH 2214 3:25–4 pm • Interpreting Immigration: Perspectives from • Trends and Lessons from the 2018 • Extending Avenues of Digital Engagement: Education, Exhibits, and Collections BH 2214 Leadership in History Awards CC 2504A Crowdsourcing and the Colored Conventions • Pop Up Session BH 2210 • The Truth about Millennials as Change-Makers in Project CC 2502A • U.S. 250th Anniversary Information and Listening the Workplace CC 2504B • Innovation and Collaboration: The Secret to Session BH 2209 Organizational Sustainability and Growth BH 2208 9:45–10:45 pm 10:15–10:30 am Break in Foyer • Break in the Exhibit Hall CC 3501 E-H CONCURRENT SESSIONS 10:30 am–12 pm • NCPH Poster Session CC 3501 E-H 4–5:15 pm • 2019 Annual Meeting Roundtable BH 2210 • 2040: A Museum Odyssey BH 2211 CASE STUDY SESSIONS • A Tale of Two Cities: Building Museums That Are • Adapting Existing Programs to Serve Language Community Centers, Not Monuments to the Past 10–10:30 am Learners BH 2207 BH 2214 • More Than Speaking Slowly: Transforming • Change Is Hard, Does It Have to Be? BH 2214 Museum Educational Programs for Bilingual • The Expanding Role of Museums in Adult Citizenship Education BH 2208 Learners CC 2502A • Hire for Culture Or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Improv CC 2504A • Rebels to Roses: Creating a Volunteer • Food in the Gallery? BH 2207 Management Program BH 2208 • NAGPRA: The Truth about Repatriation and the • The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook: A Consequences of Returning Collections BH 2209 Conversation with the Editors CC 2505A
• Racism: Is Your Museum Ready to Talk about It? • Locating and Interpreting the Missouri Trail of 10:45–11:45 am CC 2505A Tears BH 2209 • AASLH Meeting of the Membership CC 3501 A-D • Tech or No Tech? That Is the Question When • The Power of Puzzles CC 2502A Engaging the Next Generation in History CC 2505B 11:45 am–12:30 pm • Truth or Consequences Lightning Talks BH 2210 LABS • Annual Meeting Attendees Luncheon, Cost: $10 1–5:30 pm CC 3501 E-H RECEPTION • Digital Show and Tell: Innovative (and Low-Cost) 5:30–6:30 pm Tools for Engaging New Audiences, Cost: $35 • Thank You Reception, Cost: Free, Invitation Only BH 2211 Marriott 12th Street Room – Lobby Level • Inside the White House: The Decision Experience, Cost: $35 Harry S. Truman Presidential Library EVENING EVENT • Interpreting World War I: Engaging Audiences in 6:30–9 pm “Overlooked” Histories, Cost: $35 National • Leadership in History Awards Banquet, Cost: $75 World War I Museum and Memorial Room: CC 3501 A-D Charlie Parker Memorial AASLH ANNUAL MEETING 11 “In one way or another I've worked with the people at Orange Frazer Press since 1988. The editorial, design, and business talents of the OFP staff are extraordinary, and the resulting books are visually striking. But as great as these factors are, their quality is in their notion that authors and researchers are not just any clients, but rather people they embrace with kindness and patience.”
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12 KANSAS CITY 2018 National Council on Public History Poster Session Be sure to stop by the Exhibit Hall on Friday morning to hear from students and colleagues from around the country as they share their projects.
Building the ALSAC/St. Jude Archive: Transformation Maxwell Farley ALSAC/St. Jude, Middle and Collaboration Tennessee State University
Curating Metadata for a Community-Based Archive Annie Shirley University of West Georgia
Engaging with Empathy: Staff Support for Lacey Lieberthal John F. Kennedy University Emotionally-Charged Museum Exhibitions
Envisioning New Jersey: Using Truthful Images from Maxine Lurie Seton Hall University the Past to Help Understand the Present
Find Your Independence Kristina Eckfeld City of Independence, Missouri
Historic Decisions: Interpretation through Kathleen Pate and Diane Euston Arkansas Historic Decisions Deliberation Learning Exchange
Historical Interpretation Alongside Arts and Culture Callie Hopkins American University
Impressions from a Lost World Sarah Doyle Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
It’s Not What We Say But What Visitors Do—Place Brian Forist, Allison Mincher, Indiana University Matters! A Study of Informal Interpretation in Leah Palmer, and Lindsay Burks National Parks
Local History and Digital Humanities in Secondary Tim Reidy Rockhurst High School Education
Making Collections Accessible for Researchers Lynn Ward Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Raising America Racist: How Klanswomen Used Kate Schoen University of South Carolina, Education to Implement Systemic Racism Public History Program
Re-purposing a Project: The Indiana History Train Marianne Sheline Indiana Historical Society
Sorting Out Race: Examining Racial Identity and Rachel Pannabecker and Jill Kauffman Museum at Bethel Stereotypes in Thrift Store Donations Weiss Simins College
Talking Hoosier History: An Indiana History Podcast Lindsey Beckley and Lindsay Indiana Historical Bureau Strehl
Tell the Truth: Designing the Mississippi Civil Rights Jill Malusky and Richard Veit Hilferty Museum
Three Wylie Women: An Exhibit on Late Nineteenth- Mary Figueroa Indiana University Bloomington Century Mothering
U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center Veterans Sarah Pendleton U.S. Army Heritage and Ambassador Program Education Center
VR: The Reality of Interpreting Difficult History Kyle Mathers, Abigail Seaver, Ally First Division Museum Through Technology Laubscher, and Kristin Herlihy
“Whose Digital History:” Closing the Gaps Between Megan Smeznik The College of Wooster Academic Historians, Public Historians, and the Public
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AASLH Conversations Drop by the AASLH Thursday, September 27 Conversations Area, 10–10:45 am Small Museums 20,000 Strong located at Lobby 11–11:45 am Tracking Public History Career Paths 3500, to discuss 2–2:45 pm Hidden History: Balancing Corporate Needs and History current topics, 3–3:45 pm In a Rut? Jumpstart Positive Change! discover helpful resources, and make 4–4:45 pm What's Next in Your Small Museum Career? new connections. Friday, September 28 Everyone is invited! 10–10:45 am Free Legal [History] Advice A full description 11–11:45 am Collections Conundrums of Conversations is available on the 11:45 am–12:30 pm Writing for AASLH AASLH app and at 12:45 am–1:45 pm Choosing Collections Management Software the registration desk. 3:15–4 pm Visitors Count! Q & A
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AASLH ANNUAL MEETING 17 Exhibitors 106 Group Email: [email protected] Conservation Center for Art & museum storage equipment. We Booth #314 Web: www.aam-us.org Historic Artifacts now offer the full complement Contact: Regine Kennedy The Alliance nurtures excellence Booth #303 of collection storage includ- 1295 Bandana Blvd., Ste. 335 in your museum and offers a Contact: Samantha Forsko ing cabinets, flat files, mobile St Paul, MN 55108 number of tools you can use in 264 South 23rd St. systems, art racks, and open Phone: 651-290-0977 making the case for your museum Philadelphia, PA 19103 shelving. Our products meet the Email: reginekennedy@106group. and the field. Phone: 215-545-0613 highest standards of conservation com Email: [email protected] practices. Delta Designs Ltd. the Web: www.106group.com BearWallowBooks Publishing Web: www.ccaha.org most trusted name for collection The 106 Group is a project-based Booth #307 We help organizations care storage. company providing services relat- Contact: Linda Wolfe for their collections. Based in ed to: 7172 N. Keystone Ave., Ste. A Philadelphia, we’ve worked with The Donning Company • Regulatory and process primar- Indianapolis, IN 46240 institutions nationwide for over 40 Publishers ily for Section 106, NEPA, and Phone: 800-232-7925 years. Through collections care Booth #200 other regulatory processes Email: sales@bearwallowbooks. training, preservation assessments Contact: Nate Salgado, Geoffrey • Planning and engagement com and planning, grantwriting assis- Bass primarily for local and underrep- Web: www.bearwallowbooks.com tance, and conservation treatment 731 S. Brunswick St. resented cultural communities Old-fashioned recipe books and of paper-based materials, we work Brookfield, MO 64628 • Archaeology and history primar- American history. Great price toward preserving the world’s Phone: 800-369-2646 x3377 ily for regulatory and broader point, great value. Printed in cultural heritage. Email: nathan.stufflebean@ planning projects U.S.A. Many titles to choose donning.com • Interpretation and design from to fit your time period and Cowan's Auctions Web: www.donning.com primarily for creative media, location. Booth #306 The Donning Company Publishers presentations, and exhibits Contact: Jutta Lafley specializes in commemorative BW&A Books—Book Design 6270 Este Ave. pictorial histories and contempo- 53Tom LLC and Production Cincinnati, OH 45232 rary portraits. Donning’s books are Booth #106 Booth #212 Phone: 513-871-1670 custom-tailored to celebrate and Contact: Tom Styrkowicz Contact: Chris Crochetiere Email: [email protected] preserve the heritage of organi- Phone: 913-940-8900 112 W. McClanahan St. Web: www.cowanauctions.com zations, such as, but not limited Email: [email protected] Oxford, NC 27565 With offices in Cincinnati, to: associations, churches, clubs, Web: www.53tom.com Phone: 919-956-9111 Cleveland, and Denver, Cowan’s cooperatives, corporations, educa- ONEbyONE Community Email: [email protected] holds over 40 auctions each tional institutions, hospitals, Portraits… a community building Web: www.bwabooks.com year, with annual sales exceed- military and multicultural groups, event where I create as many as Providing book design and ing $16M. A full-service house, resorts, and state/local. We offer 1246 portraits of your guests in a production services since 1988. Cowan’s Auctions is also a full production services. three day period. Collector Systems, LLC leader in the industry, having disrupted the marketplace from Dorfman Museum Figures, Booth #201 American Association for the start. We were among the Inc. Contact: Eric Kahan State and Local History earliest auction houses to launch Booth #214 169 Hudson St. Booth #403 a website and one of the first to Contact: Joe Bezold New York, NY 10013 Contact: Darah Fogarty sell online. In 2014, Cowan’s, 6224 Holabird Ave. Phone: 212-431-0897 Phone: 615-320-3203 along with five of our competi- Baltimore, MD 21224 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] tors, launched bidsquare.com, Phone: 800-634-4873 Web: www.collectorsystems.com Web: www.aaslh.org an online bidding platform where Email: [email protected] Collector Systems is the ideal AASLH is the professional associ- auction houses are vetted to Web: www.museumfigures.com cloud-based solution for museum ation for history-doers. Whether ensure honesty and quality. Dorfman Museum Figures, Inc. you are the director of a history collections management. Since has been serving the museum museum, a volunteer at a histor- 2003, we have provided top Crystalizations Systems Inc community for over fifty years. ical society, a genealogist, an institutions access to their Booth #107 Originally specializing in creat- educator at a historic house, a information from any computer, Contact: Patricia Ellenwood ing life-size, lifelike figures for history teacher, an avocational tablet, or phone with an internet 1401 Lincoln Ave. museums, DMF has sculpted historian, an archivist, or in one connection. A Spectrum Partner, Holbrook, NY 11741-2215 the likenesses of 800 people of the many other important roles CS facilitates all museum opera- Phone: 631-467-0090 and created over 5,000 realis- in the history field, AASLH is your tions (small and large)—from Email: [email protected] tic figures for museums, visitor community. accessions to online exhibitions. Web: www.csistorage.com centers, design/exhibit compa- Our import tool allows existing We design, manufacture, and nies, and private clients. DMF Association for Living History, collections data (including images install safe lightweight aerospace also fabricates a comprehensive Farm, and Agricultural and documents) to be uploaded Aluminum Collection Storage line of conservationally sound Museums to our secure cloud—where it can Systems that require no mainte- forms out of Ethafoam™ for Booth #311 be securely searched, sorted, and nance. Our industry-leading storage and display of high value Contact: Deborah Arenz shared from any web browser. Moving Painting and Rolled Textile artifact clothing. P.O. Box 16 Chenhall’s Nomenclature 4.0, Storage Systems are available Rochdale, MA 01542 Getty ULAN, and AAT are integrat- in any size. Floor, Ceiling, and Eisenhower Foundation Phone: 402-904-6938 ed to help standardize collections, Free-Standing supported installa- Booth #215 Email: [email protected] and our built-in Gallery feature tions. Aisles are always TrackFree. Contact: Mitzi Bankes Gose Web: www.alhfam.org allows institutions to share collec- PO Box 295 An international museum associ- tions as a public website (and a Delta Designs Ltd. Abilene, KS 67410 ation serving museums and comprehensive API is available for Booth #110 Phone: 785-263-6793 practitioners of living history and even more fine-grained access to Contact: Peter Doucette Email: mbgose@eisenhowerfoun- historic agriculture. collections data). Visit Booth 201 1535 NW 25th St. dation.net to see how institutions includ- Topeka, KS, 66618 Web: www.eisenhowerfoundation. American Alliance of ing Stearns History Museum, Phone: 785-234-2244 x220 net Museums South Street Seaport Museum, Email: pdoucette@deltadesignsltd. IKEducation provides K-12 Booth #305 Masterworks of Bermuda Art, and com educational experiences that Contact: Janet Vaughan the Museum of Democracy use Web: www.deltadesignsltd.com promote the life and times of 2451 Crystal Dr. Collector Systems. Delta Designs Ltd. specializes Dwight D. Eisenhower at his Arlington, VA 22202 in the design and professional Presidential Library, Museum, and Phone: 202-289-9120 manufacture of high-quality Boyhood Home.
