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Members Saturday, September21 Friday, September20 Thursday, September19 Wednesday, September18 Evening Events Tours Exhibitors Exhibit HallHighlightsandMaps Schedule ataGlance Meeting Highlights Featured Speakers Session Updates Registration DeskHours Need toKnow Welcome fromtheChairs Special ThanksandSponsors ______Pre-meeting Workshops Sessions and Programs contents 36 31 26 24 23 20 11 10 40 8 7 6 5 5 5 2 Welcome to Birmingham!

irmingham is a city that has reoriented its history, inspiring international human rights movements. It is the perfect place to think and talk about how stories of ordinary people and extraordinary change inspire and inform us, our publics, our programs, and outreach. This 2013 Annual Meeting, with partner the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, considers how history organizations can change the way they do things, takingB issues and turning them into solutions, by using ordinary people to tell extraordinary stories. Focusing on the famous names of history neglects the unnamed people who insisted on their rights, worked together, and who were anything but ordinary in their courage and was resolve. nicknamed Founded the in“Magic 1871 center of the New South, Birmingham as a transportation and industrial City” for its fast growth. And it was the center of a movement that caught the attention of the world and led to the 1964 Civil Rights Act and, in later years, the Birmingham Pledge to eliminate prejudice. The 1963 Birmingham Summer transformed the city and changed the United States.

Fifty years after hundreds of young people stood solid for freedom. Fifty years after King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” articulated principles of nonviolence. Fifty years later we ask: If history is the example, the provocateur, and the context—how do we best use it today? How do we incorporate stories of ordinary people’s extraordinary lives in our institutions? How can we build programs that deal directly with issues, making history interesting, relevant, useful, and human? What interesting and unusual techniques do you use to fulfill your organization’s mission? What kinds of program ideas are you trying out that are a little different from what you’ve always done? How do you encourage active involvement from your public? What have you tried that hasn’t been as successful as you want? How do you take the history your organization uses and connect it to people’s lives? How is change reflected in your institution’s programs? What ideas and examples are there in local history that can inspire us?

The 2013 AASLH Annual Meeting includes enriching educational sessions, pleasurable evening events, and exciting tours packed with opportunities to learn, network, and enjoy. Keynote speaker Natasha Trethewey, U.S. Poet Laureate, will use history and memory to uplift us. Plenary speaker Doudou Diène will discuss the international work of history. At the awards banquet, hear Alabama historian Dr. Ed Bridges and honor the best in state and local history. And as a special treat, in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, hear from Carolyn McKinstry, a survivor of the 1963 bombing. your knowledge, helps you Meeting energizes you, expands We hope that the AASLH 2013 Annual make connections between the present and the past, and allows you to discover resources for the work you do in the field of state and local history.

Sincerely,

Angela Fisher-Hall Katherine Kane Host Committee Chair Program Chair Birmingham Public Library Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

2 Of f i c e o f t h e Go v e r n o r St a t e Ca p i t o l Mo n t gom e r y , Al a b a m a 36130 Ro b e r t Be n t l e y (334) 242-7100 Go v e r n o r Fa x : (334) 242-3282

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September 17, 2013

Greetings:

As Governor, I would like to welcome you to the American Association of State and Local History Annual Meeting held in Birmingham, Alabama on September 17–21, 2013.

Organized in 1945, the AASLH is the only comprehensive national organization dedicated to the field of state and local history. I am confident that you will be presented with invaluable information and knowledge at this year’s convention.

While in Birmingham, I hope you will take advantage of the many cultural, historical, and recreational activities that your host city has to offer. Upon completion of the convention, many of you will be returning to your homes and I wish you a safe and pleasant journey.

Again, welcome to the American Association of State and Local History Annual Meeting and best wishes for a memorable event.

Sincerely,

Robert Bentley Governor

RB/pb/dr Office of the Mayor City of Birmingham William A. Bell, Sr. Mayor

September 17, 2013

American Association of State and Local History 2013 Annual Meeting Birmingham, Alabama

Dear Friends:

On behalf of the City of Birmingham, it is my distinct pleasure to extend a cordial welcome to the American Association of State and Local History. We are glad to have you in our great city on September 18–21, 2013 for the 2013 Annual Meeting, which will serve as a great contribution to the social, spiritual, and economic life of Birmingham.

While visiting Birmingham, I invite each of you to explore some of the great attractions we have to offer. You will find that we are a city united, as evidenced by the growth of our business and industrial sectors, the addition of new and expanded hotels, our thriving cultural and entertainment districts, and a strong sense of progress and civic spirit.

Once again, welcome and best wishes for a successful conference.

Sincerely,

William A. Bell, Sr. Mayor

710 North 20th Street Birmingham Alabama 35203 (205) 254-2277 Fax (205) 254-2926 Need to Know

1. All meeting rooms, ballroom, and the exhibit hall are located in the East section of the Birmingham Jefferson Sessions and Annual Meeting County Convention Center. Select meals will be held at Evaluations the Sheraton and are noted in the program guide. Help us improve! Session evaluations are placed in each meeting room. Please take a few minutes to complete the 2. Name badges must be worn at all times. form at the end of the session. An overall Annual Meeting evaluation will be emailed after the meeting. 3. Only registered attendees will be allowed to attend sessions and workshops.

4. Nonregistered guests are not allowed to attend sessions or workshops but may purchase tickets to attend tours and other special events. Please check with AASLH Session Updates registration desk for availability. SESSION Cancelled Your purchased tickets are located in your registration 5.  Meeting the Needs of African American Cultural packet. Please check them for the appropriate meeting Heritage Practitioners times and locations for special events. Thursday, September 19, 4 pm has been cancelled. 6. Tickets are necessary for all workshops, labs, luncheons, SESSION Rescheduled tours, and evening events. (A ticket is not required for the membership luncheon on Friday.) Please show your Shift Change: Organizational Culture Shifts to ticket before boarding buses or entering an evening Address Contemporary Issues, and Use of New event. If you’d like to purchase tickets, please visit the forms of Community Engagement is now Friday, September 20, 4 pm AASLH registration desk. Some events may be sold out.

Workshop Cancelled

Digital Collections 101: Creating a Digital Presence for Your Museum Saturday, September 21 has been cancelled. AASLH Registration Desk Hours Tours Cancelled The Past and Future of Birmingham The AASLH Annual Meeting registration desk is Wednesday, September 18 has been cancelled. located in the main level lobby of the Convention Center. The desk will be staffed during the following Florence: Alabama’s Renaissance City times to answer any questions you may have during Saturday, September 21 has been cancelled. the meeting.

Tuesday, September 17 ������������������������� 3–5 pm

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Thursday, September 19 ��������������� 7 am–6 pm

Friday, September 20 ��������������������� 7 am–5 pm

Saturday, September 21 ������������� 8 am–12 pm

in partnership with the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience 5 Speakers

Church. She was among thousands in 1993. In this capacity, he directed of students hosed by firemen during various projects on intercultural Natasha Trethewey, the 1963 marches. She survived a dialogue, including the Slave Route, Thursday’s keynote speaker, is the second bomb explosion that destroyed Routes of Faith, Routes of al-Andalus, 19th United States Poet Laureate a large portion of her home in 1964. and Iron Roads in Africa. In 1998 (2012–13). In his citation, Librarian An “authentic child of the movement,” he was placed in charge of activities of Congress James Billington wrote, Carolyn believes that God spared her pertaining to inter-religious dialogue. “Her poems dig beneath the surface of life on September 15, 1963, so that In 2002, he was appointed by the history—personal she could continue to live in service Commission on Human Rights as or communal, from to others. She is now a citizen of Special Rapporteur on contemporary

childhood or from Joel Benjamin the world, and an ordained itinerant forms of racism, racial discrimination, a century ago—to messenger of the gospel. xenophobia, and related intolerance, explore the human a mandate in which he served until struggles that we July 2008. He is also active with the all face.” She International Coalition of Sites of Doudou Diène, Friday’s is the author of Conscience. Thrall, Native keynote speaker, was born in Senegal Guard, for which in 1941. Doudou Diène was a she won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, prizewinner in philosophy in Senegal’s Bellocq’s Ophelia, which was named Concours Général. Edward Bridges, a Notable Book for 2003 by the Having joined awards banquet speaker, graduated American Library Association, and the UNESCO from Furman University in Greenville, Domestic Work. She is also the author Secretariat in South Carolina, and received his M.A. of Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the 1977, in 1980 and Ph.D. in history from the University Mississippi Gulf Coast. A memoir is he was appointed of Chicago. He taught history in high forthcoming in 2013. Director of school in Greenville and also taught at the Liaison Georgia Tech before joining the staff Office with the of the Georgia Department of Archives United Nations, and History in 1976. After six years Carolyn McKinstry Permanent Doudou Diène at the Georgia Archives, where he last will deliver a special presentation for Missions and United Nations served as Assistant Director, he was the AASLH conference at the 16th departments in New York. Prior to this, appointed Director Street Baptist he had served as deputy representative of the Alabama Church on of Senegal to UNESCO and, in that Department of Thursday capacity, as Vice President and Archives and

Belmont University evening. Secretary of the African Group and History in 1982 and Carolyn was Group of 77. Between 1985 and 1987, retired in 2012. present on he held the posts of Deputy Assistant Ed’s professional September Director-General for External Relations, interests have 15, 1963, spokesperson for the Director-General, centered on

at the 16th and acting Director of the Bureau of the historical Alabama Department of Archives and History Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Public Information. After a period as background of current policy issues and when white racists bombed the church. Project Manager of the Integral Study on the management of modern records. Carolyn’s four young friends were killed. of the Silk Roads: Roads of Dialogue He has been active in national archival As a teenager, Carolyn felt her “calling” aimed at revitalizing East-West organizations and also with information by attending the mass meetings and dialogue, he was appointed Director of policy and Alabama history groups in rallies at the 16th Street Baptist the Division of Intercultural Projects the state.

6 Highlights

Sharing Your Ideas and International Coalition of Sites of Opportunities Conscience Track he International Coalition of Sites of Conscience is The Annual Meeting includes activities and networking proud to partner with AASLH on its 2013 Annual especially for the field of state and local history! In additional Conference. The Coalition is the only worldwide to sponsored sessions throughout the meeting, you’re invited T network specifically dedicated to transforming places that to attend the following AASLH Affinity Group events to discuss preserve the past into spaces that promote civic action. the latest issues, share ideas, and to be inspired: As a network of more than 300 Sites of Conscience in 47 • Corporate History Museums and Archives countries, we engage millions of people every year in powerful Luncheon on Thursday participatory programs that bring people together across difference and build the global movement to connect past to • Court and Legal History present, memory to action. Luncheon on Thursday Conference participants are welcome to attend any and all • Directors sessions within the Sites of Conscience track, developed to Breakfast and Session on Thursday share bold, effective programs that connect the history of • Educators and Interpreters communities with critical social issues in their region and Session and Luncheon on Thursday discuss how we may link these efforts across the world. • Historic House Museums Please plan to join us for a reception on Friday, September Breakfast on Friday 20, at 5:30 pm to meet our member sites and find out more about our work. • Military History Breakfast on Saturday Wednesday, September 18 • Small Museums Luncheon and Small Museums Day on Thursday 8:30 am–12 pm Workshop: We Listened: How to Conduct a Listening Session • Visitors’ Voices Luncheon on Friday 8:30 am–5 pm Workshop: Embracing Divergent Memories through Dialogue Design and Facilitation

Thursday, September 19 Connect With Us 8:30–9:45 am Working with the Community to Address Things That Matter Locally 2013 Annual Meeting Blog 1:30–2:45 am Latino New South: A New Lens Get excited about the conference by Into Institutional and Community visiting the 2013 Annual Meeting Engagement Blog. Prepare for the conference 4–5:15 pm The National Dialogues on Immigration with posts on our theme: Ordinary People, Project Extraordinary Change. Also, keep up with what is going on throughout the conference as Friday, September 20 attendees provide a “man/woman on the ground” perspective of conference sessions and events. 8:30–9:45 am The Memphis Initiative: A Case Study in Community Partnerships www.aaslhcommunity.org/am2013 10:45 am–12 pm Featured Speaker: Doudou Diène Twitter 4–5:15 pm International Collaboration: Extraordinary Benefits Share your comments about the conference on Twitter. 4–5:15 pm Shift Change: Organizational Culture Shifts to Address Contemporary Issues Use hashtag #AASLH2013. and Use New Forms of Community Engagement 5:30– 6:30 pm Sites of Conscience Reception

Saturday, September 21 9–10:15 am Movement Creates Museum: Activist Beginnings of History Institutions

in partnership with the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience 7 Schedule at a Glance