18 KANSAS CITY 2018 Exhibitors Emporia State University, trustworthy and reliable choice enduring struggle for freedom that fundraising guidance to handling School of Library and for consulting, sales & marketing, makes this area unique and inter- the day-to-day tasks of a campaign Information Management and operational management. esting to visit. or development operation. Booth #405 Contact: Emily Sanders-Jones, The Foundation of the Gaylord Archival The Heritage League of 1 Kellogg Circle, Emporia, KS American Institute for Booth #114 Greater Kansas City 66801 Conservation of Historic and Contact: Maryellen Dodge Booth #202 Phone: 620-341-5203 Artistic Works PO Box 4901 Contact: Andrew R. Gustafson Email: [email protected] Booth #301 Syracuse, NY 13221-4901 8788 Metcalf Ave. Web: www.emporia.edu/slim Contact: Elizabeth Handwerk Kurt Phone: 800-448-6160 Overland Park, KS 66212 The Emporia State University 727 15th St. NW, Ste. 500 Email: ashlyn.mccarty@gaylord. Phone: 913-715-2551 School of Library and Information Washington DC, 20005 com Email: andrew.gustafson@jocogov. Management is the oldest in the Phone: 202-750-3437 Web: www.gaylord.com org western half of the United States. Email: [email protected] Choose Gaylord Archival for all Web: www.heritageleaguekc.org It is currently the only program Web: www.conservation-us.org your exhibit, display and storage The Heritage League is a in Kansas accredited by the Information about the Foundations needs. From handcrafted boxes nonprofit, membership organi- ALA. The School of Library and Programs including Collections to museum-quality cabinets to zation representing museums Information Science currently Assessment for Preservation our fully demountable Frank and agencies dedicated to the offers courses at six program sites Program (CAP), Emergency Showcase system—we have it all. preservation of cultural heritage. Programs, and Connecting to Membership includes over 100 in Colorado, Kansas, Oregon, Hartsook Utah, and South Dakota. Collections Care (C2CC). museums, archives, historical Booth #115 societies, historic sites, and Flying Fish Exhibits Freedom’s Frontier National Contact: Tammy Weinman individuals in an eight-coun- Booth #400 Heritage Area PO Box 410046 ty region surrounding Greater Contact: Carrie Reid Booth #109 Kansas City, MO 64141 Kansas City. The Heritage Phone: 320-309-4001 Contact: Jim Ogle Phone: 866-630-8500 x8225 League’s “History Map” (print- Email: carrier@flishingfishexhibits. 200 West 9th St. Email: tammy@hartsookcompa- ed and digital) is an important com Lawrence, KS 66044 nies.com resource for residents and tourists Web: www.flyingfishexhibits.com Phone: 785-856-3635 Web: www.hartsookcompanies. alike, who wish to connect with Flying Fish provides a compre- Email: [email protected] com the local history/heritage commu- hensive consulting, sales & Web: www.freedomsfrontier.org Hartsook has a decades-long tradi- nity. The Heritage League also marketing, and operational Freedom’s Frontier NHA brings tion of growing philanthropy for sponsors workshops to improve management service to the together sites and museums nonprofits. We have unique strate- professional practices in area touring exhibition industry around the Missouri-Kansas gies that ensure successful regular agencies, public events to height- around the world. Working border that tell the stories of the giving while building support for en community awareness of exclusively with museums and settlement of the frontier, the capital, program, and endowment. historical agencies and issues science centers, Flying Fish is a Border and Civil Wars, and the Nonprofits may retain Hartsook affecting them, and social events for everything from general
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AASLH ANNUAL MEETING 19 Exhibitors to provide networking opportuni- Lamcraft Inc. services, digital solutions, and Mid-America Arts Alliance/ ties among those working in area Booth #315 collaboration with archives, librar- NEH on the Road/ExhibitsUSA organizations. Contact: Rick Gentry ies, museums, and knowledge Booth #108 4131 NE Port Dr. communities worldwide. We do Contact: Amanda Wiltse HistoryIT Lee's Summit, MO 64064 this through world-class programs, 2018 Baltimore Ave. Booth #104 Phone: 816-795-5505 services, and leadership opportu- Kansas City, MO 64108 Contact: Donny Lowe Email: [email protected] nities like the Leaders Circle, the Phone: 816-800-0925 245 Commercial St. Web: www.museumbookmarkcol- Catalyst Fund, LYRASIS Learning, Email: [email protected] Portland, ME 04101 lection.com and more. Web: www.maaa.org Phone: 207-699-4222 Lamcraft customers receive Mid-America Arts Alliance Email: [email protected] professional custom designs MBA Design & Display organizes traveling arts and Web: www.historyit.com with no additional set up fees, Products Corp. humanities exhibitions for NEH HistoryIT provides software and running charges, or hidden fees. Booth #310, 312 on the Road (in partnership with services that provide clients Our designers do not merely Contact: John Peterson the National Endowment for the with a new approach to making insert your images into pre-de- 35 East Uwchlan Ave., Ste. 310 Humanities) and for ExhibitsUSA. historical collections more useful, signed templates; all photographs Exton, PA 19341 meaningful, and accessible. We submitted for use are individually Phone: 800-635-7386 Mid-Continent Public Library bring industry-leading expertise evaluated and a design is then Email: [email protected] Booth #105 to preserve historical collections created showcasing your images Web: www.mba-usa.com Contact: Cheryl Lang of all types and sizes and to make to best advantage. Every design is MBA Design & Display Products 3440 S. Lee’s Summit Rd. them searchable in meaningful a unique one-of-a-kind creation. Corp. is the manufacturer of Independence, MO 64055 ways. Working with cultural insti- Mila-wall® moveable wall systems, Phone: 816-252-7228 tutions, universities, corporations, Lark Label SCENARIO® temporary walls, and Email: [email protected] professional associations, sports Booth #406 over 170 styles and colors of MBA [email protected] teams, and others, HistoryIT Contact: Karl Miller surface coverings. Mila-wall is Web: www.mymcpl.org leverages cutting- edge technol- Phone: 316-682-5275 used in museums and art galleries The Midwest Genealogy Center ogies, proprietary methodologies, Email: [email protected] thoughout the world, trade show is one of the United States’ and the subject matter expertise Web: www.larklabel.com exhibits, as well as office parti- preeminent resources for family and commitment of our team to Designing beautiful garden tions. Our surface coverings are history, providing access to almost create appealing, effective digital landscapes and growing great self-adhesive vinyls that can be three-quarters of a million on-site portals for historical resources. looking plants is by itself an applied to walls, cabinets, count- materials. They provides access elaborate job and worrying about ers—just about anything. to databases, scanning and Hollinger Metal Edge plant signs shouldn’t be one of digitization stations, oral history Booth #300 your problems. Lark Label designs McCullough Creative recording kits, microfilm reader Contact: Abby Shaw are great-looking, easy-to-read, Booth #412 scanners, and more. The Story 9401 Northeast Dr. and long-lasting. Contact: Bob Neumann Center offers unique services Fredericksburg, VA 19147 10446 Ironwood Dr. that empower library customers Phone: 215-990-5306 Lucidea Tamarack Business Park to create stories, share those Email: [email protected] Booth #101 Dubuque, IA 52003 stories, and connect with the Web: www.hollingermetaledge. Contact: Christine Reynolds Phone: 563-556-2392 stories of others. The Story Center com 13560 Maycrest Way, Ste. 1115 Email: [email protected] celebrates and develops writers, With over 75 years of experience Richmond, British Columbia, Web: www.shootforthemoon.com performers, and filmmakers in a full range of archival materi- Canada V6V 2W9 McCullough Creative is an through access to free resources, als, Hollinger Metal Edge provides Phone: 604-278-6717 extension of your marketing workshops, and a community of the highest quality archival Email: [email protected] department. With experience and storytellers. supplies to museums, historical Web: www.lucidea.com expertise in advertising, displays societies, libraries, historic houses Lucidea Argus is a compre- and exhibits, digital campaigns, Missouri Humanities Council and other small and large collec- hensive, highly configurable publications, video, illustra- Booth #404 tions. Whether a catalog item or a collections management system tions, and photography, we know Contact: Caitlin Yager custom product to your design, we that accommodates diverse what works. If you’re ready for a 415 South 18th St., Ste. 100 offer outstanding customer service curatorial and visitor engagement no-hassle, reliable supplier with St. Louis, MO 63103 and pricing. Please visit our booth requirements for museums of creative capabilities in all things Phone: 315-781-9960 to see new products and services. all sizes and budgets. With this marketing, put us in the ring. Email: [email protected] integrated platform, you can offer Web: www.mohumanities.org Institute of Museum and a Web portal and mobile capabil- The MediaPreserve Missouri Humanities Council Library Services ities for expanded access and Booth #210 provides programming that Booth #213 an enriched visitor experience. Contact: Robert Strauss encourages family reading, Contact: Daniel Leunig Argus: collections management 111 Thomson Park Dr. highlights Missouri’s heritage, 955 L’Enfant Plaza North for forward-thinking museums. Cranberry Township, PA 16066 supports creative writing by veter- Southwest #4000 Phone: 724-779-2111 ans, and assists locals museums, Washington, DC 20024 LYRASIS Email: [email protected] libraries, and other organizations Phone: 202-653-4702 Booth #302 Web: www.ptlp.com/en/ promoting education – facilitating Email: [email protected] Contact: Kenna Juliani mediapreserve/overview/about-us public conversations on topics Web: www.imls.gov 1438 West Peachtree St. NW, The MediaPreserve uses expertly that include history, religion, The Institute of Museum and Ste. 150 modified legacy audio, video, and archaeology, anthropology, philos- Library Services is the primary Atlanta, GA 30309 film equipment combined with ophy, literature, law, ethics, and source of federal support for the Phone: 800-999-8558 current technologies to provide languages. nation’s libraries and museums. Email: [email protected] reformatting services for preser- We advance, support, and empow- Web: www.lyrasis.org vation and access. We employ a Missouri State Archives er America’s museums, libraries, LYRASIS is the nation’s longest highly trained staff of librarians, Booth #408 and related organizations through serving nonprofit for libraries, archivists, and metadata special- Contact: Shelly Croteau grantmaking, research, and archives, and museums. We are ists to create high quality digital 600 West Main St. policy development. Our vision a member-driven organization files and client-specific metadata. Jefferson City, MO 65101 is a nation where museums and whose mission is to support Phone: 573-751-4936 libraries work together to trans- enduring access to our shared Email: [email protected] form the lives of individuals and academic, scientific, and cultur- Web: www.sos.mo.gov/archives communities. al heritage through leadership The Missouri State Archives is the in open technologies, content official repository for state records
20 KANSAS CITY 2018 Exhibitors of permanent and historical value. Indianapolis, IN 46202 NEH grants typically go to cultur- center in the U.S. to specialize in Its mission is to foster an appre- Phone: 317-274-2716 al institutions, such as museums, the preservation of paper-based ciation of Missouri history and Email: [email protected] archives, libraries, colleges, materials for museums, librar- illuminate contemporary public Web: www.ncph.org universities, public television, ies, archives, and other cultural issues by preserving and making The National Council on Public radio stations, and to individual organizations, as well as private available the state’s permanent History (NCPH) is a membership scholars. collections. NEDCC serves clients records to its citizens and their association dedicated to making nationwide, providing book, government. the past useful in the present National World War I Museum paper, and photograph conserva- and to encourage collaboration and Memorial tion treatment, digital imaging, National Archives Traveling between historians and their Booth #206 audio preservation, assessments, Exhibits Service publics. Our work begins in Contact: Mike Vietti consultations, training programs, Booth #308 the belief that historical under- 2 Memorial Dr. and disaster assistance. The Contact: Dee Harris standing is of essential value in Kansas City, MO 64108 Center’s website is a trusted 400 West Pershing Rd. society. Our members include Phone: 816-888-8100 resource for preservation informa- Kansas City, MO 64108 museum professionals, historical Email: mike.vietti @theworldwar. tion in the U.S. and worldwide. Phone: 816-268-8086 consultants, historians employed org Email: [email protected] in government, archivists, histor- Web: www.theworldwar.org Northern Micrographics Web: www.archives.gov/exhibits/ ical administrators, corporate The National WWI Museum Booth #204 nates and business historians, cultural and Memorial is America’s Contact: Al Hamilton The National Archives Traveling resource managers, curators, leading institution dedicated to 2004 Kramer St. Exhibits Service (NATES) offers oral historians, professors and remembering, interpreting, and La Crosse, WI 54603 affordable traveling exhibits for students with public history inter- understanding the Great War and Phone: 800-236-0850 museums, libraries, historic sites, ests, and many others. its enduring impact on the global Email: [email protected] and cultural centers that engage community. Web: www.normicro.com and inspire diverse audiences. National Endowment for the For over 60 years, Northern These exhibits draw from the Humanities NEDCC—Northeast Document Micrographics has partnered holdings of the National Archives Booth #410 Conservation Center with clients in library, a national network of federal Contact: Patricia Brooks Booth #113 academic, commercial, and archives, Presidential libraries, Phone: 202-606-8297 Contact: Julie Martin industrial markets to provide and records centers. Email: [email protected] 100 Brickstone Sq. superior preservation imaging Web: www.neh.gov Andover, MA 01810 products and services. We National Council on Public That National Endowment for the Phone: 978-470-1010 scan a variety of object types History Humanities is an independent Email: [email protected] including bound and disbound Booth #209 federal agency and one of the Web: www.nedcc.org volumes, photos, maps, micro- Contact: Meghan Hillman largest funders of humanities Founded in 1973, the Northeast film, and microfiche. Northern 127 CA – IUPUI programs in the United States. Document Conservation Center Micrographics can also help place 425 University Blvd. is the first nonprofit conservation
AASLH ANNUAL MEETING 21 Exhibitors your digital collections online with Ride Into History our clients include the Kentucky beacons, connect with visitors our software products, ProSeek® Booth #100 History Center, Dole Institute long after they’ve left your site, and PhotoAtlas™. We also offer a Contact: Ann Birney, PhD, Joyce of Politics, National Museum and capture valuable visitor data variety of other services including Thierer, PhD of the Great Lakes, National from one easy to use platform. microfilming, microfilm duplica- 2886 Hwy 99 Rd. R Purple Heart Hall of Honor in Our team has launched over tion, metadata development, data Admire, KS 66830 New Windsor, Ford’s Theater, 2,200 projects since its inception conversions, hosting, and book Phone: 620-528-3580 the Center for Education and in 2006. binding. Email: [email protected] Leadership in Washington, DC, Web: www.historicperformance. and the Detroit Museums Pop-Up. U.S. Army Heritage and Organization of American com Education Center Historians Ride into History is the historical Tools From the Earth Booth #313 Booth #208 performance touring troupe of Booth #116 Contact: U.S. Army Heritage and Contact: Elisabeth Marsh Joyce Thierer and Ann Birney. Contact: Terry Powell Education Center 112 N. Bryan Ave. In addition to performing their 5211 E. Pembrook Circle 950 Soldiers Dr. Bloomington, IN 47408 signature first-person narratives of Wichita, KS 67220 Carlise, PA 17013 Phone: 812-855-7311 Calamity Jane and Amelia Earhart Phone: 727-580-1325 Phone: 717-245-3972 Email: [email protected] and other historic and composite Email: toolsfromtheearth@gmail. Email: usarmy.carlisle.awc.mbx. Web: www.oah.org figures, they conduct workshops com [email protected] Founded in 1907, the and camps, and wrote the recent- Web: www.toolsfromtheearth.com Web: www.usahec.org Organization of American ly-published Performing History: We make prehistoric Native The U.S. Army Heritage and Historians is the largest profes- How to Research, Write, Act, and American tools for museum exhib- Education Center (USAHEC) sional society dedicated to the Coach Historical Performances its and educational programs. is the premier research facility teaching and study of American for U.S. Army history dedicated (Rowman & Littlefield for AASLH) Tour-Mate Systems history. The mission of the organi- and Telling History: A Manual for to telling the Army story… one Booth #203 zation is to promote excellence Performers and Presenters of First soldier at a time through the Contact: Roya Dostzadah in the scholarship, teaching, and Person Narratives. The scholar/ collection of U.S. Army soldiers’ 137 St. Regis Cres. S. presentation of American history, performers both have doctorates stories of all ranks and eras. The Toronto, Ontario M3J 1Y6 and to encourage wide discussion and have been on rosters of arts museum is free, open to the Phone: 416-636-5654 of historical questions and the and humanities organizations. public, and includes immersive Email: [email protected] equitable treatment of all practi- Dr. Thierer is a tenured member and interactive exhibits featuring Web: www.tourmate.com tioners of history. of the history faculty at Emporia artifacts from the beginnings of Tour-Mate is one of North State University. Dr. Birney has the U.S. Army through current PastPerfect Software America’s leading providers of completed John F. Kennedy operations. Additionally, the audio and multimedia interpretive Booth #309 Center for the Performing Arts USAHEC’s archival collection Contact: Sara Van De Carr platforms. From hand held audio “Artists as Educators” Seminars. boasts 16 million items, which 300 N. Pottstown Pike, Ste. 200 and multimedia to mobile appli- are available to the public and Exton, PA 19341 Rowman & Littlefield cations to eco-friendly outdoor can be browsed online. Phone: 800-562-6080 Booth #205, #207 stationary platforms. Tour-Mate is Email: [email protected] Contact: Karin Cholak your one stop shop for interpretive U.S. Citizenship and Web: www.museumsoftware.com 4501 Forbes Blvd., Ste. 200 hardware and content creation Immigration Services PastPerfect Software is commit- Lanham, MD 20706 services. Booth #211 ted to providing professional and Phone: 203-966-7942 Contact: Nadia Mcfarlane affordable software solutions that University of Oklahoma 131 M St., NE 7th Floor Email: [email protected] Extended Campus meet the needs of museums of Web: www.rowman.com Washington, DC 20529 all sizes. Trusted by over 9,800 Rowman & Littlefield, co-pub- Booth #304 Phone: 202-357-7930 Contact: Christine Young organizations around the world, lisher of AASLH books, publishes Email: nadia.mcfarlane@uscis. 1610 Asp Ave., Ste. 108 PastPerfect has transformed how books by museum professionals dhs.gov Norman, OK 73072 museums catalog collections for museum professionals. Our Web: www.uscis.dhs.gov Phone: 405-325-1061 and manage relationships with books offer the best guidance U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Email: museumsonline.ou.edu members and donors. available on an amazingly wide Services (USCIS) is the govern- Web: www.pacs.ou.edu range of topics, including: ment agency that oversees lawful Re:discovery Software, Inc. OU Extended Campus offers planning a new museum; best immigration to the United States. a 100% online Master of Arts Booth #111 practices for running museums; Contact: Brandy Adams in Museum Studies. 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Arabia Steamboat Museum Wednesday, September 26 President for a Day: Walk a Mile Truman pants from the Watkins to the Eldridge Hotel, twice destroyed Library in Harry Truman’s Shoes in pro-slavery raids on Lawrence in 1856 and 1863, where a 8 am–5:30 pm, Cost: $70 short tour and lunch will be provided. A guided tour at each This tour is educational and interactive, venue will explore the institution’s history, collections, and providing a 360-degree experience of exhibits, and offer behind-the-scenes looks at operations and President Truman’s life in the White facilities. Participants will hear stories of the fate of American House and at home in Independence, Indian children sent to government-run boarding schools, Missouri. Visit the Harry S. Truman learn of the founding of KU, experience Quantrill’s 1863 Presidential Library and Museum for raid on Lawrence through first-hand accounts, explore the a guided tour of the museum exhibits passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and see James and experience an immersive, interac- Naismith’s original rules for the game of basketball. tive history lab. Then tour the Harry S. Truman National Historic Site to visit the Kansas City Treasures home he shared with his wife and enjoy a 8:30 am–12:30 pm, Cost: $38 reception on the back lawn. Start your AASLH conference off by visiting three of Kansas City’s most iconic museums. The Arabia Steamboat Museum The Truth about Lawrence, Kansas brings life on the 19th-century frontier to life through a 8:30 am–5:30 pm, Cost: $70 remarkably preserved collection of freight recovered from a Lawrence, Kansas, is a community rich in history, a place sunken Missouri River steam- where local events have influenced both state and national boat. When the Arabia sank history, and where national struggles played out on a local near Kansas City in 1856, it scale. This tour highlights the cultural heritage of Lawrence was loaded with 200 tons of and visits the sites that preserve and tell historical stories of supplies bound for settlements the community, the state, and the nation. Tour venues, many such as St. Joseph, Omaha, featuring new facilities or exhibits, include Haskell Indian and Sioux City. Everyday needs Nations University Cultural Center, the Watkins Museum of settlers are seen in the of History, the University of Kansas Booth Family Hall of necessities found onboard such Athletics/DeBruce Center, the Kenneth Spencer Research as bottled food, tools, clothing, Library, and the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics. A short and over 4,000 shoes. The walking tour of historic downtown Lawrence will take partici- National Museum of Toys and Miniatures, renovated in 2015, features permanent exhibits that explore the art of the imagination. Exhibits include the temporary exhibit Playing for Keeps: The VFW Marble Tournaments, 1947-1962 and Toys from the Attic: Stories of American Childhood that shows the development of children through well-loved toys. Finally, visit the Kansas City Museum at the Historic Garment District which offers special exhibi- tions that display historical items from their collections and also presents contempo- rary works by local fashion designers, entrepreneurs, and artists.
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24 KANSAS CITY 2018 Business History of Kansas City 1–5:30 pm, Cost: $38 Explore the history of business in Kansas City. Stops will include a behind the scenes tour of Hallmark’s corporate archives and The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Each business has extensive collections with public outreach museums. Join this tour, sponsored by the AASLH Business History Affinity Group, to learn how these repositories serve both their internal departments and the public with their The Black Archives of research and displays. Note: A photo ID will be required for Mid-America this tour.
2018 AASLH Johnson County History: From From Slavery to Freedom: Emancipation and Fun Run Settlement to Suburbs Escape in Antebellum Homes 1:30–5:30 pm, Cost: $38 1:30–4:30 pm, Cost: $38 Participants will visit three sites, moving Pre-Civil War Missouri slaveholding households closely resem- chronologically through the history of bled family farms rather than large Southern plantations. Johnson County, Kansas, a suburb of Because Missouri farms operated on a much smaller scale, Kansas City. The tour will begin with a visit enslaved people lived and worked in close proximity to the white to the Shawnee Indian Mission to explore family and hired workers and were often “hired out” to work for the relocation of Native American tribes, neighbors with wages that lined the pockets of slave owners. As white settlement in the area, and the 1839 slavery disintegrated in Missouri in the midst of the Civil War, Manual Labor School. Move forward in time many enslaved people took the opportunity to escape while to the 1860s at the Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop & Farm. Ride others chose to stay. Explore the Harris-Kearney House, the a real stagecoach and explore farm life on the Kansas frontier. John Wornall House, and the Alexander Majors House, and learn Fast forward to Shawnee Town 1929 to explore truck farming how each of these unique museums interpret the stories of the on the outskirts of Kansas City in a dynamic period of history. Civil War, slavery, emancipation, and the building of the West. American Creative: Thomas Hart Benton Thursday, September 27 1:30–5:30 pm, Cost: $38 As one third of the American Regionalists (along with John Run (or Walk) Your Way Into History Steuart Curry and Grant Wood), artist Thomas Hart Benton 6:30–8:30 am, Cost: $35 (1889-1975) was once one of this country’s most popular Run or walk your way into history at the 2018 AASLH Fun contemporary artists. Benton, a champion of rural life and the Run. On the beautiful grounds of the National WWI Museum common man, was also Kansas City’s controversial creative, and Memorial, two courses are available—one with hills to painting satires of American culture in a style that rankled challenge the fittest among us, and a smooth, flat course for the art establishment. This tour will take you to his home those who want a less strenuous challenge. And if you really and studio, the Kansas City Art Institute where he taught for want a workout, run a self-directed course up and down the decades, and the celebrated Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, steps to the monument—it’s wicked. home to the largest public collection of his works. The tour will examine his work, his life, and his legacy, at times both The Consequences of Time and the Truth of brilliant and problematic. Creative Building Reuse: A Walking Tour of the Crossroads Arts District riday, September 28 7–8:30 am, Cost: $20 F Kansas City’s Crossroads District reemerged in recent decades The Story of Segregation in Kansas City as a lively arts district, but it also boasts a fascinating past. 8:30 am–12:30 pm, Cost: $38 Among the most interesting aspects of the Crossroads is the Focusing on landmarks pertinent to the story of segregation, way that past and future merge here, especially through the integration, and the failures of integration in Kansas City, creative reuse of the district’s historic buildings. Hosted by the this tour will expose participants to a new perspective on the Missouri Humanities Council and led by architectural historian racial landscape of the city by examining the history of racial Cydney Millstein, this 1.5-mile tour will give insight into the segregation. The tour, developed for the general public by the history of five Crossroads buildings, their modern re-uses, and Johnson County Public Library, asks participants to consider the processes of preservation. The tour will begin with an over- “Why do we live where we live?” and “How has race, wealth, view of Crossroads history. From there, see the TWA/Barkley and real estate shaped the neighborhoods of Kansas City and building, then the Vitagraph Building, followed by the Rieger Johnson County?” By placing these questions in the histor- Hotel. The tour will make an extended stop at Messenger Café, ical context of segregation, the bus tour encourages open where participants will hear about the building’s repurposing and honest dialogue between participants and allows them and enjoy some of Kansas City’s best coffee and pastries. to understand Kansas City’s history of segregation in order to Finally, finish at the Main Street Theater (Alamo Drafthouse). critique the present and build for a better future.
National Museum of Toys and Miniatures AASLH ANNUAL MEETING 25 Jesse James. With more museums per capita than Washington D.C., St. Joe is the perfect place to explore local, state, and ours iconic American stories. Combining the American West with T stories of some of the most renowned American geniuses, our museums invite you to take a trip north of downtown Kansas City and learn about these stories and more! Find Your Independence! 8:30 am–5:30 pm, Cost: $70 Independence has been the starting point for epic adven- tures for generations. From the early days of the Latter-day Saints movement to the Oregon Trail to President Truman, this city has seen two centuries of history. Visitors on this tour will experience all the history Independence has to offer. Starting at one of the oldest homes in the area, the Bingham 18th and Vine Waggoner Estate shows how the city has changed over time. Move to the National Frontier Trails Museum to learn more about the trail systems through Independence, and the aturday, September 29 Chicago & Alton Depot, to learn about modes of transportation S during the 19th century. Tour the Community of Christ Temple 18th and Vine Historic District and to learn of its architecture and the rich religious roots of 7:30 am–12 pm, Cost: $38 the city. The 1859 Jail Museum details the history of frontier The 18th and Vine District was primarily known for its commer- justice and introduces visitors to a wide array of characters cial value and entertainment centers such as nightclubs and that lived in the home. Vaile Mansion dance halls that helped this area become a prominent loca- For lunch, guests will eat tion for jazz development in the 1920s. The influence of Tom at Courthouse Exchange, Pendergast’s “wide open” city allowed nightclubs to remain which has been on the open during Prohibition. The Kay-Cee style of jazz that devel- Independence Square oped during this time has been attributed to Count Basie and since the late 1800s. For Charlie Parker. The black population in Kansas City increased dessert, walk across the between 1900 and 1940, primarily due to the Great Migra- street to Clinton’s Soda tion from southern rural communities. This area became Fountain, where a young known as a mecca for black businesses which included Ol’ Harry Truman worked his Kentuck BBQ, Roberts’ Motor Mart, the Street Hotel and first job. After lunch, you Lincoln Building which housed many doctors, dentists, will experience the Historic lawyers, and other professionals. In addition to a walking Truman Courthouse, which tour led by the Black Archives of Mid-America, the tour will has stood on the lawn for include a stop at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. nearly 200 years. The Vaile Mansion is the height of Victorian elegance, and you can experience the beautiful A Day in St. Joseph grounds and home. You will end the day by crafting your very 8 am–5:30 pm, Cost: $70 own hand puppet at the Puppetry Arts Institute, dedicated to St. Joseph, Missouri, was once the westernmost edge of preserving and promoting puppetry. the United States, the last stop before pioneers crossed the Missouri River into Indian territory and where you can find the Truth and Consequences: Civil War on the beginning of the Pony Express and the end of the notorious Western Border 8:30 am–5:30 pm, Cost: $70 The Civil War in western Missouri and eastern Kansas did not start in 1861 with the firing on Fort Sumter, but in 1854 with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Explore this territory of firsts: the first armed skirmish between pro-slavery and abolition forces, the first violent actions of John Brown, the first engagement of African American troops during the Civil War, and the first time the U.S. Army ordered the evacuation and destruction of property of American citizens. Learn about the history of the area and the stories of the communities who invested in preserving these sites and telling the story. Tour stops include the Burnt District Monument, Bates County Museum, Battle of Island Mound State Historic Site, Marais des Cygnes Massacre State Historic Site, Mine Creek Battle- field State Historic Site, John Brown Museum State Historic Site, and Black Jack Battlefield and Nature Park.
American Jazz Museum 26 KANSAS CITY 2018 pecial vents These events are not included in the Annual Meeting registration fee and require preregistration. S Please see the registrationE desk for details.