1:30–2:45 pm Tuesday Thursday • Are We Safe? What Protection Do We Have September 17 September 19 Against Armed Intruders? �������� Room: East L 3–5 pm 7 am–6 pm • Entering the Mainstream, Interpreting GLBT History: Challenges • Registration • Registration and Opportunities ���������������Room: East K 7–8:30 am • Latino New South: A New Lens into Institutional and • Tour: Civil Rights Walking Tour, Cost: $25 Wednesday Community Engagement ��������� Room: East F September 1 7:15–9:45 am • The Many Faces of Mentoring: 8 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow . . Room: East J • Director’s Breakfast and Session, Cost: $30 7 am–6 pm ������������Birmingham Ballroom 9 (Sheraton) • Using Legal Documents in • Registration Civil Rights History Exhibits ����� Room: East C 8:30–9:45 am 8 am–5 pm • Vintage or Artifact? Collecting • Diversity: Positive Programs in the 20th and 21st Centuries �����Room: East B • Tour: Montgomery: Civil War and Civil Corporate Archives, Museums, Rights, Cost: $75 and Visitors Centers �������������Room: East K • Where’s the Humanity in Science, Technology, Engineering, • History Matters! A Movement to Create a 8:30 am–12 pm and Math (STEM)? ��������������Room: East N National Brand for History �������Room: East O • Workshop: Financial Management • Managing Change: The Keys to Successful 2:45–3:45 pm Bootcamp, Cost: $45 ������������ Room: East J Transitions within Historic • Break ����������������������������Exhibit Hall • Workshop: We Listened: How to Conduct a Organizations �������������������� Room: East L 4–5:15 pm Listening Session, Cost: $45 ���� Room: East L • NEH 2013: Making Extraordinary Change with NEH Support ���������������Room: East B 8:30 am–3:30 pm • Curating the Confederacy ������Room: East B • Ordinary People with Extraordinary Stories of • CEO Forum: A National Branding Strategy • The Importance of Addressing Difficult Birmingham ��������������������� Room: East A for History, Cost: $150/$220 for two from Topics in History ����������������� Room: East L same organization. For institutions with • Small Museums, Big Impact ��� Room: East C • Mergers, Alliances, and Partnerships: What’s budgets of $1 million+ Right, What’s Wrong, What’s • Turning Points: An Educators and �����Room: Birmingham Ballroom 3 (Sheraton) Deadly? ��������������������������Room: East O Interpreters Meeting Kick-Off ����Room: East N 8:30–5:30 pm • The National Dialogues on Immigration • What Happened to All the People? Project �������������������������� Room: East F • Tour: Highlights from 700 Years of Alabama Researching and Interpreting the Ordinary History, Cost: $75 People and Extraordinary Change of the Border • Quick and Dirty DIY Mobile Content Creation War ������������������������������ Room: East J and App Development �����������Room: East K 8:30–5 pm • Working with Community to Address Things • Recruiting, Orienting, and Engaging Board • Workshop: Embracing Divergent Memories That Matter Locally �������������� Room: East F Members ������������������������ Room: East A through Dialogue Design and Facilitation, Cost: $75 ����������������������� Room: East F 9:45–10:45 am • The Toolkit Talks: Sharing Resources for Small Museums �����������������Room: East N • Workshop: Giving Voice to the Long-Silenced • Break ����������������������������Exhibit Hall Millions: Best Practices for Interpreting 5:45–6:45 pm Slavery at Historic Sites and Museums, Cost: • First-Time Attendee �������������������� $75 �����������������������������Room: East K Reception Room: East G–H • Special Speaker: Carolyn McKinstry, Cost: Free ��������������� 16th Street Baptist Church 1–5 pm 10:45 am–12 pm 6:45–9 pm • Tour: Corporate History Tour, Cost: $45 • Keynote Address: Natasha Trethewey ��������������������������������� Room: East Ballroom B • Evening Event: A Walk Through 1:30–5:30 pm Birmingham’s Civil Rights History, Cost: $45 12–1:15 pm • Workshop: Field Services Alliance Meeting, All Luncheons in Sheraton Cost: Free ����������������������� Room: East L • Corporate History/Visitors’ Voices Luncheon, 1:30–5 pm Cost: $35 ����������� Birmingham Ballroom 12 Friday • Workshop: I Collected Surveys, Now • Court and Legal History Luncheon, September 20 Cost: $35 ����������� Birmingham Ballroom 11 What? Tools for Analyzing and Using Visitor 7 am–6 pm Feedback, Cost: $45 ������������ Room: East J • Educators and Interpreters Luncheon, Cost: $35 �������������Birmingham Ballroom 9 • Registration 2:15–5:15 pm • Small Museums Luncheon, 7–8:30 am • Lab: The Force of Sports: Connecting Cost: $35 �������������Birmingham Ballroom 1 Communities through Sports History, Cost: • Breakfast: Historic House Museum, Cost: $25 ������������� Alabama Sports Hall of Fame 1–5 pm $30 ��������Birmingham Ballroom 1 (Sheraton) 6:30–9 pm • Tour: Sites and Sounds of Historic Birmingham, Cost: $45 • Evening Event: The Magic City’s Food, Music, and Industry, Cost: $45

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8:30 am–12:30 pm • Universities and Local History: Building 9–10:15 am Connections ��������������������� Room: East A • Driving Tour: Birmingham’s Captains of • Commemorating Controversy: The Dakota– Industry, Cost: $45 • Volunteers: Ordinary People, Extraordinary U.S. War of 1862 ���������������Room: East K Change �������������������������� Room: East C 8:30–9:45 am • The Continuum of Excellence and How Your 3:30–4 pm Museum Can Be a Part of It ����� Room: East J • Field Services Alliance Presents Museum Tips ����������������������������� Room: East J • Break ����������������������������Exhibit Hall • From Reconstruction to Desegregation: Oral History and the African American Experience • Focusing on the Future to Preserve the Past: 4–5:15 pm in Northwest Examining Trends to Navigate Ongoing Change Alabama ������������������������� Room: East L ���������������������������������Room: East N • Becoming Alabama: Engaging the Public in a State’s Story through Collaborative • Movement Creates Museum: • Forging Business and Academic Alliances Public History ������������������� Room: East C Activist Beginnings of History in Training Historians for the 21st Century Institutions ���������������������� Room: East F Marketplace ��������������������� Room: East L • IMLS Community Anchors: Stories from the Field ����������� Room: East A • Practical Solutions for Rethinking • Grassroots Efforts to Save Buildings Create Our Collections and How Community Treasures ������������Room: East K • International Collaboration, We Use Them �������������������Room: East G Extraordinary Benefits ����������� Room: East L • Meeting Visitor Expectations with the Visitors • Social Media Madness! �������� Room: East C Count! Program ������������������Room: East B • Many Voices: One Chorus for Your Collection ���������������Room: East G • Trends in Local History: Lessons Learned • The Memphis Initiative: A Case Study in from the Encyclopedia of Local Community Partnerships ��������� Room: East F • The Period of Significance is NOW: History, 2nd Edition �������������Room: East B Catalytic Change at National • Playing Games with History ���� Room: East C Trust Historic Sites �������������� Room: East J • We Have a Difficult Story to Tell, Now What? ���������������������� Room: East A • Using Visitor Input for a Business Model • Shift Change: Organizational Culture That Works ����������������������Room: East O Shifts to Address Contemporary 10:15–10:45 am • Where are the Women at Historic Sites? Issues and Use New Forms of Community Engagement ��������� Room: East F • Break ���������������� Room: East Lobby D–M ��������������������������������� Room: East A • Small Museum Leadership Considered: 10:45 am–12 pm 9:45–10:45 am Picking Your High-Priority Project ��������������������������Room: East N • 2014 Annual Meeting • Break ����������������������������Exhibit Hall Roundtable ����������������������Room: East G • National Council on Public History Poster • Tie—A Thinking Big at Historic Sites Futures Scenarios Game ���Room: East O • The Birmingham Civil Rights Heritage Trail Session ����������������������������Exhibit Hall and the Future of Cultural • Turning Historic House Museums Tourism ��������������������������Room: East K 10:45 am–12 pm Upside Down: Teens Reinterpret • Direct Care: Pushing the Exterior • Keynote Speaker: DouDou Diène a House �������������������������Room: East K Envelope ������������������������ Room: East F ����������������������� Room: East Ballroom B • Working with the Deaf Community ����������������������Room: East B • Escaping “Great Men” History on a Budget: 12–1 pm DIY Gallery Renovations ��������� Room: East C • AASLH Membership and Networking 5:15–6 pm • Lessons from the Field: Collaboration Luncheon, Cost: Free ��������������Exhibit Hall • Developing Leaders @SHA Reception, and Access in Oral History ������� Room: East E Cost: Free ���������������������� Room: East M 1–2 pm • Lights, Camera, Alabama: Making Movies about Local History ������ Room: East L • AASLH Meeting of the Membership 5:30–6:30 pm ������������������������������ East Ballroom B • International Coalition of Sites of Conscience • Whose History Are You Getting? Exploring the Neglected Reception, Cost: Free ������������Room: East D 2–2:15 pm Stories in Your Community ������� Room: East A 6:30–9:30 pm • Break ����������������������������Exhibit Hall 1:30–4:30 pm • AASLH Leadership in History Awards 2:15–3:30 pm • Tour: Birmingham City Center Over the Banquet, Cost: $60 ����������������� East Ballroom A Decades, Cost: $25 • Creating Meaningful Outcomes for Programs and Exhibits �������Room: East N 1:30–5 pm • Enlivening Historic Sites • Lab: Exhibition Research, Oral History, and with the Arts ��������������������� Room: East J Saturday Artifact Collection: One Museum’s Community- September • Financial and Mission Questions 21 Based Approach, Cost: $25 ����������� Vulcan Park and Museum Boards Should Ask and Staff 8 am–12 pm Should Answer ������������������ Room: East L • Lab: The SHA Saturday Seminar: Preview, • Registration • Historic Turning Points Fueling Contemporary Renew, or Refresh Your Leadership Potential, Cost: $25 ��������� Alabama Sports Hall of Fame Change �������������������������� Room: East F 7:30–8:45 am • Integrating African American Voices into • Breakfast: Military History Affinity Group, Historic Plantation Tours ���������Room: East O Cost: $30 ��� Birmingham Ballroom 1 (Sheraton)

• Religious Places and the Civil Rights 8 am–5 pm Movement �����������������������Room: East K • Tour: Tuskegee’s Extraordinary History, • Taking the Right StEPs Together: Starting a Cost: $75 StEPs Group in Your State �������Room: East B

in partnership with the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience 9 Exhibit Hall Schedule and Facility Layouts

Explore New Products and Services Food, Drinks, and Networking in the Exhibit Hall The Exhibit Hall features networking, food, and beverages n Thursday and Friday, don’t miss your chance to during the Annual Meeting. Take a break and join us! meet this year’s vendors and suppliers. The Exhibit O Hall is your place to network and check out the latest Thursday, September 19 technology and services. You can also visit the AASLH Career 9 am Exhibit Hall Opens Center to find your next job or post a job opening with your 9:45–10:45 am Morning Refreshment Break organization. Finally, check in at the office or post to Twitter 2:45–3:45 pm Afternoon Refreshment Break or Facebook about the conference at the Email Center and 5:15 pm Exhibit Hall Closes Cyber Café. Friday, September 20 9 am Exhibit Hall Opens 9:45–10:45 am Morning Refreshment Break National Council on Public NCPH Poster Session History Poster Session 12–1 pm Free Membership Luncheon e sure to stop by the exhibit hall on 4 pm Exhibit Hall Closes B Friday morning to hear from students in Public History programs around the country.

Friday, September 20 9:45-10:45 am Exhibit Hall

Around the Bend: Interpreting North Bend State Park’s Jenny Boulware West Virginia University Stone Features Abigail Cioffi Alee Robins

Conducting Preservation Needs Assessments for Historic Jenna Cooper University of Texas at Austin House Museums

Cypress Gardens: Promoting Racial Hierarchy in Paradise Mary C. Kelley University of Central Florida

Education in Global Public History: Curricular Innovations Tammy S. Gordon, Ph.D. University of North Carolina in the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Public at Wilmington History Program

Guantanamo Public Memory Project Sean Baker University of West Florida Jane Gangne Jamie Gray Jeremy Hatcher Martha Tye

An Historical Footnote: Williamston Freedom Movement, Amanda Smith North Carolina State 1957–1970 University

League of Women Voters: Decades of Political Activism Kelcie Lloyd University of West Florida in the Pensacola Bay Area Ashley Goethe

Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site: Food Preservation Danielle DiGiacomo Eastern Illinois University and Herb Use Program Anna Mullen

Miles of Memories: Shared Authority and Traveling 219 Andrew Mack West Virginia University Jennifer Miller

Miss Enid Justin: The Legacy of Nocona Boot Company Jessee Wayne Beckham Texas Tech University and the Lady Boot Maker

Outcome-Based Evaluation for The Hermitage, Andrew Jane-Coleman Harbison Brown University Jackson, and a Changing America

Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum: Interpreting Madness Eliza Newland West Virginia University

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exhibit hall 2013 exhibitor Guide

Company...... Booth Number

AASLH...... #411 and #413

AltaMira Press/Rowman & Littlefield. . . . . #103 and #105

American Alliance of Museums...... #301 American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works...... #203

Bear Wallow Books, Publishers, Inc...... #216

Blackbaud, Inc...... #101 Black Belt Museum and the Center

for the Study of the Black Belt ...... #113

Brad Larson Media ...... #219

Charlotte Van & Storage Co., Inc...... #401

Creative Company ...... #321

CuraTour...... #116

Dorfman Museum Figures, Inc...... #221

Eduweb...... #100

Gaylord Bros...... #400 Historical Research Associates / Next Exit History ...... #405

HistoryIT...... #106

Hollinger Metal Edge, Inc...... #200

Institute of Museum and Library Services...... #217

International Coalition of Sites of Conscience ...... #415

K Design...... #210

Lamcraft, Inc...... #117

LYRASIS / ArchivesSpace...... #312

Making History Connections...... #204

Malone Design ...... #121

Markel ArtWorks...... #303

Method-1 Interiors...... #102

National Endowment for the Humanities...... #112

National Trust Insurance Services...... #205

NEH on the Road/Mid-America Arts Alliance...... #110

Northeast Document Conservation Center...... #201

Northern Micrographics...... #114 Sheraton Ballrooms Northern States Conservation Center...... #220 Rooms A–C, Ballrooms OnCell...... #207

OurStateHistory.com...... #104

Past Perfect Software...... #111

Quatrefoil Associates ...... #202

Riggs Ward Design...... #118

Selago Design...... #311

Southern Custom Exhibits...... #212

The Donning Company Publishers ...... #211

The History Press...... #300

The History Workshop...... #402 University of Oklahoma—

College of Liberal Studies...... #213 East Exhibition Hall Rooms D–O Vista Group International, Inc...... #119

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your exhibit’s displays, or design /exhibit companies, dozens of prestigious awards, Historical Research augment your organization’s and private clients. DMF also including sixteen MUSE Awards Associates /Next Exit site. CuraTour’s applications fabricates a comprehensive from the American Association History can also facilitate users’ ability line of conservationally sound of Museums and four Awards Booth #405 to communicate with friends forms out of Ethafoam™ for of Merit from AASLH. Visit our and immediately send them storage and display of high booth to see our augmented- Contact: Beth Bramhall recommendations, building the value artifact clothing. We are reality historic site apps! PO Box 7086 highly sought after word-of- constantly adding to our line of Missoula, MT 59807 mouth marketing that is so vital products so let us know if you Gaylord Bros. Phone: 406-721-1958 to cultural and heritage tourism. need something that you don’t Booth: #400 Email: [email protected] see on our website. Contact: Susan Hale Web: www.hrassoc.com and Dorfman Museum 7282 William Barry Blvd. www.nextexithistory.com Figures, Inc. Eduweb Syracuse, NY 13212 Next Exit History™ is your 21st- century solution for heritage Booth: #221 Booth: #100 Phone: 315-634-8632 David T. Schaller tourism interpretation and Contact: Joe Bezold Contact: Email: [email protected] 6224 Holabird Ave. 1776 Iglehart Ave. promotion. This powerful suite Web: www.gaylord.com of mobile and web platforms Baltimore, MD 21224 St. Paul, MN 55104 Gaylord understands your empowers communities, Phone: 800-634-4873 Phone: 651-641-7566 dedication to the preservation museums, and historic sites to Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] of the artifacts and collections utilize innovation to promote Web: www.museumfigures.com Web: www.eduweb.com in your care. We offer a wide awareness, educate the public, Dorfman Museum Figures, Inc. Eduweb develops award- range of quality archival and increase visitorship. Next (DMF) has been serving the winning learning games and supplies to address your Exit History™ is a tool designed museum community for over interactives for the web, specific preservation, storage, by historians for historians and 50 years. Originally specializing museum exhibits, and mobile and exhibit needs. Gaylord also our team can work with any size in creating life-size, life-like devices. Our mission is to create continues to offer customization organization to help meet their figures for museums, DMF exciting and effective learning options that let you extend heritage tourism interpretive has sculpted the likenesses of experiences that hit the sweet beyond the boundaries of needs. over 800 people and created spot where learning theory, traditional products. Visit us at over 5,000 realistic figures digital technology, and fun Booth #400 to see what’s new for museums, visitor centers, meet. Our projects have won or online at www.gaylord.com.

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HistoryIT Institute of Museum and Web: www.sitesofconscience.org signage. We research, write, Booth: #106 Library Services The International Coalition illustrate, design, fabricate, Contact: Kristen Gwinn-Becker Booth: #217 of Sites of Conscience is a and oversee installation of interpretive graphics for 245 Commercial St., #201 Contact: Katherine Maas worldwide network of historic sites, museums, and initiatives museums, nature centers, and Portland, ME 04101 1800 M St. NW, 9th Floor that activate the power of places zoos. Phone: 847-716-0030 Washington, DC 20036 of memory to engage the public Email: [email protected] Phone: 202-653-4798 with a deeper understanding Lamcraft, Inc. Web: www.historyit.com Email: [email protected] of the past and to inspire Booth: #117 HistoryIT specializes in Web: www.imls.gov action toward a just future. Contact: Barbara Hohenstein the review, preservation, The Institute of Museum and The Coalition provides member 4131 NE Port Dr. digitization, presentation, and Library Services is the primary sites with direct funding for Lee’s Summit, MO 64064 electronic management of source of federal support civic engagement programs, Phone: 816-795-5505 historical collections. for the nation’s libraries and organizes learning exchanges, museums; its mission is to and conducts strategic Email: [email protected] Hollinger Metal Edge, inspire libraries and museums advocacy for sites addressing Web: www.museumbookmark Inc. to advance innovation, lifelong contemporary social issues. collection.com Booth: #200 learning, and cultural and civic Lamcraft, Inc. is an American- owned company with over Contact: Bob Henderson engagement. K Design Booth: #210 thirty-five years of experience 9401 Northeast Dr. in the bookmark industry. Fredericksburg, VA 22408 International Coalition of Contact: Kathy Kelley Sites of Conscience You will not find a better Phone: 323-721-7800 942 Harborview Dr. laminated bookmark anywhere. Booth: #415 Email: [email protected] Memphis, TN 38103 Our lamination is of higher Sarah Pharaon, Web: www.hollingermetaledge. Contact: Phone: 901-523-2828 quality, more durable, and our com Program Director for North Email: [email protected] bookmarks are printed on the America Archival, preservation, and Web: www.k-designgraphics. highest grade paper available. conservation storage materials. 10 W 37th St., 6th Floor com Lamcraft customers receive New York, NY 10018 Since its inception in 1984, professional custom designs Phone: 646-397-4272 K Design has focused on the with no additional set up fees, Email: spharaon@ development of environmental running charges or hidden sitesofconscience.org graphic design and interpretive fees. Every creation is a unique

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one-of-a-kind creation. Your Making History provides complete exhibit Providers of insurance to those museum does not have to Connections development and fabrication who preserve, collect and deal settle for bookmarks made with Booth: #204 services to the museum in extraordinary property. inferior paper and laminate. community. We have Contact: Dale Jones When you buy from Lamcraft, approximately 50 years of 14011 Ardara Ct. Method-1 Interiors you are purchasing the finest experience designing and Booth: #102 Glenwood, MD 21738 custom bookmarks on the fabricating exhibits and fixtures Contact: Terri Parker market at a competitive price. Phone: 443-472-2670 for all types of museums, visitor 3401 Mary Taylor Rd. Email: dalejones@ centers, and corporations. Our LYRASIS / ArchivesSpace makinghistoryconnections.com services include interpretive Birmingham, AL 35235 Phone: 205-439-8213 Booth: #312 Web: www. planning, design, project Email: [email protected] Contact: Tom Clareson for makinghistoryconnections.com management, fabrication and Web: www.method-1.com LYRASIS — tom.clareson@ Making History Connections installation. Our fabrication, lyrasis.org creates engaging visitor capabilities include graphics, Commercial interior firm with display cases, interactives, a simple, innovative process of Contact: Brad Westbrook experiences by designing multimedia, scenic, store creating impressive museum for ArchivesSpace — brad. live interpretation, tours, fixtures, and more. Look to environments. We handle [email protected] living history, and museum theatre; training staff; and Malone Design/Fabrication to everything: consultation, 1438 West Peachtree St .NW conducting evaluations of visitor transcend your expectations design, construction, and Atlanta, GA 30309 experiences. and surpass our competitors in installation to make your story Phone: 800-999-8558 quality, value, and service. an unforgettable experience. Web: www.lyrasis.org Malone Design LYRASIS, the organizational Booth: #121 Markel ArtWorks National Endowment for home for ArchivesSpace, Contact: Brad Parker Booth: #303 the Humanities collaborates with member Contact: Jamie Gregory Booth: #112 libraries and cultural heritage 5403 Dividend Dr. 4600 Cox Rd. Contact: Laura Word organizations to create, access, Decatur, GA 30035 and manage information, Phone: 770-987-2538 Glen Allen, VA 23060 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., NW especially digital content, while Email: [email protected] Phone: 804-527-7662 Washington, DC 20506 increasing buying power. Please Web: www.maloneinc.com Email: jgregory@markelcorp. Phone: 202-606-8570 visit www.lyrasis.org. From inspiration to installation, com Email: [email protected] Malone Design/Fabrication Web: www.markelartworks.com Web: www.neh.gov

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NEH program officers will be NEH on the Road/Mid- and other cultural organizations, Northern States available to discuss grants America Arts Alliance as well as private collections. Conservation Center for exhibitions and related Booth: #110 NEDCC provides book and Booth: #220 programming, preservation of paper conservation treatment, Contact: Megan Crook Contact: Brad Bredehoft and access to collections, and digital imaging, assessments, long-term support for work in 2018 Baltimore Ave. educational programs, and P.O. Box 8081 the humanities. Bring your Kansas City, MO 64108 disaster assistance, and is a St. Paul, MN 55108 project ideas and we can talk Phone: 816-421-1388 trusted resource for preservation Phone: 612-790-1645 about how to transform them Email: [email protected] information in the U.S. and Email: [email protected] into successful proposals. Web: www.NEHontheRoad.org beyond. Web: www.collectioncare.org Traveling exhibitions Museum Studies online, and National Trust Insurance and programming grant Northern Micrographics resource publications, tools, Services opportunities for organizations Booth: #114 and supplies for collection Booth: #205 nationwide. Contact: Colleen Lubinsky caretakers. Contact: Brian Phoebus 2004 Kramer St. 33 South Gay St. Northeast Document La Crosse, WI 54603 OnCell Baltimore, MD 21202 Conservation Center Phone: 800-236-0850 x 130 Booth: #207 Phone: 410-598-0067 Booth: #201 Email: colleen.lubinsky@nmt. Contact: Thomas Dunne Email: [email protected] Contact: Julie Martin com 1160D Pittsford-Victor Rd. Web: www.nationaltrust- 100 Brickstone Sq. Web: www.normicro.com Pittsford, NY 14534 insurance.org Andover, MA 01810 Northern Micrographics Phone: 585-419-9844 NTIS, working with our partner Phone: 978-470-1010 has been a leader in the Email: [email protected] Maury, Donnelly & Parr, Email: [email protected] reformatting industry for Web: www.oncell.com provides insurance solutions to Web: www.nedcc.org more than 60 years. From OnCell provides a full range of thousands of historic properties Founded in 1973, the microfilming and digitizing, to mobile tour solutions including: throughout the United States. Northeast Document solutions for putting your digital smartphone tours, mobile Conservation Center is the first collections on line, to printing web tours, QR code tours, cell conservation center in the U.S. and binding, we offer a full phone tours, mobile surveys, to specialize in the preservation range of services to preserve GeoAlerts, scavenger hunts/ of paper-based materials for and create access to your rare games, custom apps, and app museums, libraries, archives, and special materials. channels—all integrated onto a

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single platform. We are mobile PastPerfect Software interactives, exhibition Selago Design communication experts who are Booth: #111 design, and fabrication. Booth: #311 passionate about the arts and Contact: Brian L. Gomez We’ve been creating Contact: Paul Landry education. We’ve worked on memorable museum 300 N. Pottstown Pike, Ste. 99 Fifth Ave., Ste. 214 over 1,200 projects both in the experiences for more than 20 200 U.S. and internationally since years. Let us help you turn your Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5P5 OnCell’s inception in 2006. Exton, PA 19341 vision into reality. Canada Phone: 800-562-6080 Phone: 312-239-0597 OurStateHistory.com Email: brian@museumsoftware. Riggs Ward Design Email: plandry@selagodesign. Booth: #104 com Booth: #118 com Web: www.museumsoftware. Contact: Billy Field Contact: Sara Martin Web: www.selagodesign.com com Phone: 205-792-2802 2315 West Main St. We offer collections PastPerfect Software is management software, as well Email: OurStateHistory@gmail. Richmond, VA 23220 dedicated to creating affordable, as solutions for putting those com Phone: 804-254-1740 comprehensive and easy-to-use collections online. OurStateHistory.com trains and products for all museums. Our Email: [email protected] supports community members, company is proud to serve over Web: www.riggsward.com students, museums, and Southern Custom Exhibits 8,500 organizations. AASLH Riggs Ward is an award-winning Booth: #212 schools to produce documentary institutional members receive development and design Contact: Greg Morrow movies about state and local special pricing. Stop by our firm employing a team of history—and to distribute those booth for more information. talented associates to provide 1416 Commerce Blvd. movies to the world through a unique range of services for Anniston, AL 36207 our website that will launch Quatrefoil Associates established, new, and emerging Phone: 256-835-9377 at the AASLH conference. Booth: #202 museums, visitor centers, and Email: [email protected] OurStateHistory.com archives similar cultural institutions. Web: www.sceexhibits.com your local history, while Contact: Michael Fetters Exhibit Fabrication and connecting your community 29 C Street Installation. members in a unique and Laurel, MD 20707 powerful way. Visit our booth, Phone: 301-470-4748 experience our presentation, Email: [email protected] and leave this conference with Web: www.quatrefoil.com the knowledge to make your first Museum planning, multimedia, movie.