Suburbia Unleashed Wednesday, September 26 6:30–9:30 pm Cost: $45, Preregistration Required Join us for an evening of art, music, theater, and history at the Kansas City region’s newest cultural venue in the Kansas suburbs! Opened in 2017, the Johnson County Arts & Heri- tage Center is a recently renovated mid-century modern icon turned cultural community center. The Johnson County Museum unpacks the history of the city from the suburban perspective. Tour a 1950s All-Electric suburban ranch home juxtaposed against the realities of racial discrimination in housing and education. Sneak a peek at final rehearsals of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights. Visit with visual artists and view their work. The evening offers ethnic fare from local Johnson County Arts & restaurateurs, beers and wines, and live music! Heritage Center
Sunset at the National World War I Museum and Memorial Thursday, September 27 6:30–9:30 pm Cost: $49, Preregistration Required Enjoy an evening of entertainment, great food, and drinks National World War I at one of the most iconic landmarks of Kansas City. The Museum and Memorial National WWI Museum and Memorial welcomes you to spend time with friends and make new ones, while enjoying the galleries including a special exhibition focusing on the American Jewish WWI experience. As the sun sets, take in the best views of Kansas City from the imposing Liberty Memorial Tower. Leadership in History Awards Banquet Friday, September 28 6:30–9 pm Cost: $75 Join AASLH in honoring the best in state and local history at the 2018 Leadership in History Awards. The evening will include dinner, a performance from a National History Day winner, and a lively awards presentation.
AASLH ANNUAL MEETING 27 Wednesday September 26
Pre-meeting Workshops Harry Truman Memorial
These events are not included in the Annual Meeting registration fee and require preregistration. Please see the registration desk for details.
Full-Day Workshops Morning Workshops 8:30 am–5 pm 8:30 am–12 pm Career Growth Studio ST Cost: $75 Donor-Focused Fundraising: Letting XX Room: BH 2209 Research Guide Your Organization’s Are you at sea in your career’s wide ocean? Need to find your bearings or set your course for an invisible shore? Learn, develop, and hone some effective strategies Philanthropy ST as you navigate your career beyond the entry-level. Where do you want to go next? Cost: $45 How do you get there? XX Room: BH 2208 Chair: Dan Yaeger, New England Museums Association, Arlington, MA; Kristin Gallas, Tsongas How do donors want to be approached Industrial History Center, Lowell, MA regarding philanthropy? Your answer matters. Truth: nonprofit museums To Be More Inclusive: Training and Resources in the Arts and Humanities and history institutions rely on private Field DI funding to maintain their facilities Cost: $40 and sustain their programs. The XX Room: BH 2210 consequences of not utilizing today’s How diverse and inclusive is the arts and humanities field in the areas of employ- research and evidence-based fund- ment, policies and procedures, and programs/activities? Join this all day pre-con- raising practices will limit a nonprofit’s ference workshop to receive the necessary training and resources to ensure that ability to fulfill its mission. diverse viewpoints representing race, ethnicity, culture, disabilities, and sexual Chair: Debbie Bass, National World War I identity are integrated and practiced. Museum and Memorial, Kansas City, MO; Matt Beem, Hartsook, Kansas City, MO; Chair: Marian Carpenter, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL; Omar Peggy Dunn, Mayor and Community Leader, Eaton-Martinez, Prince George’s County Parks & Recreation at M-NCPPC, College Park, MD; Leawood, KS; Kent Sunderland, Sunderland Enimini Ekong, Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, Topeka, KS Foundation, Overland Park, KS
Session Codes: CE Creative and Experimental HR History Relevance ST Stability and Transparency DI Diversity and Inclusion 28 KANSAS CITY 2018 Field Services Alliance Meeting ST a highly interactive format that leverages Afternoon Workshop Cost: Free conversations and emphasizes mental agility and engagement with peers, this XX Room: BH 2207 1:30–5:30 pm The Field Services Alliance (AASLH year’s Leadership Forum looks at the Affinity Group) consists of those who intersection points for museum leaders, Demonstrating History’s Relevance organizational culture, and museums provide training and capacity-building in Today’s World services for history organizations and and community. Emphasizing how individual career growth mirrors organi- Cost: $45 museums. Join FSA members to hear XX Room: BH 2208 about current trends in the work of field zational growth, What’s Next? Growing What does it mean to be relevant? What services offices, upcoming programs Your Career in a Time of Change offers is the relationship between relevance and services, and how FSA is working new and experienced museum leaders and value? Through discussion and towards articulating its impact and the opportunity to pause and think about group interaction we will explore ways outcomes. Visit aaslh.org/resources/ why they do what they do; to interact to make your institution or site more affinitygroups for more information. with and learn from one another, to discuss what works and what doesn’t, relevant to your community. We will Chair: Jeannette Rooney, Indiana Historical also learn about tools to help demon- Society, Indianapolis, IN and to explore how to learn from failure. Participants will emerge better able to strate the value of history as a disci- address leadership challenges regarding pline. Chair: John Garrison Marks, PhD, AASLH, 8:30 am–1 pm creating and nurturing organizational cultures that stress empathy and equity, Nashville, TN; Aaron Genton, Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill, Harrodsburg, KY ;Tim Grove, Leadership Forum: fostering leadership at all levels, and Grove Historical Consulting, Falls Church, VA What’s Next? Growing Your Career examining their own careers as part of a continuum of practice. Forum partici- in a Time of Change pants will work in small and large groups, Cost: $115 as well as have time for individual reflec- Evening Event XX Room: BH 2211 tion and identification of steps for short-, 6:30–9:30 pm Too many museum leaders come to mid-, and long-range action. work to solve problems. That’s not a Co-Chairs: Anne Ackerson, Leading by Design, Suburbia Unleashed bad thing, but too often they haven’t Troy, NY; Joan Baldwin, The Hotchkiss School, Cost: $45 worked out how they feel about their Lakeville, CT; and Greg Stevens, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC own practice of museum leadership. In See description on page 27.
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Session Codes: CE Creative and Experimental HR History Relevance ST Stability and Transparency DI Diversity and Inclusion AASLH ANNUAL MEETING 29 Thursday September 27
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7–8:15 am 9:45–10:45 am Historic House Breakfast New Member/First Time Attendee Reception Cost: $35; Preregistration Required Cost: Free; Preregistration Recommended XX Room: CC 2502B XX Room: CC 2502B Are you on the front lines? Do you want Are you or your institution a new member of AASLH? Or is this your first AASLH to help solve all the problems with Annual Meeting? Come learn about what AASLH and the Annual Meeting have to historic houses over one breakfast? offer and how you can reap the benefits from your membership and your time at the Well, you probably can’t but we can conference. Also, meet fellow AASLH members, along with members of the AASLH help you find answers! After state of Council and staff. the field comments, attendees will be broken into small group think tanks to problem solve and strategize the oppor- tunities and challenges facing historic Case Study Sessions houses. The large group will reconvene 10–10:35 am to prioritize and draft recommendations that will be shared with the AASLH Realistic Collections Moves CE community. XX Room: BH 2201 This session addresses realistic and achievable strategies for moving collections. Move projects are frequent and challenging, which requires museum staff to be 8:30–9:45 am creative and innovative. Collections moves can be efficient, inexpensive, safe, and Kick-Off realistic. Presenters will share advice, tips, resources, and strategies that you can Keynote: adapt for success. Dan Snow Chair: Melissa de Bie, History Colorado, Denver, CO CE Room: Thinking about How We Think: Field Trips That Promote Museum Literacy CC 3501 A-D XX Room: CC 2502A At the Missouri History Museum, the key to creating museum literate learners is metacognition: thinking about your own thinking. The strategy makes museum 9:45–10:45 am learning transparent and accessible. This case study will examine how museum Break in Exhibit Hall literacy skills are taught and deconstructed on tours, and the effect on students and Room: CC 3501 E-H educators. Chair: Sarah Sims, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MO
Session Codes: CE Creative and Experimental HR History Relevance ST Stability and Transparency DI Diversity and Inclusion 30 KANSAS CITY 2018 Detroit67: Looking Back to Move Forward–Truth Leads to Transformation DI XX Room: CC 2504A In searching for ways to discover and display the truths behind the causes and consequences of the racially charged conflict of July 1967, the Detroit Historical Society developed a cross-disciplinary project model that can be applied by historical organizations of any size or resource level to similar issues. Presenters will discuss the impact this initiative had on the community as well as on the organizational culture within the historical society. Chair: Joel Stone, Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI; Kalisha Davis, Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI From the Ground Up: Creating and Building a Culture of Evaluation ST XX Room: BH 2208 How can you go from having no evaluation to creating a culture of evaluation? This session will explore three internal evaluators and how their positions came to be, how they have built evaluation capacity in their museums, consequences of evaluating and not evaluating, and ways to start incorporating evaluation into your own work. Chair: Sena Dawes, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MO; Patience Baach, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL; Katherine Wood, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN New Eyes on Old Stories: Challenging Traditional Narratives to Uncover Deeper Truths CE XX Room: CC 2505B Concurrent Sessions Why should we re-examine the “truths” our museums inter- pret? How does the incorporation of new scholarship or 10:45 am–12 pm previously omitted perspectives necessitate reconsideration America’s Courts: A Place of Truth and Consequences of the ways we tell the story? Find out how funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities is helping Plimoth HR Plantation and the Alice Austen house challenge common XX Room: BH 2202 perceptions of history. Bust out the popcorn! Small group discussions will occur after Chair: Patricia Brooks, National Endowment for the Humanities, viewing excerpts from two documentary films produced by Washington, DC; Victoria Munro, Alice Austen House, Staten Island, NY; federal courts in Kansas (Americans by Choice) and Indiana Richard Pickering, Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MA (And Justice for All). The discussion will focus on the making of the films and using film to educate the public about the On the Road: Doing Midwestern LGBTQ History in role courts played and still play in welcoming and protecting Traveling Exhibitions DI all citizens. XX Room: BH 2207 Chair: Elizabeth R. Osborn, PhD, Indiana University Center on LGBTQ history is an important, complex, and sometimes Representative Government, Bloomington, IN; Doria Lynch, U.S. District unwelcome part of communities’ pasts. Representatives from Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN; Ray Waters, U.S. District Court, District of Kansas, Kansas City, KS University of Missouri-Kansas City, Indiana Historical Society, and Mid-Continent Public Library will explain how historians Crowdsourcing Slavery Interpretation Challenges CE have interpreted various hidden histories, describe ways for XX Room: CC 2505A executing a traveling exhibit, and cover the exhibits’ qualita- With nearly a century of combined experience to draw on, tive and quantitative impacts. this panel will address interpretive conundrums surrounding Chair: Taylor C. Bye, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, slavery or its legacies that YOU bring to the conference. Email MO; Karen DePauw, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN; Dylan Little, Mid-Continent Public Library, Independence, MO; Kenneth C. your site’s problem to [email protected]. The Turino, Historic New England, Haverhill, MA panel will facilitate a brainstorming session with the audience to help find a solution. Whiskey for My Staff and Beer for My Llamas: Corporate Chair: Kristin Gallas, Tsongas Industrial History Center, Lowell, MA; Partnerships CE Christian Cotz, James Madison’s Montpelier, Orange, VA; Linnea Grim, X Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, Charlottesville, VA; Richard Josey, X Room: BH 2203 Collective Journeys, LLC, Maplewood, MN; Joseph McGill, The Slave Corporate relationships can be more than just dollars, but Dwelling Project, Ladson, SC may require stepping outside our comfort zone. Explore unique corporate partnerships from the nitty-gritty of contract negotiations to building staff buy-in to final implementation.