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The Donning Company The History Press museum consulting. Our team— Vista Group International, Publishers Booth: #300 including exhibit designers, Inc. Booth: #211 Contact: Katie Parry archaeologists, historians, and Booth: #119 planners—brings your story to Contact: Nathan Stufflebean 645 Meeting St., Ste. 200 Contact: Martha Yaney life. Our accurate and engaging 305 N. Kansas Ave. Charleston, SC 29403 content works hand in hand 25 Van Zant St. Marceline, MO 64658 Phone: 843-577-5971 with our eye-catching design. Norwalk, CT 06855 Phone: 800-369-2646 x 3377 Email: katie.parry@historypress. Phone: 203-852-5557 Email: nathan.stufflebean@ net University of Oklahoma— Email: martha.yaney@ donning.com Web: www.historypress.net College of Liberal Studies vistagroupinternational.com Web: www.donning.com Local and regional history Booth: #213 Web: www.vistagroup books. international.com The Donning Company will help Contact: Missy Heinze your organization tell its story Vista Group International brings 1610 Asp Ave., Ste. 108 and preserve your heritage for The History Workshop exhibits to life with high-quality Oklahoma City, OK 73072 years to come. Learn how we Booth: #402 audio handsets and outdoor Phone: 405-325-1061 can help you create your own Contact: Callie McLean listening stations. Designed Email: [email protected] unique, colorful publication, 3850 Holcomb Bridge Rd. to enhance exhibits and make from a souvenir book for a Web: www.cis.ou.edu them more accessible for Building 100, Ste. 105 museum, to a commemorative University of Oklahoma-College visitors with hearing and vision volume for a special anniversary. Norcross, GA 30092 of Liberal Studies offers the needs. Serving museums, We have many styles to choose Phone: 678-638-4156 Master of Arts in Museum libraries, historic sites, and from! Contact us for a sample Email: callie@ Studies 100% online! Earn corporations: September 11 book and a free, complimentary thehistoryworkshop.com your degree from a large public Memorial and Museum; White consultation. Web: www.thehistoryworkshop. research institution. It’s your House Visitor Center; Gettysburg com degree. Go get it. National Military Site; Intel; At the History Workshop, we Warner Brothers; Colonial believe every organization has Williamsburg. Brandnames: a story to tell. We specialize SoundStik®, SoundPost. in exhibit design, interpretive planning, educational programs, interactive learning, and

19 Tours Alabama Museums Association

Magnolia Grove

Corporate History Tour 1–5 pm COST: $45 Join the Corporate History and Archives Affinity Group for a tour of the Alabama Power Company Corporate Archives. The archives collects material documenting the history of Alabama Power, its predecessors, and holding companies. The archives also documents the company’s role in Alabama’s economic development and the development of electric power generation in the southeast. BCRI Birmingham Civil Rights Institute

These events are not included in the annual meeting registration fee and require Thursday, September preregistration. See the registration desk for details. Some events may be sold out. 19 Civil Rights Walking Tour 7–8:30 am Highlights from 700 Years of COST: $25 Wednesday, Alabama History Experience the culture and history of September 18 8:30 am–5:30 pm Birmingham’s Historic Civil Rights and Cost: $75 Fourth Avenue Business Districts. Montgomery: Civil War and Civil Rights Greensboro and Hale County tell the Sites and Sounds of Historic rich story of Alabama history from 8 am–5 pm Birmingham the Mississippian culture to the Civil Cost: $75 Rights era. Start with the beginning at 1–5 pm Begin your day at the Alabama State Moundville Archaeological Park. Enjoy Cost: $45 Capitol, the first Confederate Capitol lunch at a new nonprofit experiment, Enjoy a walk along Birmingham’s and also site of the speech by Dr. PieLab, whose mission of Pie + historic 3rd and 4th Avenue Theatre Martin Luther King Jr. after the 1965 Conversation = Social Change matches District. Hear the mighty Wurlitzer organ Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights our conference theme. Tour Magnolia in Alabama’s most ornate setting, the March. Venture to King’s first pastorate, Grove, an 1840s Greek Revival home. Alabama Theatre, and visit a historic Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. End the day at the Safe House Black renovation in progress at the Lyric Take a behind-the-scenes tour of History Museum, which once concealed Theatre. Groove to hometown sounds exhibition construction at the Alabama Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame. See Department of Archives and History. dinosaur bones and experiment at the Have lunch at Old Alabama Town, a McWane Science Center. Finally, end restored nineteenth-century village, and your day honoring local sports heroes end the day at the Rosa Parks Museum including Jesse Owens, Hank Aaron, at Troy University. and Willie Mays at the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.

20 Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site Saturday, September 21

Birmingham CVB Images Walking Tour: Birmingham’s City Center Over the Decades 1:30–4:30 pm Cost: $25 Department Alabama Tourism Over the city’s 140-year existence, Birmingham’s downtown has responded to the city’s ever-changing needs. Downtown evolved from residential neighborhoods with a small commercial and warehouse district to a vibrant downtown and black business district. Birmingham today houses a financial district, civic buildings, upscale entertainment and dining venues, and Civil Rights Trail residential homes, alongside vestiges of the city’s earliest days. This tour Rosa Parks Museum explores how Birmingham’s downtown evolved into what it is today. Tuskegee’s Extraordinary History Friday, September 20 8 am–5 pm Cost: $75

Birmingham’s Captains of Relive the heroic exploits of ordinary Alabama Museums Association Industry Driving Tour men as you walk the grounds of Moton 8:30 am–12:30 pm Field at Tuskegee Airmen National Cost: $45 Historic Site. On the Tuskegee University campus, tour the George Although local legend holds that Washington Carver Museum and The Birmingham’s captains of industry Oaks, home of Booker T. Washington. built their homes atop Red Mountain End the day with a tour of the Tuskegee to survey their empires, it was more Human and Civil Rights Multicultural likely to escape from the stifling Jones Center with founder Fred Gray, an Valley heat that led residents up the attorney for Rosa Parks, the Selma to mountain in search of cool breezes. Montgomery marchers, and the men of Visionary real estate developer Robert the notorious Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Jemison Jr. developed two Red Mountain neighborhoods, Redmont and Altamont, and prominent businessmen and industrialists began building homes on his property as early as 1915. This driving tour explores the grand exterior architecture of Red Mountain homes, and the social history of the area. Alabama Museums Association

Rosenbaum House

in partnership with the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience 21 22 Evening Events

16th Street Baptist Church

A Walk through Wednesday, Thursday, Birmingham’s Civil Friday,

Birmingham CVB Images September 18 September 19 Rights History September 20 6:45–9 pm The Magic City’s Food, Carolyn McKinstry Cost: $45 Leadership in History Music, and Industry at the 16th Street Awards Banquet Take a journey through 6:30–9:30 pm Baptist Church 6:30–9:30 pm the American Civil Rights Cost: $45 5:45–6:45 pm Movement of the 1960s at Cost: $60 Start the evening at the Cost: Free the Birmingham Civil Rights Join AASLH in honoring Sloss Furnaces National Begin an inspiring evening Institute. The Institute is the best in state and Historic Landmark with with a free presentation more than just a museum; local history at the 2013 delicious BBQ inside by Carolyn McKinstry at it is a place of research, Leadership in History the preserved industrial the 16th Street Baptist a teaching facility, and a Awards. Edward Bridges, setting that produced Church on the week of the learning center for people of Director Emeritus of the the iron that gave rise to 50th anniversary of the all ages and backgrounds. Alabama Department of the city of Birmingham. bombing that killed four Taste the best of Alabama Archives and History, will Then, travel to Vulcan Park little girls at the church. cuisine and enjoy a live jazz provide the banquet address. and be welcomed by the Carolyn was present on band. Following dinner, take The evening will also include world’s largest cast iron September 15, 1963 at a stroll through the historic dinner, a lively awards statue, Vulcan, symbol of the 16th Street Baptist Kelly Ingram Park located presentation, and a special Birmingham cast from local Church in Birmingham when across the street. presentation by the National iron in 1904. Overlook white racists bombed it. History Day performance the city, enjoy southern Experience extraordinary winner. hospitality, and visit the history during this museum. meaningful event.

These events are not included in the annual meeting registration fee and require preregistration. See the registration desk for details. Some events may be sold out. 23 September 18 Wednesday Wednesday Birmingham CVB Images Birmingham Museum of Art Sculpture Garden

These events are not included in the annual meeting registration fee and require preregistration. See the registration desk for details. Some events may be sold out.

CEO FORUM 8:30 am–3:30 pm

A National Branding Strategy for History Cost: $150/$225 for two from same organization for institutions with budgets of $1 million+ Alabama Tourism Department Alabama Tourism XX Room: Birmingham Ballroom 3 (Sheraton) We must begin to articulate a purpose for history organizations that both un- derscores the value of understanding the past and aligns with a nationally rec- ognized need. For too long, we have let history play a negligible role in educa- tion, civil discourse, and decisions that affect the nation and our communities. What is the greater good that public history serves? What is the relevance of history? In the long run, what difference do history organizations make? In the CEO Forum, we will consider what the public says, what filmmakers say, what our donors say, and what historians say about the relevance of history. Through dialogue, we will capture the most compelling statements and begin to discuss a national communications strategy for imprinting the relevance of history in the minds and hearts of people and decision-makers. Chair: Kent Whitworth, Executive Director, Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY Arlington Antebellum Home & Garden

24 Half-Day workshops Full-Day workshops Half-Day workshops 8:30 am–12 pm 8:30 am–5 pm 1:30–5:30 pm

Financial Management Embracing Divergent Memories Field Services Alliance Meeting Bootcamp through Dialogue Design and Cost: Free Cost: $45 Facilitation XX Room: East L XX Room: East J Cost: $75 Members and interested colleagues Every museum leader must master XX Room: East F of FSA will gather to receive an financial analysis and management. This session will provide training update on a variety of issues facing This workshop will help you understand and resources for facilitating local grassroots history organizations. and discuss financial information to dialogue across difference. Drawing Visit www.aaslh.org/FSA for more help your board make better decisions. on successful models from the information. The goal is to help you answer three International Coalition of Sites of Chair: Jeff Harris, Director, Local History key questions. What stories are hidden Conscience, workshop attendees Services, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN in your numbers? What do they mean? will experience specific techniques How can you tell them more effectively? designed to engage visitors and Chair: Laura Roberts, Principal, Roberts also addresses practical issues of Half-Day workshops Consulting, Cambridge, MA; Stacy Klingler, implementing dialogue programs, from Assistant Director, Local History Services, 1:30–5 pm Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN marketing to staff buy-in. Chair: Sarah Blannett Pharaon, Program Director, North America, International I Collected Surveys, Now What? We Listened: How to Conduct a Coalition of Sites of Conscience, New York, NY Tools for Analyzing and Using Listening Session Visitor Feedback Cost: $45 Giving Voice to the Long- Cost: $45 XX Room: East L Silenced Millions: Best XX Room: East J Confronted with the question of what Practices for Interpreting Slavery Have you ever said, “I have completed your community really wants from at Historic Sites and Museums surveys. Now what do I do?” Answering your institution? Listening sessions Cost: $75 that question is the heart of this are an effective and meaningful XX Room: East K workshop. Learn to conduct simple tool to connect and engage with the Learn best practices for connecting analyses, communicate results, members of your community. Join us to and extending beyond your site’s and reconcile results with initial for culturally sensitive tips to listen and complex history of slavery; training assumptions. Participants should really use what you’ve heard. to help staff achieve a greater bring laptops with Excel and a basic Chair: Janeen Bryant, Vice President of Education, Levine Museum of the New understanding of the difficult calculator. South, Charlotte, NC; Laura Anderson, knowledge and navigate surrounding Chair: Caren S. Oberg, Principal and Owner, Archivist/International Oral History Project complicated emotions; and tools to Oberg Research, LLC, Irvington, NY; Kristie Administrator, Birmingham Civil Rights inventory current interpretations and Smeltzer, Manager of Visitor Evaluation and Correspondence, Thomas Jefferson Institute, Birmingham, AL; Joanna Arrieta, evaluate new techniques. Independent Museum Professional, Newnan, Foundation, Inc., Monticello, Charlottesville, GA; Kate Whitman, Vice President of Public Chair: Kristin Gallas, Consultant, The VA Programs, Atlanta History Center/Margaret Tracing Center on Histories and Legacies Mitchell House, Atlanta, GA of Slavery, Watertown, MA; Tricia Brooks, Senior Program Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC; Conny 6:30–9:30 pm Graft, Principal, Conny C. Graft Research and Evaluation, Williamsburg, VA; Julie Rose, Director, West Baton Rouge Museum, Port Evening Event: The Magic City’s Allen, LA Food, Music, and Industry Cost: $45

Lab 2:15–5:15 pm

The Force of Sports: Connecting Communities through Sports History Cost: $25; Preregistration Required XX Alabama Sports Hall of Fame This session, hosted by the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame, will discuss sports and community connectivity. Presenters will address this topic in conversation with the experience of marginalized groups and periods of strife and war. The panel will also address the opportunities and issues of communicating sports history in a smaller state sports museum. The lab will also include a tour of the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. Chair: Kathy Shinnick, Graduate Student, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA; Rebecca Edwards, Associate Professor, Rochester University, Rochester, NY; Pamela Grundy, History Consultant, Charlotte, NC; Scott Myers, Executive Director, Alabama Sports Hall of Fame, Birmingham, AL; Ryan Swanson, Assistant Professor of History, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

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Birmingham Civil Rights Institute