Session Codes: CE Creative and Experimental HR History Relevance ST Stability and Transparency DI Diversity and Inclusion AASLH ANNUAL MEETING 31 hursday, September 27 History Affinity Group and special guest Kimberlee Ried, T Public Programs Specialist for the National Archives and Records Administration, for lunch and a presentation on Dallas Heritage Village, West Overton Village, and the Dr. early territorial court cases from Kansas involving women Pepper Museum will share their unique stories. seeking divorces and women inmates who were erroneously Chair: Melissa Prycer, Dallas Heritage Village, Dallas, TX; Jessica Kadie- incarcerated in Leavenworth Penitentiary. Barclay, West Overton Village and Museum, Scottdale, PA; Joy Summar- Smith, Dr. Pepper Museum & Free Enterprise Institute, Waco, TX
Will Deaccessioning Really Save Your Museum? ST Concurrent Sessions XX Room: BH 2214 1:45–3 pm Standards surrounding the use of funds from the sale of deac- cessioned objects were established almost thirty years ago. Broadcast Yourself CE Presentation of legal and ethical principles behind the stan- XX Room: BH 2208 dards and examination of larger issues of governance, civic We all know social media channels can be used to support responsibility, and sustainability will precede a discussion organizations’ education-related goals. But how do you about whether the standards are still relevant today. generate engaging content? And, how can you afford it? Learn Chair: Sally Yerkovich, The American-Scandinavian Foundation, New from seasoned experts: British presenter/history program York, NY; Lori Breslauer, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL; Jennifer Landry, City of Irving, Irving, TX maker Dan Snow and the team from the National WWI Museum and Memorial. Chair: Mike Vietti, National World War I Museum and Memorial, Kansas City, MO; Dan Snow, Dan Snow’s History Hit, London, England; Chris Affinity Group Luncheons Wyche, National World War I Museum and Memorial, Kansas City, MO; Jake Yadrich, National World War I Museum and Memorial, Kansas City, 12:15–1:30 pm MO These events are not included in the Annual Meeting registra- Consequences Be Damned! Slavery Remembered and tion fee and require preregistration. the Risk of Acknowledging Hard Truths HR Educators and Interpreters XX Room: CC 2504A Cost: $40 As historic sites and museums continue to take steps to XX Room: CC 2502A include the lives of enslaved men, women and children, three Join the Educators and Interpreters Committee for lunch, organizations serve in helping raise awareness and recognize networking, and discussion. Get a chance to meet other the enslaved. Delivering such truths does come with some professionals, contribute to a lively lunch discussion, and consequences. Hear these professionals talk about their proj- learn more about the work of the Educators and Interpreters ects and the challenges they’ve faced. Committee. Chair: Nicole A. Moore, National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA; Ann Chinn, Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Religious History Project, Jacksonville, FL; Paul J. Growald, Stopping Stones Project, Shelburne, VT; Joseph McGill, The Slave Dwelling Project, Ladson, SC Cost: $40 XX Room: BH 2211 Earned Revenue: Core to Your Institution’s Business and Join the AASLH Religious History Group as we learn about Mission ST Unity, a non-denominational spiritual organization headquar- XX Room: BH 2202 tered at Unity Village, located fifteen miles from downtown An institution’s relationship with earned revenue can be Kansas City. Dr. Mark Scherer, Unity archivist, will share complicated. Is it possible to make earned revenue part of a information on the history and current ministries of the group, site’s core business without sacrificing mission and soul? Hear influenced by the New Thought movement and founded by from three museum leaders whose organizations have wrestled Charles and Myrtle Fillmore in 1889 as a healing ministry with the truth and consequences of earned revenue. based on the power of prayer and thoughts. Chair: Ryan Spencer, The Henry Ford, Dearborn, MI; Ashley Rogers, Whitney Plantation, Wallace, LA; Sean Kelley, Eastern State Penitentiary Small Museums Historic Site, Philadelphia, PA Cost: $40 XX Room: CC 2502B Field Services Alliance Tips: Scaling Best Practices to Tackling the redesign of permanent exhibits is a daunting task Fit Your Organization ST for most of us. Where do you begin? And how do you get it XX Room: BH 2207 done? Steve Nowak from the Watkins Museum of History will Workshops, webinars, and conferences present ideal best share their story of a massive exhibition overhaul. Learn more practices in museum management. We learn about projects about how they reached out to the community to shine a light and lessons learned at large, well-funded institutions, but on stories that are often overlooked. leave wondering: how can I do this at my small museum? Join Women’s History us to discuss scalability and how to implement big ideas on Cost: $40 an achievable level. XX Room: BH 2210 Chair: Samantha Forsko, Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, Philadelphia, PA; Amy Rohmiller, Ohio History Connection, When you’re researching women’s history, sometimes Columbus, OH; Jeannette Rooney, Indiana Historical Society, you have to look in unexpected places. Join the Women’s Indianapolis, IN
Session Codes: CE Creative and Experimental HR History Relevance ST Stability and Transparency DI Diversity and Inclusion 32 KANSAS CITY 2018 Latino Heritage Conservation DI Museum professionals involved in the XX Room: BH 2203 creation of American Bittersweet: The Members of Latin@s in Heritage Life and Writing of Willa Cather tell Conservation will present local and their stories. national perspectives on social justice Chair: Nathan Bartel, Flint Hills Design, North Newton, KS; Ashley Olson, Willa Cather in historic preservation, equity in Foundation, Red Cloud, NE; Tracy Tucker, historic preservation, current chal- Willa Cather Foundation, Red Cloud, NE lenges in preservation policy, educa- tion, and recruitment, alliances with Pony Express underserved communities, and a 1:45 pm–3:45 pm vision for a future of historic preserva- tion that connects multiple campaigns for social justice. Legal History Roundtable at the Whittaker U.S. Chair: Sarah Zenaida Gould, PhD, Latin@s in Heritage Conservation Courthouse HR and UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures, San Antonio, TX; Ray Rast, PhD, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA; Daniel Serda, PhD, inSITE Planning, XX Location: Meet group at AASLH registration desk to travel LLC, Kansas City, KS ; Josephine S. Talamantez, Chicano Park Museum to courthouse and Cultural Center, San Diego, CA Walk to the Whittaker U.S. Courthouse, which features a public gallery and WPA murals of river scenes. It’s a great DI Reducing Bias in Hiring to Increase Inclusivity setting to learn more about local legal history and court XX Room: CC 2505A outreach. A Legal History Group roundtable concludes the You’ve already decided that inclusion is a value and your session. (Photo ID required; no cell phones/wireless devices staff needs to reflect the diversity of your public. How do you due to security regulations.) change your hiring process to reflect that value? Discover Chair: Rachael L. Drenovsky, Learning Center Coordinator, Michigan three tools–challenge-based hiring activities, modified inter- Supreme Court Learning Center, Lansing, MI; Diana Diaz, U.S. District view questions, and internship pathway–to improve recruiting Court, Western District of Missouri, Kansas City, MO; Howard F. Sachs, inclusivity. U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri, Kansas City, MO Chair: Stacy Klingler, Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House, Moline, IL; Sage Morgan-Hubbard, American Alliance of Museums, Arlington, VA; Natalie Peabody, The Sixth Floor Museum, Dallas, TX; 3–4 pm Chris Taylor, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN Break in Exhibit Hall What Is Their Truth? What Do People in Kansas City Room: CC 3501 E-H Really Think about History? HR XX Room: BH 2209 Do people in Kansas City care about history? Have we, as Case Study Sessions a field, done enough to make them want to care? If they 3:15–3:55 pm don’t think history is valuable or critical, why not? What can history organizations do to make history more relevant to their Beyond the Mansion: Interpreting Diverse Stories communities? Across a Historic Property HR Chair: Conny Graft, Conny Graft Research and Evaluation, Williamsburg, VA; Mindi C. Love, Johnson County Museum, Shawnee, KS XX Room: CC 2502A In their interpretive planning process, Andrew Jackson’s Winning the Vote: How to Prepare Your Site for a Hermitage asked the question, “What stories are missing or Celebration 100 Years in the Making HR under-told in our current interpretation?” Come see how The XX Room: CC 2505B Hermitage is learning from audience research and interpretive Join us as we discuss the upcoming Centennial of the 19th planning to reconsider how it communicates the complex and Amendment in 2020 and its relevance today. What initia- diverse experiences of life in the Jacksonian Era beyond the tives are already underway? What are the narratives we must mansion. confront to grapple with the complexities of the past? How Chair: Katie Chandler, RK&A, Inc., Alexandria, VA; Erin Adams, Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage, Nashville, TN; Ashley Bouknight, PhD, Andrew will we engage audiences and build programs to inspire Jackson’s Hermitage, Nashville, TN action? Chair: Kelsey Millay, National Woman’s Party at the Belmont-Paul You Want To Get What Done When? Digitizing the Phog Women’s Equality National Monument, Washington, DC; Lori Osborne, ST Frances Willard House Museum, Evanston Women’s History Project, and Allen Papers National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites, Evanston, IL; Kathleen XX Room: BH 2201 Pate, Arkansas Women’s History Institute, Pine Bluff, AR; Noelle N. How do you react when a crowdfunded project focused on Trent, PhD, National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN a significant figure in your university’s history is successful? Written and Erased: A Great American Writer, Her And little physical, intellectual, and conservation work has been done to their collection? University of Kansas libraries HR Partner, and a Small Nebraska Town staff will discuss lessons learned from digitizing basketball XX Room: BH 2214 coach Phog Allen’s papers. In a new exhibit installed in Red Cloud, Nebraska, an exhibit Chair: Marcella Huggard, University of Kansas Libraries-Kenneth designer, a museum educator, and a foundation president Spencer Research Library, Lawrence, KS; Jocelyn Wehr, University of work to address the sexuality of a great American writer. Kansas Libraries, Lawrence, KS
Session Codes: CE Creative and Experimental HR History Relevance ST Stability and Transparency DI Diversity and Inclusion AASLH ANNUAL MEETING 33 hursday, September 27 Getting Sexy at Historic Sites CE T XX Room: BH 2207 Let’s talk about sex. From physical intimacy to courtship to sex work to changing sexual Concurrent Sessions norms, incorporating the history of sexuality into museums and historic sites allows us to 4–5:15 pm
explore questions of societal power, create JASON DAILEY Advocating for Collections Care Both Internally and perspectives on modern sexual politics, and increase audiences. But how can orga- Externally ST nizations incorporate this topic in a way that is historically XX Room: BH 2202 accurate and respectful, rather than simply prurient? Join the This session will explore routes for both external and internal speakers in a conversation about how to do just that. advocacy with a focus on collections care, securing time Chair: Susan Ferentinos, Public History Researcher, Writer, and and funding for preservation initiatives and conservation Consultant, Bloomington, IN; Kaci Johnson, Bonanzaville Prairie treatment, and will discuss opportunities for incorporating Village, Fargo, ND; Angela Smith, PhD, North Dakota State University, information about preservation into all institutional advocacy Fargo, ND efforts. CE Chair: Laura Hortz Stanton, Conservation Center for Art and Historic Reimagining the Historic House Museum Artifacts, Philadelphia, PA; Jennifer Ortiz, Utah Division of Arts and XX Room: BH 2203 Museums, Salt Lake City, UT A fundamental trait at successful house museums is a willingness to evolve and change. Presenters will offer new All Are Welcome: Staff Training for Inclusion and Ability approaches to engage audiences, expand impact, think Awareness at Museums DI broadly and manage real-world issues of earned income/ XX Room: CC 2505A sustainability. This session uses examples by the authors in Museums want to be inclusive to all, including those with the new AASLH publication, Reimagining the Historic House differing abilities. When you think of accessibility or inclu- Museum. sion, do you think of training staff? Have some fun in this Chair: Kenneth C. Turino, Historic New England, Haverhill, MA; Lucinda session as you learn about ability awareness and how you can Brockway, The Trustees of Reservations, Beverly, MA; Katherine D. Kane, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford, CT; Lawrence Yerdon, train and support all museum staff to practice inclusion. Strawbery Banke, Portsmouth, NH Chair: Daniel Jones, Living History Farms, Urbandale, IA; Caroline Braden, The Henry Ford, Dearborn, MI; Paul Greene, The Inclusion Stories and the Absence of Artifacts: A 360 Degree Connection- Together We Play, Waterloo, IA; Tyler Greene, The Inclusion Connection- Together We Play, Waterloo, IA View of Challenges and Solutions in Creating #1 in Civil Rights: The African American Freedom Struggle in St. Confronting Uncomfortable Truths: The American Louis DI HR Legacy of Repression and Resistance XX Room: BH 2208 XX Room: CC 2504A Staff members from across the Missouri Historical Society will Public history institutions have an amazing responsibility to give a 360-degree view of the challenges presented and the reflect truthful accounts that challenge and inspire their visi- solutions reached in the development of the exhibition #1 in tors towards a greater understanding of Civil Rights: The African American Freedom Struggle in St. social behavior. This interactive discus- Louis, which spans the period of 1819 to the present. sion will explore uncomfortable truths Chair: Elizabeth Pickard, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MO; through the lens of African American Shakia Gullette, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MO; Gwen history and experiences in an effort to Moore, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MO; Sarah Sims, Missouri build a culture of truth. Historical Society, St. Louis, MO Chair: Christopher Miller, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH Truth and Consequences in Developing Programs of Diversity and Inclusion DI From Assumptions to Intolerance: XX Room: BH 2209 Addressing Visitors’ Misconceptions Join this roundtable discussion focusing on ways in which about Religion DI issues of diversity and inclusion intersect with the theme XX Room: CC 2505B of Truth or Consequences. This session is sponsored by the Interpreting religion can be challenging, AASLH Educators and Interpreters Committee. Nelson-Atkins especially when museum visitors Chair: Megan Wood, Director, Museum and Library Services, Ohio Museum of Art arrive with misconceptions and biases. History Connection, Columbus, OH; Sarah Jencks, Ford’s Theatre, Washington, DC Following three case studies from institu- tions experienced in addressing religious questions based on The Wages of History: Emotional Labor on Public misinformation, the audience will join in, both by questioning History’s Front Lines ST panelists and sharing their experiences related to the truth or XX Room: BH 2214 consequences of interpreting religion. Chair: Karen Graham Wade, Community of Christ Historic Sites Many public history interpreters enter the field seeing the Foundation, Los Alamitos, CA; Petra Alsoofy, Arab American National work as a privilege, but quickly discover its emotional and Museum, Dearborn, MI; Lynne Calamia, Executive Director, Historic financial tolls. In conversation with The Wages of History: Arch Street Meeting House, Philadelphia, PA ; Barbara Walden, Emotional Labor on Public History’s Front Lines’ author, Community of Christ Historic Sites Foundation, West Hartford, CT
Session Codes: CE Creative and Experimental HR History Relevance ST Stability and Transparency DI Diversity and Inclusion 34 KANSAS CITY 2018 participants will History Happy Hour think and talk about Cost: Free (food and drinks not included) working conditions Looking for a way to network with new colleagues? Many of at cultural heritage our affinity groups will be hosting informal meet-ups in the organizations. This hotel or at nearby restaurants and bars where you can come session is sponsored Downtown Skyline together and meet people with similar professional interests. by the National Find a list of offerings on the AASLH website, the conference Council on Public app, or at the conference registration desk. History. Chair: Amy Tyson, Associate Professor, Department of History, DePaul University, Chicago, IL; Rebecca Shrum, Indiana University-Purdue 5:30–7 pm University, Indianapolis, IN Diversity and Inclusion Task Force Mixer Cost: Free; Preregistration Recommended XX Room: Marriott 12th Street Room – Lobby Level Receptions Join AASLH’s Diversity and Inclusion Task Force for a time of fellowship. Meet with current members of the task force and 5:30–6:30 pm other conference attendees, and learn more about how the History Leadership Institute task force is assisting AASLH staff and council in their efforts Cost: Free; Preregistration Recommended to build inclusionary practices into their work and the public XX Room: Marriott Muehlebach Barney Allis Historic Lobby history field at large. Come celebrate the kick-off of the History Leadership Insti- tute! Formerly known as Developing History Leaders @SHA and the Seminar for Historical Administration, 2018 marks a Evening Event transformation of the field’s premier professional development opportunity and its re-envisioning as the History Leadership 6:30–9:30 pm Institute. Whether you’re an alumnus of the program, inter- ested in attending, or just curious what all the buzz is about, Sunset at the National World War I Museum and Memorial come join us for a lively gathering of history professionals Cost: $49 focused on the future of the field. See description on page 27.
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Session Codes: CE Creative and Experimental HR History Relevance ST Stability and Transparency DI Diversity and Inclusion AASLH ANNUAL MEETING 35 Friday September 28
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of operation. Whether your organization is already using StEPs 7–8:15 am or you would like to explore enrolling in the program, you are Military History Breakfast invited to join us. Continental breakfast included. Cost: $35; Preregistration Required XX Room: BH 2203 Join the AASLH Military History Affinity Group as they network Concurrent Sessions and hear from Doran Cart, Curator at the National World War I Museum and Memorial, discuss commemorations and exhibits. 8:30–9:45 am Civil Rights Beyond the South: The Significance of 8:30–9:45 am Missouri in the Black Freedom Struggles of the 1960s XX Room: BH 2209 StEPs Friday Morning MeetUP The civil rights movement of the mid-to-late twentieth century Cost: $10; Preregistration Required remains a focus of popular fascination, yet few audiences are XX Room: BH 2211 aware of the wide-ranging goals, participations, and geograph- When it comes to removing items from an institution’s collec- ical settings that made this movement possible. Using St. tion, the devil is definitely in the details. Along with issues of Louis, Missouri, as an example, this presentation argues transparency, accountability, and ethics, there are also policies that the “classic," post-World War II civil rights movement and procedures that should be in place before deaccessioning of the 1950s and 1960s encompassed local communities occurs. Does your institution have a policy that addresses the outside the regional South—contrary to standard depictions sale, trade, or disposal of collection items? What else needs to of mid-century black social movements. Further, this presen- be done to avoid common deaccessioning pitfalls, unethical tation suggests that as a “border South” state, Missouri was practices, and PR nightmares? Join us for the annual StEPs regionally significant as a battleground between differing Friday Morning MeetUP as we discuss deaccessioning best forms of white racism and black resistance articulated in both practices and issues currently facing the museum field. The the U.S. South and Midwest. This session is sponsored by the self-study StEPs program is helping more than 975 small- to Organization of American Historians as part of the AASLH/ mid-sized organizations across the country assess their poli- OAH History Check-In Series. cies and practices in collections management and other areas Chair: Clarence Lang, PhD, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Session Codes: CE Creative and Experimental HR History Relevance ST Stability and Transparency DI Diversity and Inclusion 36 KANSAS CITY 2018 Communicating Across Divides DI XX Room: CC 2505B How can lessons from social psychology help us share the complexity of history and the difficult stories that challenge people? After a brief overview, we’ll discuss how social psychol- ogy can be applied to some of the most difficult topics and leave with a new framework for understanding our audiences. Chair: Michele Longo, Gadsby’s Tavern Museum/Office of Historic Alexandria, Alexandria, VA; Anna Altschwager, Old World Wisconsin, Eagle, WI Discovering Truth and Unconscious Bias: A Continued Conversation DI XX Room: CC 2505A Kansas City Public LIbrary How diverse and inclusive is the arts and humanities field in the area of employment, policies and procedures, and programs/activities? This session will be a continuation of the Chair: Dina Bailey, International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, pre-conference workshop, providing training and resources to Atlanta, GA; Christian Cotz, James Madison’s Montpelier, Orange, VA; ensure that diverse viewpoints representing race, ethnicity, Kyle Stetz, James Madison’s Montpelier, Orange, VA; Emily Voss, James Madison’s Montpelier, Orange, VA culture, disabilities, and sexual identity are integrated and practiced. Trends and Lessons from the 2018 Leadership in History Chair: Chris Taylor, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN; Marian HR Carpenter, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL; Awards Richard Josey, Collective Journeys, LLC, Maplewood, MN XX Room: CC 2504A What are the trends in the history field? Join the 2018 Lead- Pop Up Session ership in History award winners for lightning presentations XX Room: BH 2210 about why their project matters, how it’s an example of inno- The topic of this session will be announced via Twitter, the vation, and what challenges they overcame. The conversation conference app, and on the conference information board, will conclude with group discussion to identify current trends after voting concludes no later than 2 pm on Thursday. For and success models. more information, see page 4. Chair: Nicholas J. Hoffman, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MO; Jason Crabill, Ohio History Connection, Columbus, OH Ready for Retirement? ST XX Room: BH 2207 The Truth about Millennials as Change-Makers in the Is your long-serving CEO retiring? Are you thinking about Workplace ST retiring? Retiring takes planning and strategic thinking—for XX Room: CC 2504B the executive and for the organization, especially the board. This session will build off of a discussion that began at the Panelists will share their experiences and suggestions for 2018 National Council on Public History meeting. It will building positive retirement transitions for the organization include a productive discussion around the “truth and conse- and the individuals. quences” of a public history workforce that is increasingly Chair: Katherine D. Kane, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford, CT dominated by millennials. It is vital to explore how millennials reconcile generational differences in the workplace as public Telling the Truth about Woman Suffrage: A Roundtable historians seek to explore and expose the complexities of Discussion HR history that have previously been left behind. As a younger XX Room: CC 2502B generation prepares to engage in new methods of historical If our museums and historic sites are to offer an authentic interpretation, how do sites of history and “truth” maintain and diverse narrative for the Centennial of the 19th Amend- public trust? ment in 2020, we need to begin now. In a roundtable format, Chair: Alyssa Constad, General Federation of Women’s Clubs, join your fellow practitioners, historians, and educators to Washington, DC discuss and expand the critical narrative of women’s suffrage. Chair: Page Harrington, Page Harrington & Company, Alexandria, VA; Felicia Bell, PhD, Rosa Parks Museum, Montgomery, AL; Rebecca Price, 9:45–10:45 am Chick History, Nashville, TN; Noelle Trent, PhD, The National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN Break in Exhibit Hall Room: CC 3501 E-H To Tell the Truth: Teaching Difficult History Through an Exhibit HR XX Room: BH 2214 NCPH Poster Session How can a new exhibit stimulate opportunity to innovate XX Room: CC 3501 E-H programs and create purposeful dialogue? James Madison’s The National Council on Public History has partnered with Montpelier shares engagement strategies for visitors, teachers, AASLH to sponsor this Poster Session. Built on NCPH’s model students, and descendants of the enslaved that leveraged for public history presentations that use visual evidence, Montpelier’s challenging, relevant, and emotional exhibit, The presenters will share their work, including works-in-progress, Mere Distinction of Colour. through one-on-one discussion.
Session Codes: CE Creative and Experimental HR History Relevance ST Stability and Transparency DI Diversity and Inclusion AASLH ANNUAL MEETING 37 Friday, September 28 10:45–11:45 am AASLH Meeting of the Membership Case Study Sessions Room: CC 3501 A-D
10–10:30 am Make plans to attend this important meeting to learn about what your organization accomplished in the last year and the More Than Speaking Slowly: Transforming Museum exciting things coming up in 2019. Educational Programs for Bilingual Learners DI Chair: Katherine D. Kane, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford, CT; XX Room: CC 2502A Norman Burns, Conner Prairie, Fishers, IN; John Dichtl, AASLH, Nashville, TN Nobody speaks every language, but your museum can speak to all your visitors! This session examines challenges facing bilingual learners and the reasons bilingual teachers hesitate 11:45 am–12:30 pm to visit museums. Specific steps to transform programs will be addressed as a case study takes a program from English Annual Meeting Attendees Luncheon only to bilingual friendly. Cost: $10 Chair: Debbie Fandrei, The Raupp Museum, Buffalo Grove, IL XX Room: CC 3501 E-H Take time to visit with exhibitors and colleagues in the exhibit Rebels to Roses: Creating a Volunteer Management hall during this informal lunch provided by AASLH. Program ST XX Room: BH 2208 How do you wrangle 1,000+ volunteers who’ve been self-man- Concurrent Sessions aged to the detriment of your organization? Start at the top down, ASAP. Hear how Filoli implemented changes: rewriting 12:30–1:45 pm by-laws, creating a code of conduct, requiring criminal back- ground screenings, and weeding out troublemakers to reform Beyond "Slave" and "Mistress": Improving Women’s rebel volunteers into supportive and productive “roses.” Interpretation at Historic Sites and Museums DI Chair: Susan O’Sullivan, Filoli, Woodside, CA; Paula Allen, Filoli, XX Room: BH 2211 Woodside, CA; Kara Newport, Filoli, Woodside, CA What messages or stereotypes do we present of women in our tours and exhibits? Join the Women’s History and Historic House Affinity Group for an eye-opening presentation on how race, gender, and material culture are used and interpreted at historic sites. Participants will be introduced to an easy- to-use, newly developed assessment methodology and a field test of the methodology applied to the Atlanta History Center. Bring your exhibits to LIFE. The session will help sites and museums envision a more complex and complete women’s history interpretation. Chair: Rebecca Price, Chick History, Nashville, TN; Rebecca Shrum, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN; Jessica VanLanduyt, Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, GA; Jamie Melissa Wilms, Denver Firefighters Museum, Denver, CO Crumbling Pedestals and Monumental Follies: Truth and/or Consequences After Charlottesville HR XX Room: CC 2505A This panel offers space for conversation among public history practitioners regarding the consequences of pursuing the truth of monument culture. Geographically diverse viewpoints and contexts demonstrate the many ways that monuments and the timely issues of race, gender, and class continue to be debated and addressed by historians and communities. Co-Chairs: David Allison, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO, and Laura A. Macaluso, Independent Professional, Lynchburg, VA; Wayne Gannaway, Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, Forest, VA; Modupe Labode, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN; Elizabeth Pickard, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MO; Ben Wright, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX Exploring Ken Burns’s Vietnam War: National and Local Perspectives HR HANDPAINTED MURALS BY JOHN NEAL XX Room: BH 2207 This session, sponsored by the AASLH Military History Affinity WWW.JOHNWNEAL.COM Group, will examine the opportunities presented by Ken
Session Codes: CE Creative and Experimental HR History Relevance ST Stability and Transparency DI Diversity and Inclusion 38 KANSAS CITY 2018 Burns’s 2017 series The Vietnam War. Panelists will discuss The Truth about Troost: The Consequences of Engaging its usefulness for engaging and presenting to our constituents Diverse Students in Conversations about Race Based on and critiques from all perspectives. It will also include a local example from the Kansas City PBS and Kansas City Public Local History HR Library who worked with community partners to create a XX Room: BH 2210 conversation about the local impact of the war. Kansas City is divided by the state line and by Troost Avenue, Chair: Marc Blackburn, Mount Rainier National Park, Ashford, WA; Bill a segregation line created in the mid-20th century. Race Brewster, First Division Museum, Wheaton, IL; Kaite Stover, Kansas City Project KC is an immersive social justice initiative and curric- Public Library, Kansas City, MO ulum that investigates the history and relevance of that divi- sion. Learn about this program from coordinators, educators, Inspiring Discomfort with Change: The New Alaska and student participants. Exhibition at the Anchorage Museum HR Chair: Julie McPike, Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area, Lawrence, KS; XX Room: BH 2214 Olive Henry, Shawnee Mission East, Prairie Village, KS; David Muhammad, The new Alaska exhibition at the Anchorage Museum, which Shawnee Mission East, Overland Park, KS; Mary Shortino, Johnson County Library, Overland Park, KS; Tim Stauffer, Iola Register, Ida, KS opened September 2017, replaced the oldest and largest exhibition of Alaska’s history and material culture, originally installed in 1986. Inevitably and also resolutely, the new exhibition takes a fresh look and some new approaches to 2–3:15 pm telling the story of Alaska. Chair: Shina duVall, Anchorage Museum Association, Anchorage, AK; Keynote Speaker: Kirsten Anderson, Anchorage Museum Association, Anchorage, AK; Aaron Leggett, Anchorage Museum Association, Anchorage, AK Cheryl Brown Henderson Interpreting Controversial Histories through Community Room: CC 3501 A-D Collaboration DI XX Room: CC 2505B How can state and local history professionals build relation- 3:15–4 pm Break in Exhibit Hall ships and share authority with diverse audiences, especially Room: CC 3501 E-H when a history of controversy or institutional mistrust exists? This session will explore strategies for success to inter- pret the complex, controversial past by collaborating with community members and empowering visitors to become historical researchers. Chair: Rebecca Bush, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA; Laura Browder, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA; Stuart Hinds, University of Missouri – Kansas City, Kansas City, MO Nomenclature Reinvented! Making Access to Historical Evidence Easier ST XX Room: CC 2504A Collections provide important historical evidence, and cata- loging must evolve to improve access to them. Learn how Nomenclature is evolving from a book-based authority list to a dynamic, web-based, linked open data platform, thanks to AASLH’s new partnerships with the Canadian Heritage Infor- mation Network and Parks Canada. How will you and your public benefit from this change? Chair: Heather Dunn, Canadian Heritage Information Network, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Paul Bourcier, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI; Jennifer Toelle, Smoky Hill Museum, Salina, KS The Road to Success: Exploring the Intersection between Planning and Innovation CE XX Room: BH 2209 Drawing from the experiences of recent master planning efforts at Gunston Hall and the Dallas Heritage Village, two executive directors and two experienced planning consultants will discuss their experiences with planning processes, how this integrates with interpretive planning for cultural and historic sites, and their lessons learned in this process. Chair: Steven Blashfield, Glave & Holmes Architecture, Richmond, VA; Melissa Prycer, Dallas Heritage Village, Dallas, TX
Session Codes: CE Creative and Experimental HR History Relevance ST Stability and Transparency DI Diversity and Inclusion AASLH ANNUAL MEETING 39 Friday, September 28 Case Study Sessions