7:15–9:45 am 8:30–9:45 am History Matters! A Movement to Create a National Brand for Director’s Breakfast and Session Diversity: Positive Programs in History Cost: $30 Corporate Archives, Museums, XX Room: East O XX Room: Birmingham Ballroom 9 and Visitors Centers History has a PR problem. The study (Sheraton) XX Room: East K and practice of history is devalued Directors and CEOs of organizations Businesses are constantly trying to grow in America, from our schools to the of all sizes are invited to lunch for their customer base to include various halls of government. It is time for us networking and discussion. Burt demographics from around the world. to articulate and assert the relevance Logan, President and CEO of the Ohio Just as the key to business is growth, of history, not only individually but Historical Society, invites you to think so it is for museums. This session will collectively, in a national campaign. about your organization: the place it include three case studies highlighting Help craft strategic messages and a holds in your community; its value how corporate museums and archives plan of action to create a brand for and distinctiveness; its connections embrace diversity communications history. to individuals and constituents; and along with their parent corporations, Chair: Tim Grove, Chief, Museum Learning, its ability to affect and to be affected and engage diverse audiences through National Air and Space Museum, Washington, by change. Examine your own place DC; John Durel, Organizational Consultant, programming and other avenues. 2 within the organization, how you impart Qm /Durel Consulting Partners, Baltimore, Chair: Tiffany Meng, Director, Delta Air MD; Kim Fortney, Deputy Director, National value, bring about change, and connect Transport Heritage Museum, Atlanta, History Day, College Park, MD; Conny Graft, internally and externally. GA; Jamal Booker, Manager, Heritage Principal, Conny C. Graft Research and Communications, Coca-Cola, Atlanta, GA; Chair: Lynne Ireland, Deputy Director, Evaluation, Williamsburg, VA; Kent Whitworth, Scarlet Pressley-Brown, Vice President- Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, Director, Kentucky Historical Society, Marketing, National Center for Civil and NE, and Chair, AASLH Council Frankfort, KY Human Rights, Atlanta, GA

26 Birmingham Board of Education, Chair: Julie McPike, Program Coordinator, 8:30–9:45 am continued Birmingham, AL; Staci Glover, Adjunct Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area, Instructor, University of Alabama at Lawrence, KS; Carol Schulze Bohl, Retired Managing Change: The Keys to Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; Pamela Executive Director, Cass County Historical Successful Transitions within Sterne King, Assistant Professor and Director, Society, Harrisonville, MO; William E. Fischer, Undergraduate Programs, University of Jr., Fort Scott National Historic Site, Fort Historic Organizations Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; Scott, KS; Elizabeth Hobson, Daily Programs XX Room: East L Karen Utz, Curator, Sloss Furnaces National Coordinator and Collections Manager, Mahaffie Whether transitioning jobs, projects, Historic Landmark, Birmingham, AL Stagecoach Stop Historic Site, Olathe, KS leadership, or starting from scratch to create a whole new entity, managing Small Museums, Big Impact Working with Community to change can provide seemingly XX Room: East C Address Things That Matter insurmountable challenges. Learn how In this session, representatives from Locally to employ key strategic and practical three small museums will discuss the XX Room: East F steps to help you handle any type of challenges faced by their institutions, Is your history organization interested transition or change. and the changes they made to in taking on an exhibit or program that Chair: Jeff Kollath, Public Humanities confront those challenges completely addresses a community issue? How do Program Manager, University of Wisconsin, transforming the way their institutions you involve the community? What angle Madison, WI; Bethany Buckingham, Curator, work. Dorothy G. Page Museum, Wasilla, AK; Bill do you take? What is the impact? Learn Brewster, Curator of Collections, First Division Chair: Nate Meyers, Curator of Collections, how three members of the International Museum, Wheaton, IL; Emily Dunnack, Head Chandler Museum, Chandler, AZ; Alexandra Coalition of Sites of Conscience Nicholis Coon, Executive Director, Massillon of Education Programs, Connecticut Historical launched dynamic, collaborative Society, Hartford, CT; J.J. Lamb, Director, Vail Museum, Massillon, OH; Jason Crabill, Preservation Society, Vail, AZ Manager of Curatorial Service, Collections programs that address critical local Division, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, issues. OH; Julie Rose, Ph.D., Director, West Baton Chair: Lisa Falk, Director of Education, NEH 2013: Making Extraordinary Rouge Museum, Port Allen, LA Arizona State Museum, Tucson, AZ; Suzanne Change with NEH Support Seriff, Ph.D., Director, Gallery of Conscience, XX Room: East B Turning Points: An Educators and Museum of International Folk Art, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM; Sally Roesch Come learn about support available Interpreters Meeting Kick-Off Wagner, Ph.D., Director, Matilda Joslyn Gage from the NEH for museums and XX Room: East N Foundation, Fayetteville, NY historical organizations. Successful Join the Educators and Interpreters grantees will discuss their experiences Committee for a 2013 Annual Meeting applying for and managing grants that kick-off! We will explore the Annual 9:45–10:45 am fund interpretive exhibitions, building Meeting theme through a presentation endowments for longterm support, and by Ahmad Ward, Head of Education at Break in the Exhibit Hall preserving collections in sustainable the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, ways. NEH program officers from three and then discuss how to incorporate First-Time Attendee Reception funding areas will also be on hand to “difficult” history into programs. We’ll offer tips and answer questions. also share information on the meeting’s Cost: Free Chair: Andrea Anderson, Senior Program education sessions. Preregistration Required Officer, National Endowment for the XX Room: East G–H Chair: Tobi Voigt, Chief Curatorial Officer, Humanities, Washington, DC; Trisha Brooks, Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI; Callie First-time conference attendees are Senior Program Officer, National Endowment Hawkins, Curator of Education, President invited to attend a special reception for the Humanities, Washington, DC; Norman Lincoln’s Cottage, Washington, DC; Alexandra O. Burns, II, Executive Director, Maymont in their honor to meet new colleagues Rasic, Public Programs Manager, Homestead Foundation, Richmond, VA; Catherine and learn tips for getting the most out Museum, City of Industry, CA Fields, Director, Litchfield Historical of their annual meeting experience. Society, Litchfield, CT;Laura Word, Senior Sponsored by the AASLH Mentor Program Officer, National Endowment for the What Happened to All the Committee Humanities, Washington, DC People? Researching and Interpreting the Ordinary People Ordinary People with and Extraordinary Change of the Extraordinary Stories of Border War Birmingham XX Room: East J XX Room: East A Join Freedom’s Frontier National This session will focus on Birmingham’s Heritage Area partners as they share ethnic, industrial, and racial history by

how they engage the public in a Department Alabama Tourism telling of the people who comprised discussion about contentious Civil War it. This session demonstrates how history in Missouri and Kansas. New oral histories provide an innovative interpretation of this period is rooted in approach to studying complex history, social history research. Researchers will especially those where the stories of share their methods, including a crowd- the working class and unheralded are sourcing model for census research. crucial to the telling. Chair: Theresa Thomas, Director, Teaching American History for Birmingham, Birmingham Museum of Art Totem Pole 27 Thursday, September 19

10:45 am–12 pm Court and Legal History 1:30–2:45 pm Luncheon Keynote Address: Cost: $35 Concurrent Sessions Natasha Trethewey XX Room: Birmingham Ballroom 11 Join this affinity group comprised Are We Safe? What Protection XX Room: East Ballroom B of individuals working in state legal Do We Have Against Armed history societies, circuit court libraries, Intruders? and the U.S. Supreme Court Historical XX Room: East L Society for lunch. Anne S. Emanuel, Joel Benjamin After recent violent incidents, directors Professor of Law (Retired), Georgia and managers of historic organizations State University, College of Law, will are increasingly concerned about speak on “Activists and Obstructionists: protecting staff, visitors, and others Southern Federal Courts and the Civil who visit our institutions daily. This Rights Revolution.” She is the author session will outline the step-by-step of Elbert Parr Tuttle: Chief Jurist of the methodology necessary to prevent Civil Rights Revolution (2011). occurrences of violence, enhance the Chair: Elizabeth Osborn, Ph.D., Court Historian, Indiana Supreme Court, survival of staff, visitors, and others, Indianapolis, IN and bring violent or potentially violent incidents to a close as quickly and Educators and Interpreters safely as possible. Luncheon Chair: Rob Layne, Executive Director, International Foundation for Cultural Property Cost: $35 Protection, Denver, CO; Stevan P. Layne, XX Room: Birmingham Ballroom 9 CPP, CIPM, CIPI, President, International Do you enjoy museum education Foundation for Cultural Property Protection, Nokomis, FL and interpretation? Want to join fun and lively discussions about current issues? Do you like to eat food? If you Entering the Mainstream, Interpreting GLBT History: 12–1:15 pm answered “Yes!” join the Educators and Interpreters Committee for lunch. Bring Challenges and Opportunities Luncheons your business cards, your dilemmas, XX Room: East K and your best practices. It’s time to As historians delve into alternative All lunches located in Sheraton dine and dish! histories, museums have the Chair: Tobi Voigt, Chief Curatorial Officer, opportunity to explore broader topics Corporate History/Visitors’ Voices Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI with their visitors—including previously Luncheon taboo subjects. The discussion of GLBT Cost: $35 Small Museums Luncheon history has now begun to appear in XX Room: Birmingham Ballroom 12 Cost: $35 mainstream venues. This presentation Join collegues for lunch and lively XX Room: Birmingham Ballroom 1 considers some of the commonly- discussion as we hear from guest Come together with your fellow small cited challenges to incorporating speaker Peggy Dalman, Market museums colleagues for a lively and queer history, along with examples of Research Manager at the Biltmore engaging luncheon. Network with your museums that have addressed these Company. She will discuss guest peers from around the nation and then issues. satisfaction research at the beautiful listen in as our speaker, Sally Roesch Co-Chairs: Kenneth C. Turino, Manager of Biltmore Estate including follow-up that Wagner of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Community Engagement and Exhibitions, strengthens the company’s relationship Historic New England, Boston, MA; and Foundation, shares with us the story Susan Ferentinos, Public History Researcher, with its guests, understanding of Matilda Joslyn Gage, and how the Writer, and Consultant, Bloomington, IN; that surveys need to be a strong Foundation applies her concepts to Jessica Herczeg-Konecny, Licensing and representation of a company’s brand, create a truly participatory museum Reproductions Manager, Chicago History and why it’s important to understand experience. In the nineteenth century, Museum, Chicago, IL; Stacia Kuseyeski, CEO how guests feel when a company goes of Creative Learning Factory, Ohio Historical Gage asked women to write postcards Society, Columbus, OH “off brand.” in support of suffrage. Attendees will Co-Chairs: Tiffany Meng, Director, Delta Air pen a postcard or two of their own, Transport Heritage Museum, Atlanta, GA, and take away innovative ideas, proven and Kristie Smeltzer, Manager of Evaluation and Correspondence, Thomas Jefferson concepts, and inspiration about why Foundation, Inc., Charlottesville, VA small museums want to preserve and display objects. Chair: Maggie Marconi, Museum Curator, Sandusky Library/Follett House, Sandusky, OH

28 and Content Director, Design Minds, Fairfax, Museum Foundation, Kennesaw, GA; Ann 1:30–2:45 pm continued VA; Bruce A. Ragsdale, Director, Federal Caspari, Early Childhood Education Specialist, Judicial History Office, Federal Judicial National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Latino New South: A New Center, Washington, DC Institution, Washington, DC Lens into Institutional and Community Engagement Vintage or Artifact? Collecting 2:45–3:45 pm XX Room: East F the 20th and 21st Centuries The Latino population has been XX Room: East B growing dramatically since the 1980s, At what point do we consider an object Break in the Exhibit Hall and many of these newcomers are old enough to be an artifact? Must an settling in the South. Hear how three item be rare to be worthy of collecting? very different museums confront This panel discussion will explore these 4–5:15 pm the limitations of state and cultural questions and make the case for why boundaries as they explore what it history museums should be collecting Concurrent Sessions means to work together documenting contemporary, even mass-produced dramatic regional change as it happens. items today. Curating the Confederacy Chair: Janeen Bryant, Vice President of Chair: Veronica Rodriquez, Museum Curator, XX Room: East B Education, Levine Museum of the New South, Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Any museum function including the Charlotte, NC; Priscilla Hancock Cooper, Historical Park, Richmond, CA; Suzanne Confederacy can quickly become Vice President of Institutional Programs, Fischer, Associate Curator, Contemporary Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, History and Trends, Oakland Museum of controversial. This session will help AL; Melina Monita-Pacheco, Latino New South California, Oakland, CA curators and educators think about Project Coordinator, Levine Museum of the how to best interpret, exhibit, and New South, Charlotte, NC; Kate Whitman, Vice program the story of the Confederacy President of Public Programs, Atlanta History Where’s the Humanity Center/Margaret Mitchell House, Atlanta, GA in Science, Technology, and slavery. Three veteran curators will Engineering, and Math (STEM)? present their best practices in how to discuss the Confederate experience at The Many Faces of Mentoring: XX Room: East N your institution. Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Society increasingly measures Chair: Gordon Blaker, Director/Curator, U.S. XX Room: East J educational achievement through Army Artillery Museum, Fort Sill, OK; Myers Whether an emerging or seasoned quantifiable factors. STEM initiatives Brown, Archivist, Tennessee State Library and professional, or somewhere in between, have the attention of policy makers. Archives, Nashville, TN; W. Allen Roberson, mentoring is for you. Come and Where do history museums fit in this Director, South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum, Columbia, SC discover how mentoring transcends the national interest? This session explores classroom and formal program, why STEM initiatives, how to include mentors don’t have to have gray hair humanities, and how museums can The Importance of Addressing (can’t recent grads also mentor their be the perfect arena for this new Difficult Topics in History tech-challenged bosses?), and how interdisciplinary approach. XX Room: East L changing demographics and technology Chair: Betsy Bowers, Deputy Director The panel will discuss why meaningful may change the face of mentoring in of Museum Education and Outreach, dialogue is key to addressing difficult Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center, topics in history, such as race, the future. Washington, DC; Richard Banz, D.Ed., Chair: Karen Graham Wade, Director, Executive Director, Southern Museum of Civil dislocation, disenfranchisement, and Homestead Museum, City of Industry, CA; War and Locomotive History and Kennesaw marginalization. Presenters will also Melissa Bingmann, Assistant Professor, Director of Public History, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV; Lisa Eriksen, Principal, Lisa Eriksen Consulting, Oakland, CAA

Using Legal Documents in Civil Jeffrey G reenberg Rights History Exhibits XX Room: East C Many of the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s took place in courtrooms. The records of those legal proceedings will strengthen any exhibit on the history of the era. Three experts in legal records and related exhibits will discuss how to make these documents a compelling part of your programming. Chair: Kathleen Shurtleff, Assistant Director, Supreme Court Historical Society, Washington, DC; Michael Hussey, Ph.D., Education and Exhibition Specialist, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC; Mike Lesperance, Principal Five Points South, founded in 1893, is Birmingham’s “Food Hub.”