3:25–4 pm Extending Avenues of Digital Engagement: Crowdsourcing and the Colored Conventions Project CE XX Room: CC 2502A This case study examines a crowdsourced research curric- ulum that engages students in scholarship that resists dominant narratives of nineteenth-century Black political organizing. It highlights the potential for crowdsourced digital public history projects to engage new audiences in the co-creation of historical knowledge by employing innovative pedagogical practices. Chair: Anna Lacy, University of Delaware, Somers Point, DE; Ethan Barnett, University of Delaware, Somers Point, DE Change Is Hard, Does It Have to Be? ST Innovation and Collaboration: The Secret to XX Room: BH 2214 Organizational Sustainability and Growth CE All change is stressful, but for new initiatives to succeed, XX Room: BH 2208 change must be managed. This session will provide concrete Innovation and organizational change often requires examples of effective change management at historic sites rethinking priorities and engaging new partners. Discussion and museums. The facilitators will work with participants will highlight strategy development and lessons learned as the to identify behaviors they can practice to more effectively Kansas Museums Association created a unique partnership manage change at their own institutions. with the Public Policy and Management Center at Wichita Chair: Trevor Jones, History Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; Linnea Grim, State University to better serve museums, ensure sustain- Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, Charlottesville, VA ability, and expand educational programs. Hire for Culture Or: How I Stopped Worrying and Chair: Lisa Dodson, Kansas Museums Association, Wichita, KS; Shannon Hsu, Shawnee Town Museum, Shawnee, KS; Robert Workman, Learned to Love Improv CE Ulrich Museum at Wichita State University, Wichita, KS XX Room: CC 2504A We need facilitators with the attitude and skills to truly connect with our guests. So how do we hire the right people Concurrent Sessions and create a culture that lets them learn and cultivate these talents? Hear from two different organizations about how they 4–5:15 pm are shaking up their work culture using improv. Chair: Anna Altschwager, Old World Wisconsin, Eagle, WI; Jennifer 2040: A Museum Odyssey HR Scheyer, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL XX Room: BH 2211 To remain relevant, museums must think to the future. That’s NAGPRA: The Truth about Repatriation and the why we’ve brought together change-makers and authors Consequences of Returning Collections DI featured in AAM’s “Museums 2040” issue for a time travel XX Room: BH 2209 adventure. As good historians do, we’ll reveal sources behind The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act the forecasts and invite participants to consider, question, (NAGPRA) has had a huge impact on the work and collections and chart their own museum futures. of museums, state historical societies, and local agencies of Chair: Andrea K. Jones, Peak Experience Lab, Brentwood, MD; Omar all sizes. This panel will explore the challenges and successes Eaton-Martinez, Prince George’s County Parks & Recreation at M-NCPPC, of putting NAGPRA into practice. College Park, MD; Sarah Sutton, Sustainable Museums, Waialua, HI Chair: Ryan Wheeler, PhD, Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology, Andover, MA; David Barland-Liles, Effigy Mounds National Monument, Adapting Existing Programs to Serve Language Learners National Park Service, Harpers Ferry, IA; Sarah O’Donnell, Osage DI Nation Historic Preservation, Pawhuska, OK; Melanie O’Brien, National XX Room: BH 2207 NAGPRA, National Park Service, Washington, DC Learning a language creates opportunities for understanding Racism: Is Your Museum Ready to Talk about It? DI and empathy. Many of our institutions are surrounded by XX Room: CC 2505A schools that serve English Language Learners and a growing How prepared is your museum to talk about race? Many number of students in Dual Language Immersion programs. museums over the past year have garnered unwelcome public Learn how two institutions and an educator are using existing attention due to racial insensitivity. Using critical race theory programs to serve these audiences and create new stake- and case studies, this session will provide the foundation to holders. begin these conversations as they relate to your programs and Chair: Alexandra Rasic, Homestead Museum, City of Industry, CA; Cynthia Gertsen, Ford’s Theatre, Washington, DC; Jeff Weary, James practices. Bridger Middle School, Independence, MO
Session Codes: CE Creative and Experimental HR History Relevance ST Stability and Transparency DI Diversity and Inclusion 40 KANSAS CITY 2018 Chair: Melanie A. Adams, relate to the Truth or Consequences theme and highlight Minnesota Historical Society, ways history is relevant in your community. This is a fun, but St. Paul, MN; Dina Bailey, serious way to share knowledge, expertise, and inspiration. International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, Atlanta, GA Chair: Tim Grove, Grove History Consulting, Falls Church, VA; Megan Wood, Ohio History Connection, Columbus, OH Tech or No Tech? That Is the Question When Engaging the Next Reception Generation in History CE 5:30–6:30 pm XX Room: CC 2505B Using technology tools Thank You Reception coupled with tangible prod- Cost: Free; Invitation Only ucts, you can power-up your XX Room: Marriott 12th Street Room – Lobby Level community outreach and Have you taken an extra step to support AASLH with time or engagement for your historic money? Then please join us for a special thank you reception Kansas City’s Children’s Fountain sites. This highly interactive where we will celebrate our volunteers, donors, and sponsors. session will support you in Amid all the business of the Annual Meeting, AASLH staff expanding your reach to and Council members want to slow down and get to know you stakeholders and new audiences. Participants will see live over drinks and light appetizers. demos and examples that encourage a deep dive exploration into the past. Chair: Shannon Haltiwanger, History Colorado, Denver, CO; Laura vening vent Israelsen, Chesterfield County Public Schools, Chesterfield, VA; Michelle E E Pearson, Adams 12 School District Century Middle School, Thornton, CO 6:30–9 pm
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Session Codes: CE Creative and Experimental HR History Relevance ST Stability and Transparency DI Diversity and Inclusion AASLH ANNUAL MEETING 41 Saturday
September 29
Dole Institute Concurrent Sessions Fulfilling Your Mission When Natural and Manmade Disasters Strike ST 9–10:15 am XX Room: CC 2502A Emergencies and disasters take many forms, HR Betting on History and Culture in Las Vegas including natural and manmade. Without notice, XX Room: BH 2207 we are challenged to be nimble and flexible as we Over the past decade, cultural institutions in Las Vegas have been strive to fulfill our missions. This session explores strengthened by an increased awareness of and desire for community. prevention, preparedness, and response measures This session discusses strategies used by local institutions to reach out to for situations that could happen to us at any time. the community to build a sense of place, a sense of history, and a sense Chair: Aaron Genton, Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, of community. Harrodsburg, KY; Susan Fletcher, The Navigators, Colorado Chair: Jim McMichael, Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, Las Vegas, NV; Springs, CO; Lori Foley, Heritage Emergency National Task Kelly Luchs, Las Vegas News Bureau-Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, Las Force, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Lincoln, Vegas, NV; Aaron Micallef, Springs Preserve, Las Vegas, NV; Ilana Short, Nevada State MA; Pam Schwartz, Orange County Regional History Museum-Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV Center, Orlando, FL
Brutal Truths: Making the New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum DI Innovative Museum Leadership: Challenges XX Room: CC 2502B and Solutions CE “Tell the truth, no matter how brutal.” This directive was given for the XX Room: BH 2208 new Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. How could a historically oppressive This session will examine innovative solutions state build community trust to tell an unflinching story of difficult events? to the challenges of leading museums today, in By representing multiple and complex perspectives, engaging community particular, in response to critical issues in their participation, and developing innovative exhibition design. communities. Leaders who have successfully Chair: Jill Malusky, Hilferty and Associates, Athens, OH; Lucy Allen, Mississippi built or transformed their organizations, expanded Department of Archives and History, Jackson, MS; Katie Blount, Mississippi their programs and facilities, and measured their Department of Archives and History, Jackson, MS; Pamela D. C. Junior, Mississippi impact will share best practices with attendees. Civil Rights Museum, Jackson, MS Chair: Martha Morris, George Washington University, Glen DI Echo, MD; Erin Carlson Mast, President Lincoln’s Cottage, Consequences of Truth for Historic Sites Washington, DC; Marise McDermott, The Witte Museum, XX Room: CC 2505A San Antonio, TX; April Salomon, Musical Instrument What is truth and whose truth are we talking about? Weaving truths into Museum, Phoenix, AZ the visitor’s experience at historic sites can help reveal and heal past trauma and transform visitor and community engagement, creating a lens Interpreting Immigration: Perspectives from through which to view history—one that takes visitors beyond their school Education, Exhibits, and Collections HR textbooks. XX Room: BH 2214 Chair: Regine Kennedy, 106 Group, St. Paul, MN; Sarah Pharaon, International Immigration is a significant—and often, contro- Coalition of Sites of Conscience, New York, NY versial—subject in American history. How can
Session Codes: CE Creative and Experimental HR History Relevance ST Stability and Transparency DI Diversity and Inclusion 42 KANSAS CITY 2018 museums and historical societies interpret this complex The Expanding Role of Museums in Adult Citizenship subject in a way that is relevant to modern audiences? Learn Education DI how immigration and cultural diversity have been interpreted XX Room: BH 2208 by three different institutions through exhibitions, education, and collections. This session explores the potential opportunities for museums Chair: Mary Mikel Stump, Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma, to expand educational services to immigrants in their commu- WA; Mary W. Madden, Kansas Museum of History, Kansas Historical nities who are preparing for naturalization. The discussion Society, Topeka, KS; Fred Poyner IV, The Nordic Heritage Museum, includes topics such as citizenship education program design, Seattle, WA; Gwen Whiting, Washington State Historical Society, adapting exhibits, resources for lower-level English proficiency Tacoma, WA adults, and identifying partnerships with government institu- Pop Up Session tions and community-based organizations. Chair: Kelton Williams, PhD, Division of Citizenship Education and XX Room: BH 2210 Training, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department The topic of this session will be announced via Twitter, the of Homeland Security, Washington, DC; Magdalena Mieri, National conference app, and on the conference information board, Museum of American History, Washington, DC; Angelica Docog, UT-San after voting concludes no later than 2 pm on Thursday. For Antonio Institute of Texas Cultures, San Antonio, TX more information, see page 4. Food in the Gallery? CE U.S. 250th Anniversary Information and Listening XX Room: BH 2207 What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “food in Session HR the gallery?” This panel will address the importance of XX Room: BH 2209 interpreting food in museum exhibits, the risks involved in This session will provide conference attendees an opportunity displaying “edible” artifacts, and a discussion on rethinking to learn more about the current plans for the United States’ traditional rules of “No Food or Drink in the Museum.” 250th anniversary in 2026, and to share their thoughts and Chair: Mary W. Madden, Kansas Museum of History, Kansas Historical ideas about the commemoration with representatives from Society, Topeka, KS; Michelle Moon, Lower East Side Tenement major coalitions and initiatives involved in the process. Museum, New York, NY Chair: Sara Cureton, Director, New Jersey Historical Commission, Trenton, NJ; Jim Campi, Chief Policy and Communications Officer, The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook: A Conversation with American Battlefield Trust, Washington, DC; Jon Grabelle Herrmann, DI USA250, Philadelphia, PA; Gavin Kleespies, Massachusetts Historical the Editors Society, Boston, MA ; Matthew Naylor, National World War I Museum XX Room: CC 2505A and Memorial, Kansas City, MO The co-editors and advisory committee for The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook will solicit ideas and suggestions about this collaborative, open-access digital resource, currently in 10:15–10:30 am Break in Foyer development. They will share a working list of entries, discuss the goals and design of the project, and invite feedback from the audience. Concurrent Sessions Chair: William S. Walker, Cooperstown Graduate Program, SUNY Oneonta, Cooperstown, NY; Modupe Labode, Indiana University-Purdue 10:30 am–12 pm University, Indianapolis, IN; Ashley Rogers, Whitney Plantation, Wallace, LA; Kimberly Springle, Charles Sumner School Museum & Archives, 2019 Annual Meeting Roundtable CE Washington, DC; Robert Weible, Historian, Albany, NY XX Room: BH 2210 Locating and Interpreting the Missouri Trail of Tears HR The program committee for the 2019 Annual Meeting in Phil- XX Room: BH 2209 adelphia wants to hear your ideas for making the next meeting The Missouri Humanities Council and the National Trail of better. What did you like about the Kansas City meeting? Tears Association are undertaking a comprehensive research What should we have done differently? Members of the 2019 project to identify the Trail of Tears routes through Missouri, Annual Meeting program and host committees should attend. including the identification and interpretation of pertinent All meeting participants are welcome. sites along the route and the creation of an extensive GIS. Co-Chairs: Jackie Barton, Director, Historic Sites and Facilities, Ohio History Connection, Columbus, OH; David Young, Delaware Historical Chair: Dr. William S. Belko, Missouri Humanities Council, St. Louis, Society, Wilmington, DE MO; Christopher W. Dunn, JD, GeoVelo, LLC, Columbia, MO; Eva Dunn, Bollinger County Library, Marble Hill, MO; Troy Wayne Poteete, National Trail of Tears Association, Webbers Falls, OK; Mark Spangler, Laclede A Tale of Two Cities: Building Museums That Are County Historical Society, Lebanon, MO Community Centers, Not Monuments to the Past CE XX Room: BH 2214 The Power of Puzzles CE Learn from small history museums in two cities that are both XX Room: CC 2502A developing new museum buildings, both with new exhibition Discover the power of puzzles in engaging people of all ages models. Attendees will acquire ideas from the approaches in historical investigation. Attract and energize new audi- these two museums with limited staff and operating budgets ences to your museum or historical site using budget-friendly are taking to create thriving inclusive community centers that and adaptable escape room inspired programs. Put on your are not stereotypical historical societies. thinking caps and come puzzle over puzzles! Chair: Janice Klein, Director, EightSixSix Consulting, Tempe, AZ; Chair: Amber Kraft, National Archives and Records Administration, Jennifer Landry, City of Irving, Irving, TX; Nate Meyers, City of Chandler, Washington, DC; Allison Campbell, Fort Nisqually Living History Chandler, AZ Museum, Tacoma, WA; Christina Hanson, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC