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National Underground Railroad Freedom The Toolkit Talks: Sharing 4–5:15 pm continued Center, Cincinnati, OH; Tonya Matthews, Vice President of Museums, Cincinnati Museum Resources for Small Museums discuss challenges and strategies Center, Cincinnati, OH XX Room: East N involved with acknowledging and Administration, finance, exhibits, talking about such stories of the past to The National Dialogues on programming, collections care—small address problems of today with honesty, Immigration Project museum staff do it all. Five authors accuracy, and empathy. XX Room: East F of The Small Museum Toolkit, a Chair: Regina Faden, Executive Director, The National Dialogues on Immigration series of books planned and written Historic St. Mary’s City, St. Mary’s City, MD; by experienced small museum Nicole Annette Moore, Consultant/Museum Project is a groundbreaking series Educator, City of Virginia Beach Department of public dialogue programs at professionals to provide a quick of Museums and Historic Resources, Vero immigration, civil rights, and ethnic reference for their colleagues, will share Beach, FL identity museums aimed at sparking their insights into varied aspects of a national conversation on critical small museum management. Mergers, Alliances, and immigration questions. Learn how Chair: Janice Klein, Consultant, EightSixSix Partnerships: What’s Right, Consulting, Tempe, AZ; Stacy Klingler, the project was developed and can Assistant Director, Local History Services, What’s Wrong, What’s Deadly? be implemented at your site, bringing Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN; XX Room: East O together museum staff, humanities Allyn Lord, Director, Shiloh Museum of Ozark No matter what you call them, this scholars, and leading dialogue History, Springdale, AR; Rebecca Martin, Volunteer and Tour Coordinator, National roundtable will explore the potential facilitators. Archives and Records Administration, benefits and pitfalls of museums Chair: Yolanda Chávez Leyva, Director, Museo Washington, DC; Pat Miller, Executive joining together by using real examples Urbano/Department of History, UTEP, El Director, Illinois Heritage Association, Paso, TX; Linda Blanshay, Director, Program Champaign, IL from institutions, both urban and rural, Development, Museum of Tolerance, Los that have recently gone through the Angeles, CA; Sonya Kassis, Educator, Arab process. Is this the right thing for your American National Museum, Dearborn, MI organization? 5:45–6:45 pm Chair: Bill Peterson, Ph.D., Independent Quick and Dirty DIY Mobile Museum Professional, Deadwood, SD; Content Creation and App Carolyn McKinstry at 16th Lisa Anderson, President and CEO, Mesa Street Baptist Church Historical Museum, Mesa, AZ; Dina Bailey, Development Cost: Free; Preregistration Director of Exhibitions and Visitor Services, XX Room: East K Required Learn what resources are available for designing a mobile app that will run on any smart phone or tablet and how to populate it with quality content for your institution on a shoestring budget and no tech skills. Belmont University Chair: Charles Outhier, Independent Museum Consultant, Museums2Go, Philadelphia, Alabama Tourism Department Alabama Tourism PA; John Blades, Executive Director, Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL; Peter Dajevskis, President, Interpretive Solutions, West Chester, PA; Rob Pyles, CEO and Chief Creative Guru, TourSphere, Boston, MA

Recruiting, Orienting, and Engaging Board Members XX Room: East A This session led by museum trustees 6:45–9 pm with decades of board experience will help you build an effective and engaged Evening Event: A Walk Through board. The board/director partnership Birmingham’s Civil Rights is critical and it begins with having the History best board possible. Cost: $45; Preregistration Required Chair: Jim McCreight, President, Museum Trustee Association, Beaverton, OR; Carol Hart, Director, Greensboro Historical Museum, Greensboro, NC; Karen l. Johnston, Trustee, Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL

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American Village

7:15–8:30 am 8:30–9:45 am Focusing on the Future to Preserve the Past: Examining Historic House Museum Concurrent Sessions Trends to Navigate Ongoing Breakfast Change Cost: $30; Preregistration Required Field Services Alliance Presents XX Room: East N XX Room: Birmingham Ballroom 1 Museum Tips The coming decades will bring about (Sheraton) XX Room: East J massive change, creating stress within Join historic house museum In a world of riotous change, museums our institutions and communities. professionals for an engaging struggle to keep up with the eternal Recognizing and responding to future discussion of current issues. Franklin paradox of heavy workloads and limited trends is a crucial skill for all history D. Vagone, Executive Director of the resources. The FSA provides tips on professionals. This interactive session Historic House Trust of New York new ways to approach old problems. highlights foresight techniques used in City, and Deborah E. Ryan, Professor This session will have participants the Leaders of the Future project of the of Architecture and Urban Design using new technology for oral histories, California Association of Museums and at the University of North Carolina controlling environments, and guides participants in examining future at Charlotte, have developed a educational programs. trends. comprehensive new philosophy for Chair: Danielle Stuckle, Education Programs Chair: Lisa Eriksen, Principal, Lisa historic house museums called The and Outreach Coordinator, State Historical Eriksen Consulting, Oakland, CA; Leslie S. Matamoros, Museum Assistant, Museum of Anarchist Guide to Historic House Society of North Dakota, Bismarck, ND; Joe Hoover, Digital Technology Outreach History and Art, Ontario, CA; Karen Graham Museums. This concept calls for the Specialist in Field Services, Minnesota Wade, Director, Homestead Museum, City of holistic reexamination of the current Historical Society, St. Paul, MN; Laura Hortz Industry, CA historic house museum model and the Stanton, Director of Preservation Services, establishment of a paradigm from the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, Philadelphia, PA perspective of human habitation. Chair: Michelle Zupan, Curator, Hickory Hill, Thomson, GA

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Meeting Visitor Expectations Chair: Tim Grove, Chief, Museum Learning, 8:30–9:45 am continued National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian with the Visitors Count! Program Institution, Washington, DC; Lisa Fischer, Forging Business and XX Room: East B Director, Digital History Center, Colonial Academic Alliances in Training Does your museum exceed, meet, or fall Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA; Wendy Jones, short of visitor expectations? More than Head of Museum and Education Programs, Historians for the 21st-Century Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN; Marketplace ever, history organizations realize the David T. Schaller, Principal, Eduweb, St. need to better understand the people XX Room: East L Paul, MN; Tobi Voigt, Director of Education who arrive at their front door. Hear and Interpretation, Detroit Historical Society, Facing a challenging employment how two sites are using Visitors Count! Detroit, MI marketplace, academic history to not only anticipate expectations programs, professional organizations, but protect and promote what visitors Using Visitor Input for a and the history business community love about them. Past Visitors Count! Business Model That Works have increasingly acknowledged the participants will also want to attend need for properly trained historians. XX Room: East O to hear about new Spotlight Surveys This roundtable brings together expert The world is changing for historic house available for them. voices from the history employment museums and we need to embrace Chair: Cherie Cook, Senior Program Manager, and education sectors in addressing this “new normal” with a new plan. AASLH, Jefferson City, MO; Keith Gill, This session will feature three different what academic institutions are teaching Director of Museum Operations, Cantigny compared to what skills employers First Division Museum, Wheaton, IL; Kristie organizations talking about the process demand. Sponsored by National Smeltzer, Manager of Visitor Evaluation of gathering visitor input and how they Council on Public History. and Correspondence, Thomas Jefferson turned this input into successful new Foundation, Monticello, Charlottesville, VA; business plans. Chair: Patrick K. Moore, Public History Deborah Wilcox, Director of Evaluation, Center Chair: Cindy Olsen, Director of Visitor Program Director, University of West Florida, for Nonprofit Management, Nashville, TN Pensacola, FL; Kristen Gwinn-Becker, CEO Experience, Automotive Hall of Fame, and Founder, HistoryIT, LLC, Portland, ME; Dearborn, MI; John Crippen, Director of Alexandra M. Lord, Founder/Editor, The The Memphis Initiative: A Historic Sites and Museums, Minnesota Ultimate History Project, Washington, DC, Case Study in Community Historical Society, St. Paul, MN; Gwendolen Michelle McClellen, Assistant Professor, Raley, Museum and Heritage Tourism Director, Department of History and Residential College, Partnerships Indiana Landmarks, Indianapolis, IN; Kenneth University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Brian XX Room: East F C. Turino, Manager of Community Engagement W. Martin, President, History Associates Learn how the National Civil Rights and Exhibitions, Historic New England, Incorporated, Rockville, MD; Jon E. Taylor, Boston, MA Associate Professor of History, University of Museum is developing a robust multi- Central Missouri, Lee’s Summit, MO tiered strategic communications plan, with significant concentration on social Where are the Women at Historic Sites? Grassroots Efforts to Save media capacity, as well as integrating the education issues in NCRM exhibits, XX Room: East A Buildings Create Community It’s hard to envision a historic site that Treasures enabling the institution to be a platform for a national dialogue on equity in does not have some link to women’s XX Room: East K education. history. This session will provide Grassroots efforts to rally around a Chair: Beverly T. Sakauye, Director of examples of how to discover and historic structure can build momentum Development, National Civil Rights Museum, document that history through the and result in continued economic and Memphis, TN; Barbara Andrews, Manager, work of the Evanston Women’s History cultural growth for their communities. Collections and Curatorial Services, National Project, National Historic Landmarks Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN; Danielle Learn how this has worked from three Gonzales, Senior Program Officer, Bill and Program, and National Collaborative for diverse case studies, the Autauga Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA Women’s History Sites. County Heritage Association, the Chair: Barbara J. Howe, Member, Board of Dennison Railroad Depot Museum, and Playing Games with History Directors, National Collaborative for Women’s the Lowell National Historical Park. History Sites, Morgantown, WV; Susan XX Room: East C Ferentinos, Consultant, National Historic Chair: Maggie Marconi, Museum Landmarks Women’s History Initiative, Administrator, Sandusky Library/Follett Many museums today are turning to Bloomington, IN; Patricia Mooney-Melvin, House Museum, Sandusky, OH; David interactive gaming as a way to attract Ph.D., Associate Dean, The Graduate School, Blackburn, Chief of Cultural Resources, Lowell new audiences. When designed well, Loyola University, Chicago, IL; Lori Osborne, National Historical Park, Lowell, MA; Ann C. games engage the imagination, foster Archivist, Evanston History Center, Evanston, IL Boutwell, Volunteer, Autauga County Heritage Association, Prattville, AL; Wendy Zucal, motivation, and facilitate learning. Executive Director, Dennison Railroad Depot But how can museums of all sizes Museum, Dennison, OH ensure their games meet mission and 9:45–10:45 am learning goals? In this session, museum educators and game designers will Break in the Exhibit Hall discuss challenges and opportunities that games present, including questions Sponsored by the National Council on of audience, learning outcomes, Public History history-based game play, and format.

32 Birmingham, AL; Faye Carter Bullock, Past 9:45–10:45 am continued 2:15–3:30 pm Board President, Monroe County Heritage Museum; Jeffrey Nichols, President and CEO, National Council on Public Concurrent Sessions Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, Forest, History Poster Session VA; Scott Wands, Program Officer, Heritage Resource Center, Connecticut Humanities, XX Room: Exhibit Hall Creating Meaningful Outcomes Middletown, CT View the work of graduate students for Programs and Exhibits and others as they display and discuss XX Room: East N Historic Turning Points Fueling their project-based work in a format What do you want visitors to know, feel, Contemporary Change that is interactive and collegial. and do as a result of your interpretive XX Room: East F Posters demonstrate the material and program or experience? Join your How can turning points in history visual work of our field. Discover new colleagues in discussing the value of illuminate the present? What can research, talk with your colleagues, and outcome statements and fun things visitors to historic sites take from these provide your thoughts to the presenters you can do to develop meaningful, pivotal moments? What challenges do about their work in this inaugural event measurable, and mission-related history museums face when dealing sponsored by the National Council on outcomes for your programs and with contemporary issues? Panelists Public History. exhibits. will discuss making institutional Chair: Conny Graft, Consultant, Evaluation and commitments to address not only Research, Williamsburg, VA; Shelia Brommel, history, but how it changes and impacts 10:45 am–12 pm Evaluation Coordinator, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN visitors today. Chair: Kate Betz, Education Programs Keynote Speaker Doudou Diène Enlivening Historic Sites with Developer, Bullock Texas State History Museum, Austin, TX; David Blackburn, the Arts Chief of Cultural Resources and Programs, XX Room: East J Lowell Historic Site, Lowell, MA; Sean

Doudou Diène Innovative arts-related programming Kelly, Senior Vice President, Director of Public Programming and PR, Eastern State can enliven historic sites by developing Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA; Rebecca new audiences, fostering new Sanders, Executive Director, Chicago Cultural partnerships, and providing new ways Alliance, Chicago, IL for visitors to interact with buildings, landscapes, and collections. The Integrating African American Glass House, Kykuit, and Brucemore Voices into Historic Plantation will discuss arts-based programming Tours that is rooted in their history and XX Room: East O has expanded their partnerships and This roundtable will explore the interpretation. challenges and processes of integrating Chair: Katherine Malone-France, Director of African American voices into XX Room: East Ballroom B Outreach, Education, and Support, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, historic plantation tours. It features DC; Ann Cathcart, Associate Manager of representatives from a diverse group of Collections and Programs, Chesterwood, institutions in different phases of this 12–1 pm Stockbridge, MA: Judy Clark, Deputy Director, process who will explore a variety of Pocantico Center, Terrytown, NY; David Janssen, Executive Director, Brucemore, Inc., goals, experiences, and best practices AASLH Membership and Cedar Rapids, IA to assist institutions undergoing this Networking Luncheon transformation. Cost: Free Financial and Mission Questions Chair: Charles Chamberlain, President, Historia LLC, New Orleans, LA; XX Room: Exhibit Hall Boards Should Ask and Staff Antoinette Open to all, take time to check out the Jackson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Should Answer Department of Anthropology, University of latest and greatest products available XX Room: East L South Florida, Tampa, FL; Laura Kincer, in the exhibit hall while grabbing a Curator of Collections, Oak Alley Plantation, complimentary lunch. Does your organization’s board Vacherie, LA; Deborah Mack, Ph.D., Associate have the right information to make Director for Community and Constituent good, responsible decisions for the Services, The National African American institution? How does the staff provide Museum of History and Culture, Smithsonian 1–2 pm Institution, Washington, DC; Justin Sarafin, the right level of information without Director of Preservation Initiatives and getting bogged down in the details? Engagement, Preservation Virginia, Richmond, AASLH Meeting of the Listen as a board member, a nonprofit VA Membership CPA, and a director provide their XX Room: East Ballroom B perspectives on what boards really need Religious Places and the Civil to know. Rights Movement Chair: Stacy Klingler, Assistant Director, XX Room: East K 2–2:15 pm Local History Services, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN; Brian Barksdale, The Religious History Affinity Group CPA, Partner, Carr, Riggs, and Ingram, LLC, Committee will discuss the role of Break

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Concurrent Sessions Alabama Tourism Department Alabama Tourism Becoming Alabama: Engaging the Public in a State’s Story through Collaborative Public History XX Room: East C Becoming Alabama, a thematic concept centered on three transformative periods in the state’s history, provided a focal point for collaboration by multiple partners that energized Alabama public Birmingham Botanical Gardens history organizations, enhanced state- wide collaborations, and strengthened their capacity to connect with the historical organizations. In this session, 2:15–3:30 pm continued public in an era of decreased funding. panelists from three universities will discuss the benefits and challenges of Chair: Scotty E. Kirkland, Curator of History, religious places in the Civil Rights History Museum of Mobile, Mobile, AL; Movement. Join us and learn about working with communities and students Debbie Pendelton, Assistant Director for interpreting extraordinary history at to study and interpret local history. Public Services, Alabama Department of religious sites. Chair: Evelyn D. Causey, Historian, Auburn, Archives and History, Montgomery, AL; Susan AL; Maiben Beard, Outreach Associate, Reynolds, Assistant Editor, Alabama Heritage, Chair: Donna M. Sack, Executive Director, Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Tuscaloosa, AL; Claire Wilson, Senior Content Illinois Association of Museums, Springfield, Arts and Humaniites, Auburn University, Editor, Encyclopedia of Alabama, Auburn, AL IL; Tara White, History Instructor, Wallace Auburn, AL; Howard Robinson, Archivist, Community College, Selma, AL National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture, Alabama State IMLS Community Anchors: Taking the Right StEPs University, Montgomery, AL; Tina Naremore Stories from the Field Together: Starting a StEPs Jones, Dean, Division of Educational XX Room: East A Outreach, Executive Director, Center for the The Institute of Museum and Library Group in Your State Study of the Black Belt, University of West Services will discuss its grant funding XX Room: East B Alabama, Livingston, AL opportunities and showcase a few very The StEPs program is serving as a successful grant projects that focus catalyst for shared learning among Volunteers: Ordinary People, on how museums use their community small museums through the formation Extraordinary Change history in innovative and exciting ways of statewide or regional StEPs groups. XX Room: East C to solidify or enhance their roles as Whether you are interested in taking Discover how three organizations have community anchors and centers of the message about StEPs groups back re-worked their volunteer programs, learning. to your state or represent a service creating a mutually beneficial Chair: Steven Shwartzman, Senior Program organization thinking about starting a relationship; expanding the role of Officer, Institute of Museum and Library group, join us to hear how museums volunteers by giving them greater Services, Washington, DC; Eloise Batic, are learning from each other and responsibility and matching jobs Director of Exhibitions Research and jumpstarting their StEPs programs. to specialized skills; opening their Development, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN; Joanne Hyppolite, Ph.D., Chair: Cherie Cook, Senior Program Manager, volunteer program to younger and Chief Curator, HistoryMiami, Miami, FL; AASLH, Jefferson City, MO; Bethany different people; and bringing about the Mark Isaksen, Senior Program Officer, IMLS, Hawkins, Program Manager, AASLH, Washington, DC; Sarah Blannett Pharaon, Nashville, TN; James M. Manning, Executive institutional shifts necessary to support Director of U.S. Initiatives, International Director, Oaklands Historic House Museum, these changes. Coalition of Sites of Conscience, New York, NY Murfreesboro, TN; Scott Wands, Program Co-Chairs: Phyllis Gilman, Volunteer Officer, Connecticut Humanities, Middletown, Administrator, Kentucky Historical Society, CT Frankfort, KY; and Rebecca Martin, Volunteer International Collaboration, and Tour Coordinator, National Archives and Extraordinary Benefits Records Administration, Washington, DC; Universities and Local History: Sharon Dean, Director of Museum and Library XX Room: East L Building Connections Services, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, International collaborations present XX Room: East A OH unique opportunities for expanding Colleges and universities are audience and mission while offering increasingly engaging in local history up an unexpected set of difficulties to projects that enhance educational 3:30–4 pm overcome. The panel will explore the experiences, involve local residents reasons for and benefits of reaching out in university life, and support local Break in Exhibit Hall globally along with tips for bridging the

34 4–5:15 pm continued level to support new programmatic a powerful slavery story? Come and hear approaches where historical the results, and then help presenters cultural divide a museum may encounter perspectives can add value to develop a visitor experience for all that in creating joint programs and exhibits. addressing contemporary issues. could be a mode for historic house Chair: Sally Roesch Wagner, Ph.D., Whether it be dialogue, social media, interpretation. Executive Director, The Matilda Joslyn Gage cross-regional collaboration, or other Chair: Sheryl Hack, President, Connecticut Foundation, Fayetteville, NY; Laura Anderson, new notions, how can museums move Landmarks, Hartford, CT; James Chung, Archivist/International Oral History Project forward and yet maintain integrity? President, Reach Advisors, Quincy, MA; Administrator, Birmingham Civil Rights Robert Kiihne, Exhibition Designer and Chair: Rick West, President and CEO, Autry Institute, Birmingham, AL; Sonya Kassis, Museum Consultant, Concord, MA National Center of the American West, Los Educator, Arab American National Museum, Angeles, CA; Michael Rose, Executive Vice Dearborn, MI President, Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, Working with the Deaf GA; Elizabeth Silkes, Executive Director, Community Many Voices, One Chorus for International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, Your Collection New York, NY; Emily Zimmern, President, XX Room: East B Levine Museum of the New South, Charlotte, How do you meet the needs of a deaf XX Room: East G NC or hearing-impaired visitor to your Preservation is often cited as central museum? Learn what a deaf person to the mission of institutions that hold Small Museum Leadership might ask and expect of us, how to collections. Yet clear delineation of Considered: Picking Your High- welcome a deaf casual visitor into collection care responsibilities is often Priority Project your facility, and how you might build missing, leaving collections vulnerable. XX Room: East N a longterm relationship with the deaf This session will allow participants to community in your area. explore steps they can take to encourage Overwhelmed by the new ideas you’ve (re)discovered at the conference? Chair: Jeff Harris, Director, Local History broad-based participation in preventative Services, Indiana Historical Society, care at their own institutions. Daunted by what you will do upon your Indianapolis, IN; Jerry Cooper, President and Chair: Ruth Seyler, Membership and Meetings return? Take this session to reflect on Museum Director, Indiana Deaf Heritage, Inc., Director, American Institute for Conservation, which ideas will have the most impact Indianapolis, IN; Kristina Johnson, Student, Washington, DC; Rebecca Fifield, Collections on your organization and your ability IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN Manager, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New to lead it with a priority-setting activity York, NY; James Zilius, Manager of Historic designed by the co-editors of the Small Interiors and Collections Care, Colonial 5:15–6 pm Willliamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA Museum Toolkit. Co-Chairs: Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, CEO, Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME; and Developing Leaders @SHA The Period of Significance Stacy Klingler, Assistant Director, Local Reception is NOW: Catalytic Change at History Services, Indiana Historical Society, National Trust Historic Sites Indianapolis, IN Cost: Free; Preregistration required XX Room: East J XX Room: East M The National Trust for Historic TIE—A Thinking Big at Historic Preservation has resolved to create Sites Futures Scenarios Game catalytic change across its twenty- XX Room: East O 5:30–6:30 pm seven historic sites based on defining Using TIE, a scenario-building game their period of significance as NOW. inspired by future studies practice, This session will outline the principles, participants explore strategies for International Coalition of Sites assessment, and network that support incorporating innovation into traditional of Conscience Reception this effort and case studies of change museum programs or exhibits. By Cost: Free prototypes at National Trust sites. brainstorming big ideas without XX Room: East D Chair: Katherine Malone-France, Director of limitations, the game creates unique Find yourself nodding in agreement Outreach, Education, and Support, National juxtapositions, and feeds curiosity and with the speakers at International Trust for Historic Preservation, Washington, creativity, resulting in strategies for Coalition of Sites of Conscience DC; Cindi Malinick, Louise B. Potter Senior Director of Sites Stewardship, National Trust scaling ideas to institutions of any size/ sessions? Please join us to meet our for Historic Preservation, Washington, DC; budget. members, find out more about the Estevan Rael-Galvez, Ph.D., Senior Vice Chair: Kate Burgess-MacIntosh, Principal, Coalition, and learn how you can President of Historic Sites, National Trust for Revitalizing Historic Sites, Lowell, MA; Ron participate in ongoing efforts to move Historic Preservation, Washington, DC M. Potvin, Assistant Director and Curator, John Nicholas Brown Center for Public visitors from memory to action. Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Brown Shift Change: Organizational University, Providence, RI Culture Shifts to Address 6:30–9:30 pm Contemporary Issues and Use Turning Historic House New Forms of Community Museums Upside Down: Teens Leadership in History Awards Engagement Reinterpret a House Banquet XX Room: East F XX Room: East K Cost: $60; Preregistration required This session is tailored for executive What do you get when you mix a group XX Room: East Ballroom A directors and senior team members to of teenagers, a diverse neighborhood, explore the shifts at board and staff and a 300-year-old historic house with

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7:30–8:45 am 9–10:15 am The Continuum of Excellence and How Your Museum Can Be Breakfast: Military History Concurrent Sessions a Part of It Affinity Group XX Room: East J Cost: $30; Preregistration Required Commemorating Controversy: Learn how your institution can take XX Room: Birmingham Ballroom 1 The Dakota–U.S. War of 1862 part in the Continuum of Excellence (Sheraton) XX Room: East K and how AASLH and AAM are working Join the AASLH Military History Affinity The war began with broken treaties and together for history museums to Group as they network and hear about cultural upheaval. It ended with the move between the StEPs, MAP, the Confederate Powder Works, the largest mass execution in U.S. history Core Documents Verification, and greatest industrial accomplishment of and exile of the Dakota nation. Learn Accreditation programs. the Confederacy. In only nine months about a partnership that produced a Chair: Cherie Cook, Senior Program Manager, AASLH, Jefferson City, MO; Jill a group of Confederate engineers built college course, public lectures, and an Connors-Joyner, Assistant Director, Museum a factory that produced over three exhibit that served thousands, engaged Assessment Program, American Alliance of million pounds of gunpowder in three Dakota communities, and changed Museums, Washington, DC years. The breakfast speaker, Gordon students’ lives forever. Blaker, is a coauthor of the book Never Chair: Ben Leonard, Executive Director, From Reconstruction to for Want of Powder: The Confederate Nicollet County Historical Society, Saint Peter, Desegregation: Oral History and Powder Works at Augusta, Georgia. MN; Dr. Elizabeth Baer, Professor in English, African Studies and Gender, Women, and the African American Experience Chair: Gordon Blaker, Director/Curator, U.S. Sexuality Studies, Gustavus Adolphus College, in Northwest Alabama Army Artillery Museum, Ft. Sill, OK St. Peter, MN; Victoria Clark, Student, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN XX Room: East L This session examines the experience of African Americans in the Shoals region of Alabama, in particular African American activism as embodied by the Muscle Shoals Missionary Baptist