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idential Library and Museum will introduce you to the truth or Labs consequences that defined the President’s legacy. Beginning with a guided tour of museum exhibits, you will learn how the 1–5:30 pm first four months of President Truman’s administration shaped Cost: $35; Preregistration Required the world we live in today. Then, you will move downstairs to Digital Show and Tell: Innovative (and Low-Cost) Tools the recreated West Wing for the White House Decision Center experience. Step into the roles of President Truman and his CE for Engaging New Audiences advisors, work with formerly classified primary source docu- XX Room: BH 2211 ments, and collaborate to tackle some of history’s greatest Many digital tools exist for organizations to engage with challenges like whether to use the atomic bomb to end WWII diverse audiences at little or no cost. This workshop focuses or how to respond to the Communist invasion of South Korea. on real-world examples from institutions, with suggestions This innovative history lab will expose you to the high stakes and hands-on demonstrations on how to create a collections decision making process of negotiating solutions with cabinet database, build interpretive tools allowing users to interact members and resolving international conflicts creatively. with your content, crowdsource research, and even create virtual reality tours. Interpreting World War I: Engaging Audiences in Chair: Liesl Christman, National World War I Museum and Memorial, “Overlooked” Histories CE Kansas City, MO; Stacie Petersen, National World War I Museum and Memorial, Kansas City, MO XX Location: National WWI Museum and Memorial World War I set the foundation for the modern world, which Inside the White House: The Decision Experience HR can make engaging modern audiences a snap. Have fun XX Location: Harry S. Truman Presidential Library learning about the era’s enduring impact and discover new The butterfly effect of decisions in our everyday lives pales approaches to exploring “overlooked” histories with the in comparison to the impact the actions of our world leaders Education Staff of the National WWI Museum and Memorial. have on all of us. One afternoon at the Harry S. Truman Pres- Chair: Lora Vogt, National World War I Museum and Memorial, Kansas City, MO
44 KANSAS CITY 2018 AASLH would like to recognize the many volunteers who contributed their valuable time, energy, and expertise pecial hanks to the success of this year’s conference. S T Thank you! Program Committee
Tim Grove, Chair Grove HIstory Consulting Washington, DC Melanie Adams Minnesota Historical Society Debby Ludwig Host COmmittee Harry S. Truman Presidential St. Paul, MN Mindi Love Library and Museum Anna Altschwager Johnson County Museum Mindi Love, Co-Chair Independence, MO Old World Wisconsin Shawnee, KS Johnson County Museum Eagle, WI Shawnee, KS Julie McPike Rebecca Martin Freedom’s Frontier National Dina Bailey George Mason’s Gunston Hall Matthew Naylor, PhD, Co-Chair Heritage Area International Coalition of Sites Lorton, VA National World War I Museum and Lawrence, KS of Conscience Memorial Atlanta, GA Katie Moon Kansas City, MO Diane Mutti-Burke Missouri Historical Society University of Missouri, Kansas City Michelle Banks St. Louis, MO Dave Aamodt Kansas City, MO African American Firefighter National Frontier Trails Museum Museum Diane Mutti-Burke Independence, MO Steve Noll Jackson County Historical Society Los Angeles, CA University of Missouri, Kansas City Lucinda Adams Independence, MO Jackie Barton Kansas City, MO The State Historical Society of Ohio History Connection Missouri Steve Nowak Watkins Museum of History Columbus, OH Matthew Naylor, PhD Columbia, MO National World War I Museum Lawrence, MO Kat Burkhart and Memorial Sarah Bader-King Carnegie Museum of Wornall Majors House Museums Jim Ogle Kansas City, MO Freedom’s Frontier National Montgomery County Kansas City, MO Heritage Area Crawfordsville, IN Anne Petersen Santa Barbara Trust for Marissa Baum Lawrence, KS Rich Cooper Historic Preservation American Jazz Museum Conner Prairie Kansas City, MO Charlie Pautler Santa Barbara, CA Shawnee Town Fishers, IN Melissa Prycer Elizabeth Gillam Beckett Shawnee, KS Ray Doswell Dallas Heritage Village Clay County Historic Sites Negro Leagues Baseball Kearney, MO Kimberlee Ried Dallas, TX National Archives and Records Museum Jamie Berry Administration Kansas City, MO Tracy Quillin Kansas Humanities Council University of Missouri, Kansas City Kansas City, MO Linda Endersby Topeka, KS Kansas City, MO Museum of Art and Archaeology, Alana Smith Kathryn Carpenter Westport Historical Society/ University of Missouri Alexandra Rasic Missouri Humanities Council Battle of Westport Columbia, MO Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum St. Louis, MO Kansas City, MO Susan Fletcher City of Industry, CA Jane Davis The Navigators Sonia Smith Linda Hall Library of Science, Freedom’s Frontier National Colorado Springs, CO Kimberlee Ried National Archives and Records Engineering, and Technology Heritage Area Veronica Gallardo Administration Kansas City, MO Lawrence, KS Casemate Museum Kansas City, MO Kristie Dobbins Fort Monroe, VA Jean Svadlenak Ashley Rogers LeCompton Historical Society Svadlenak Museum Consulting Jamie Glavic Whitney Plantation LeCompton, KS Kansas City, MO National Underground Railroad Wallace, LA Jeremy Drouin Freedom Center Blair Tarr Kansas City Public Library Kansas State Historical Society Cincinnati, OH Stuart Sanders Kentucky Historical Society Kansas City, MO Topeka, KS Shakia Gullette Frankfort, KY Paul Gutierrez Missouri Historical Society Anna Marie Tutera Kansas City Museum Kansas City Museum St. Louis, MO Ryan Spencer The Henry Ford Kansas City, MO Kansas City, MO Jim Hodgson Dearborn, MI Shannon Hsu Fort Worth Aviation Museum Mike Vietti Shawnee Town National World War I Museum Fort Worth, TX Blair Tarr Kansas State Historical Shawnee, KS and Memorial Mary Kay Ingenthron Society Katie Keckelsen Kansas City, MO MK Communications Topeka, KS Johnson County Museums Kansas City, MO Lora Vogt Anna Marie Tutera Shawnee, KS National World War I Museum and Sarah Jencks Kansas City Museum Memorial Margaret Keough Kansas City, MO Ford’s Theatre Kansas City, MO Mid-America Arts Alliance Washington, DC Lora Vogt Kansas City, MO Peter Welsh Anne Jones National World War I Museum University of Kansas Adrienne Kizer Lawrence, KS Johnson County Museums and Memorial National World War I Museum and Shawnee, KS Kansas City, MO Memorial Timothy Westcott Sean Kelley Allison Wickens Kansas City, MO Park University Eastern State Penitentiary George Washington’s Mount Petra Kralickova Parkville, MO Philadelphia, PA Vernon National Museum of Toys and Amanda Wiltse Patricia Williams Lessane Mt. Vernon, VA Miniatures Mid-America Arts Alliance Avery Research Center David Young Kansas City, MO Kansas City, MO Charleston, SC Delaware Historical Society Mark Livengood Alexis Woodall Stephen Light Wilmington, DE Missouri Humanities Council Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop and Farm Thomas Jefferson Foundation Don Zuris St. Louis, MO Olathe, KS Charlottesville, VA Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History
Program Design: Gerri Winchell Findley, Suzanne Pfeil, Go Design, LLC Findley, Program Design: Gerri Winchell Corpus Christi, TX AASLH ANNUAL MEETING 45 AASLH acknowledges and appreciates the extraordinary support of our Institutional Partners!
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Partners
Alabama Department of Archives Association of Village Council Presidents Atlanta History Center Avery Research Center for African American and History Bethel, AK Atlanta, GA History and Culture Montgomery, AL Charleston, SC
Belle Meade Plantation Billings Farm & Museum Bullock Texas State History Museum Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House Nashville, TN Woodstock, VT Austin, TX Moline, IL
California Historical Society Cincinnati Museum Center Conner Prairie First Division Museum at Cantigny San Francisco, CA Cincinnati, OH Fishers, IN Wheaton, IL
Florida Division of Historical Resources Hagley Museum & Library Historic Ford Estates Historic House Trust of New York City Tallahassee, FL Wilmington, DE Grosse Pointe Shores, MI New York, NY
46 KANSAS CITY 2018 Partners continued
Historic New England History Colorado History Nebraska Idaho State Historical Society Boston, MA Denver, CO Lincoln, NE Boise, ID
Indiana Historical Society Kentucky Historical Society Maryland National Capital Park & Planning Massachusetts Historical Society Indianapolis, IN Frankfort, KY Commission Boston, MA Marlboro, MD
Michigan History Center Minnesota Historical Society Museum of History and Industry Nantucket Historical Association Lansing, MI St. Paul, MN Seattle, WA Nantucket, MA
National Trust for Historic Preservation North Carolina Office of Archives and History Ohio History Connection Old Sturbridge Village Washington, DC Raleigh, NC Columbus, OH Sturbridge, MA
Patapsco Heritage Greenway Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library Senator John Heinz History Center Ellicott City, MD Commission Lexington, MA Pittsburgh, PA Harrisburg, PA
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza Strawbery Banke Museum The Strong Tennessee State Museum Dallas, TX Portsmouth, NH Rochester, NY Nashville, TN
Thank you for your support as we continue to grow!
Virginia Historical Society Wisconsin Historical Society Wyoming Department of State Parks and AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Richmond, VA Madison, WI Cultural Resources Cheyenne, WY for STATE and LOCAL HISTORY
AASLH ANNUAL MEETING 47 congratulations to the 2018 Leadership in History Award Winners
THE ALBERT B. COREY AWARD Kauffman Museum for the exhibit NEBRASKA Museum of the American Military Sorting Out Race: Examining Racial Nick Batter and Ben Bohall for the Family and Learning Center, Tijeras, Identity and Stereotypes in Thrift Store podcast Neglecta NM, in honor of their project INSIDE Donations OUT: Memories from Inside the Closet NEW JERSEY MAINE Maxine N. Lurie and Richard F. Veit for ALABAMA Seal Cove Auto Museum for the exhibit the publication Envisioning New Jersey: Caroline Marshall Draughon Center Auto Wars: Then & Now An Illustrated History of the Garden for the Arts and Humanities, Auburn State University for the exhibit Remembering MASSACHUSETTS the Great War: Alabama and World War Duxbury Rural and Historical Society NEW MEXICO One for the project Re-imagine Bradford Cordelia Thomas Snow for her contribu- Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association tions to the preservation of the history ALASKA for the project Impressions from a Lost of Santa Fe and New Mexico Atwood Resource Center at the World Coronado Historic Site and the Friends Anchorage Museum for the AFN Photo of Coronado Historic Site for the public Identification Project* MICHIGAN program Dig Kuaua Detroit Historical Society for the exhibit ARIZONA Detroit ’67: Looking Back to Move Silver City Museum for the program 50 Arizona Historical Society’s Pioneer Forward * Years Ago in Silver City Museum for the exhibit Todos Unidos: The Hispanic Experience in Flagstaff MINNESOTA NEW YORK Brown County Historical Society for Boston Historical Society for the Living Chandler Museum for the project Un- History Day program American: Engaging Our Community the exhibit Loyalty and Dissent: Brown with the Story of Japanese Internment County and WWI Leo P. Ostebo for the founding and Goodhue County Historical Society and leadership of the Leo P. Ostebo Kings CONNECTICUT Frederick L. Johnson for the publication Park Heritage Museum Connecticut Historical Society for Patriot Hearts: World War I Passion and Richard Longstreth for the publica- the exhibit Language, Culture, Prejudice in a Minnesota County tion A Guide to Architecture in the Communities: 200 Years of Impact by Adirondacks the American School for the Deaf Marcia G. Anderson for the publication A Bag Worth a Pony: The Art of the PENNSYLVANIA Connecticut Trust for Historic Ojibwe Bandolier Bag Preservation for the project Mills: Museum of the American Revolution for Making Places of Connecticut Minnesota Discovery Center for the their permanent exhibits exhibit Blue-Collar Battleground: The Fairfield Museum and History Center for Iron Range Labor Story TENNESSEE the exhibit Fairfield Museum Commons Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage for the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center for the MISSISSIPPI program Duel! Art of the Southern Stowe House Project Mississippi Civil Rights Museum for Gentleman their permanent exhibits Knights of Columbus Museum for the UTAH exhibit World War I: Beyond the Front MISSOURI Utah Humanities for “The Way We Lines Kansas City PBS and Libraries of Worked” Utah Tour Project Greater Kansas City for the project KC GEORGIA Stories of the Vietnam War VIRGINIA Georgia Historical Society for the pro- Missouri Historical Society for the James Madison’s Montpelier for the gram Live from the Archives: Georgia in exhibit The Mere Distinction of Colour* the American Revolution project #1 in Civil Rights: The African American Freedom Struggle in St. Louis WISCONSIN ILLINOIS The National Museum of Toys and The Neville Public Museum of Brown Glencoe Historical Society for the ex- Miniatures for the exhibit Playing for County for the exhibit Estamos Aquí: hibit Glencoe in The Great War Keeps: The VFW Marble Tournaments, Celebrating Latino Identity in Northeast INDIANA 1947-1962 Wisconsin Indiana Historical Bureau for the pod- MONTANA Oshkosh Public Museum for the exhibit cast Talking Hoosier History Montana Historical Society for the ex- People of the Waters KANSAS hibit Big Game, Big Stories: Montana’s Hunting Heritage and for the project *Recipient of a HIP (History in Progress) Award Johnson County Museum for the exhibit Montana’s African American Heritage Becoming Johnson County Resources
48 KANSAS CITY 2018 2018 Annual Meeting Scholarship/Fellowship Winners Congratulations to the following winners of a scholarship or fellowship to this year’s conference:
2018 KANSAS CITY DIVERSITY Sandy Randel AASLH SMALL MUSEUM FELLOWSHIPS Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum SCHOLARSHIP Arkansas City, KS Sponsored by the William T. Kemper Given by the AASLH Small Museums Foundation Katie Raney Committee to AASLH members who are Given by the 2018 Host Committee to Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept full-time, part-time, paid, or volunteer Bastrop, TX applicants who expand the diversity employees of small museums. of the conference in areas such Laura Rose Cora Arney as ethnicity, gender, age, sexual Mormon Island State Recreation Area Delhi Historical Society orientation, socioeconomic status, Saint Paul, NE Cincinnati, OH and organizational capacity Judy Rose Lynne Calamia Andrew Albertson Doctoral Candidate at Texas Tech Arch Street Meeting House Museum of Indian Arts and Culture University Philadelphia, PA Belton, TX Santa Fe, NM Rebecca Dickman David Allison Ruth Ann Rugg Amana Heritage Society Denver Museum of Nature & Science Coalition of State Museum Associations Cedar Rapids, IA Fort Worth, TX Westminster, CO Dulce Kersting-Lark Marissa Baum Megan Christine Sothan Latah County Historical Society American Jazz Museum Gage County Historical Society Moscow, ID Steele City, NE Kansas City, MO Lori Osborne Samantha Bieler Nathaniel Thomas Frances Willard House Museum Sioux City Railroad Museum Clinton Foundation Evanston, IL Whiting, IA Little Rock, AR Sarah Carlson William Tollerton AASLH SMALL MUSEUM Iowa Jewish Historical Society Vernon County Historical Society Nevada, MO SCHOLARSHIP—ONLINE Waukee, IA CONFERENCE Amanda Vance Sena Dawes Kristen Elford Missouri Historical Society Texas City Museum Texas City, TX Richmond Museum of History St Louis, MO Richmond, CA Lynn Ward Marla Day Sara Evenson K-State Historic Costume and Textile Kenneth Spencer Research Library Lawrence, KS Chenango County Historical Society Museum Norwich, NY Lindsey Young Manhattan, KS Mark Kratzner Sandra Enriquez History Museum on the Square Springfield, MO Red Skelton Museum of American University of Missouri-Kansas City Comedy Kansas City, MO Vincennes, IN Michael Grauer DOUGLAS EVELYN SCHOLARSHIP Kenny Libben National Cowboy Western Heritage FOR DIVERSITY Cleo Redd Fisher Museum Museum Given by AASLH to increase culturally Loudonville, OH Oklahoma City, OK diverse participation at the AASLH Deb Mitchell Andrew Gustafson Annual Meeting Museums Association of Montana Johnson County Museum Petra Alsoofy Helena, MT Overland Park, KS Arab American National Museum Iliana Morton Katherine Haskel Dearborn, MI Camron-Stanford House and Cohen Bray Paul Quinn College Alyssa Jones House Dallas, TX Blythewood Historical Society and Oakland, CA Molly Hutson Museum Laura Rose Overland Park Historical Society Ridgeway, SC Nebraska Game and Parks Commission Overland Park, KS Berlin Loa Saint Paul, NE Dorris Lee Keeven-Franke Independent Contractor William P. Shannon IV Missouri Germans Consortium Grover Beach, CA St. Clair County Historical Society St. Charles, MO Stephanie Lampkin Belleville, IL Brandice Nelson Science History Institute Megan Wozniak Texas General Land Office Philadelphia, PA Glen Ellyn Historical Society Austin, TX Glen Ellyn, IL Aimee Newell Luzerne County Historical Society Wilkes-Barre, PA
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