36 9–10:15 am continued ones”? If so, help decide what to do about it! This session recaps and then Association in the late 1900s and builds on the 2012 session “Do History the movement towards desegregation Museums Still Need Objects?” Come in the 1950s and 60s as reflected in prepared to discuss practical ways to oral history interviews conducted by solve these problems. Alabama Tourism Department Alabama Tourism students enrolled in the Public History Chair: Trevor Jones, Director, Museum Collections and Exhibitions, Kentucky Program at the University of North Historical Society, Frankfort, KY; Paul Alabama. Bourcier, Chief Curator, Wisconsin Historical Chair: Dr. Carolyn Barske, Assistant Professor Society, Madison, WI of Public History, The University of North Alabama, Florence, AL; Kristin Briggs, Reference Librarian, Florence Lauderdale Social Media Madness! Alabama Sports Hall of Fame Public Library, Florence, AL; Hanna Goode XX Room: East C Garmon, Graduate Student, The University of Overwhelmed by social media? Worried North Alabama, Florence, AL; John Wesley Garmon, Graduate Student, The University your institution is not doing it right? We Have a Difficult Story to Tell, of North Alabama, Florence, AL; Thomas Explore what’s hot, what’s not, what Now What? McKnight, President, Tennessee Valley works, and who’s who in social media. A XX Room: East A Historical Society, Tuscumbia, AL March Madness-esque bracket of social Your community has a difficult story media platforms accompanied by social to tell—is it time for your organization Movement Creates Museum: media experts via Google Hangout will to address it with the community? Activist Beginnings of History be on board for this lively discussion. Examine how three organizations Institutions Chair: Jamie Glavic, Strategic Projects chose to tell a difficult story, how they Coordinator, Ohio Historical Society, XX Room: East F Columbus, OH; Michelle Moon, Assistant made the decision to move forward, How do we reclaim, democratize, Director for Adult Programs, Peabody Essex what issues they encountered, and the and actualize history in contemporary Museum, Salem, MA positive and negative outcomes. spaces? How does activism make a Chair: Maggie Marconi, Museum difference in the realization of cultural Trends in Local History: Lessons Administrator, Sandusky Library/Follett and historic spaces and in the fight House Museum, Sandusky, OH; Jason Crabill, Learned from the Encyclopedia Manager, Curatorial Services, Ohio Historical for social justice? This panel will of Local History, 2nd Edition Society, Columbus, OH; Jeffrey Nichols, present the approaches of museums XX Room: East B President and CEO, Thomas Jefferson’s remembering different histories but Poplar Forest, Forest, VA; Shelia Washington, Editors of the Encyclopedia of Local sharing a commitment to engage their Founder and Chairperson, Scottsboro Boy History will present trends in local histories in the struggle for justice. Museum and Cultural Center, Scottsboro, AL history that stem from newly published Chair: Jennifer Scott, Vice Director/Director of Research, Weeksville Heritage Center, essays about local history in the states, Brooklyn, NY; Barbara Lau, Director, Pauli about museums and practices in the 10:15–10:45 am Murray Project, Durham, NC; Yolanda Chavez field, and technological innovations. Leyva, Ph.D., Director, Museo Urbano, They invite discussion on innovative Break In East Lobby D–M Department of History, University of El Paso, programs strategies, and trends from El Paso, TX around North America and threats to doing history well. Practical Solutions for Chair: Amy H. Wilson, Independent Museum 10:45 am–12 pm Rethinking Our Collections and Professional, Roswell, GA; Tim Grove, Chief, How We Use Them Museum Learning, National Air and Space Concurrent Sessions Museum, Washington, DC XX Room: East G Do you feel that your institution is not 2014 Annual Meeting making the best use of collections? Roundtable Are the objects you have not the “right XX Room: East G The program committee for the 2014 AASLH Annual Meeting in St. Paul, MN, wants to hear your ideas for making the next meeting better. What did you like about the meeting? What should we have done differently? Members of the 2014 Annual Meeting

Alabama Tourism Department Alabama Tourism program committee should attend. All meeting attendees are welcome. Chair: Erin Carlson Mast, Director, President Lincoln’s Cottage, Washington, DC; Bob Beatty, Vice President for Programs, AASLH, Nashville, TN Wurlitzer pipe organ at the Alabama Theatre 37 Saturday, September 21

10:45 am–12 pm continued Direct Care: Pushing the Exterior discussed only as anonymous creators Envelope of archaeological objects, and African American and women’s stories are The Birmingham Civil Rights XX Room: East F physically segregated? This session Heritage Trail and the Future of Historic sites are pushing the envelope offers opportunities for discussion Cultural Tourism in searching for funds to address from curatorial, design, and museum- XX Room: East K critical capital needs. An exploration education perspectives. This panel will thoroughly outline the of ethical standards and site-specific planning and design process used to examples will prompt a lively and Chair: Rebecca Bush, Curator of History, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA; create this historically accurate trail. substantive discussion of when the use John Jackson, Exhibition Designer, Nelson- Lessons learned from foot soldiers, of disposition proceeds on a building is Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; historians, and visitors would further appropriate and when it is not. Jessamy South, Youth and Family Programs inform future challenges to the Chair: William Cook, Associate General Coordinator, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA establishment of a cultural heritage Counsel, National Trust for Historic tourism industry for civil rights/kinship Preservation, Washington, DC; Janet L. Mintzer, President and CEO, Pearl S. Buck Lessons from the Field: cities throughout the region and nation. International, Perkasie, PA Chair: Renee Kemp-Rotan, Director, Collaboration and Access in Oral Birmingham Civil Rights Heritage Trail History Escaping “Great Men” History Program, Birmingham, AL; Bettina Byrd-Giles, XX Room: East E Intercultural Communication, The Byrd’s on a Budget: DIY Gallery Oral history is often used to connect Nest, LLC, Birmingham, AL; Brigette George, Renovations Records Manager, City of Birmingham, formal history to ordinary people. After Birmingham, AL; Sara Hamlin, Vice President XX Room: East C the interviews have been conducted, of Tourism, Greater Birmingham Convention How can you update decades-old how do organizations of all sizes make and Visitors Bureau, Birmingham, AL; Vickii interpretation to create a more Howell, Editor, Birmingham View Magazine, sure that these important records of Birmingham, AL inclusive and engaging narrative in a history are built into collection plans gallery where American Indians are as well as accessible to researchers

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38 10:45 am–12 pm continued and the public at large? This panel will discuss this topic through the case studies of two oral history organizations. Birmingham CVB Images Chair: Mark Sundlov, Site Supervisor, The Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile Site, Cooperstown, ND; Jennifer Abraham Cramer, Director, Louisiana State University’s T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History, Baton Rouge, LA; Sarah Milligan, Oral History Administrator, Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY

Lights, Camera, Alabama: Making Movies about Local History XX Room: East L Lights, Camera, Alabama trains and supports community members, students, museums, and teachers to make movies about state and local history on a budget. The session will also discuss how to distribute the movies and use them to raise funds for Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum your institution. Chair: Billy Field, Instructor, Honors College, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; Emily Clark, Student, University of Alabama, Labs 1:30–5 pm Tuscaloosa, AL; Jazzmin Franklin, Film Maker, Birmingham, AL; Dora Johnson, Director, Face in the Courthouse Window Museum, These events are not included in the annual meeting registration fee and Carrollton, AL; Bethany Rogers, Student, require preregistration. See the registration form for details. University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; Evan Terry, Student, University of Alabama, Exhibition Research, Oral History, and Artifact Collection: Tuscaloosa, AL One Museum’s Community-Based Approach Whose History Are You Getting? Cost: $25; preregistration required XX Room: Vulcan Park and Museum Exploring the Neglected Stories In this lab, collaborators behind Vulcan Park and Museum’s recent in Your Community exhibition A Place of Our Own: The Fourth Avenue District, Civil Rights, XX Room: East A and the Rise of Birmingham’s Black Middle Class discuss the techniques Local history has long focused on they used to gather information and objects to tell a compelling and a white, mainstream voice. It is a accurate story using a small staff and modest budget. A tour of Vulcan challenge for historians to explore Park and Museum and the exhibit are included in the lab. and expose the unheard voices of the Chair: Phillip Ratliff, Director of Education, Vulcan Park and Museum, Birmingham, AL; past. This panel will focus on sites Shelia Cook, Educational Program Coordinator, Vulcan Park and Museum, Birmingham, which have gone beyond the white, AL; Lindsay Elliott, Museum Specialist, Vulcan Park and Museum, Birmingham, AL; male, or mainstream voices of local Michele Forman, Co-Director of Digital Community Studies, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; Rosie O’Beirne, Co-Director of Digital Community communities to explore a broader Studies, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL history that includes reframing the big stories of the past to include untold The SHA Saturday Seminar: Preview, Renew, or Refresh Your perspectives. Leadership Potential Chair: Jeanne Schultz Angel, Executive Director, Lombard Historical Society, Cost: $25; preregistration required Lombard, IL; Isis Ferguson, Museum Program XX Alabama Sports Hall of Fame Coordinator, Jane Addams Hull-House Focusing on K-12 education, this lab is an opportunity for prospective Museum, Chicago, IL; Todd Palmer, Curator SHA participants to experience the SHA learning environment for the first of Creativity and Public Engagement, National time. The seminar is also an opportunity for SHA alumni to reunite and Public Housing Museum, Chicago, IL gain additional professional development in the SHA format they know and love (and probably miss). Wrap up your conference experience with an active, challenging, and thought-provoking experience designed to develop history leaders. Chair: Tim Hoogland, Director of Education Outreach Programs, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN; Stacia L. Kuceyeski, CEO of Creative Learning Factory, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, OH

39 Special Thanks

AASLH would like to recognize the many volunteers who contributed their valuable time, energy, and expertise to the success of this year’s conference. We appreciate you!

Program Committee

Katherine Kane, Chair Kristin Gallas Sarah Blannett Pharaon Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Consultant International Coalition of Sites of Conscience Hartford, CT Watertown, MA New York, NY Laura Caldwell Anderson Leigh Grinstead Kathy Shinnick Birmingham Civil Rights Institute LYRASIS University of Massachusetts Birmingham, AL Denver, CO Boston, MA Lisa Anderson Carol Harsh Elizabeth Silkes Mesa Historical Museum Smithsonian Institution/SITES International Coalition of Sites of Conscience Mesa, AZ Washington, DC New York, NY Joanna Arrieta Lynne Ireland Ryan Spencer Newnan-Coweta Historical Society Nebraska State Historical Society The Henry Ford Newnan, GA Lincoln, NE Dearborn, MI Dina Bailey Andrea Kajer Scott Stroh National Underground Railroad Freedom Minnesota Historical Society Milwaukee County Historical Society Center St. Paul, MN Milwaukee, WI Cincinnati, OH Jeffrey Kollath Mark Sundlov Harvey Bakari Milwaukee County Historical Society State Historical Society of North Dakota Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Milwaukee, WI Cooperstown, ND Williamsburg, VA Laura Koloski James Vaughan Bill Bomar Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Moundville Archaeological Park Philadelphia, PA Commission Tuscaloosa, AL Harrisburg, PA Yolanda Chávez Leyva, Ph.D. Tanya Brock University of Texas at El Paso Tobi Voigt Minnetrista Cultural Center El Paso, TX Detroit Historical Society Muncie, IN Detroit, MI Maggie Marconi Catherine Burkhart Sandusky Library/Follett House Museum Megan Wood Carnegie Museum of Montgomery County Sandusky, OH Ohio Historical Society Crawfordsville, IN Columbus, OH Tim McElroy Marian Carpenter CR Smith Museum Anne Woosley National Civil Rights Musuem DFW Airport, TX Arizona Historical Society Cordova, TN Tucson, AZ Steve Murray Priscilla Cooper Alabama Department of Archives and History Travis Zimmerman Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Montgomery, AL Mille Lac Indian Museum Birmingham, AL Onamia, MN Jeffrey Nichols Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest Forest, VA Birmingham Host Committee

Angela Fisher Hall, Chair Deborah Gray Stefanie Rookis Birmingham Public Library Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences Multicultural Center Laura Caldwell Anderson Lee Sentell Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Tuskegee Alabama Tourism Department Montgomery Irene S. Blalock Renee Kemp-Rotan Birmingham Civil Rights Heritage Trail Birmingham Public Library Karen R. Utz Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark Jina Clark, TMP Steve Murray Alabama Department of Archives & History Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce Jennifer Watts Montgomery Montgomery Iron and Steel Museum of Alabama at Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park Wayne Coleman Darlene Negrotto Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Vulcan Park and Museum McCalla Priscilla Hancock Cooper Georgette M. Norman Tom White Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Troy University Rosa Parks Museum US Space and Rocket Center Montgomery Huntsville Jerry Desmond Birmingham History Center Dr. Lawrence J. Pijeaux, Jr. Annie Williams Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Greater Birmingham Convention & Visitors Janice M. Granger Bureau Birmingham Public Library Dr. Robert Rathburn Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark

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