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» Choose from more than 70 sessions that will » Learn the importance of visitor research and how it show you the latest in developing, delivering, and affects your visitor experience and bottom-line marketing history » Explore the newest products and services that » The days of history and sites as cabinets directly improve the way history professionals of curiosity are gone. Discover how to succeed in operate by visiting the AASLH Exhibit Hall a technology-saturated society » Have fun while exploring the best that Indy has to » Network and share your specifi c and unique offer with evening events and engaging tours of challenges by participating in an AASLH Affi nity historic Indianapolis Group event » NEW! AASLH Career Counseling Center: Get » Discover new and improved models of resume writing tips, career advice, and more, operations for historic houses, history museums, specifi cally for history and professionals and sites by participating in labs and premeeting » The 1772 Foundation is sponsoring a session workshops track specifi cally for the sustainability of history » Explore entrepreneurship by marrying fresh new organizations. Look for this symbol throughout concepts with your mission as stewards of the past the program descriptions for more details

ABOUT INDY! WHO ATTENDS? History, art, and culture thrive in Indianapolis with not The Annual Meeting provides the following new and one, not two, but six distinct cultural districts. For history experienced history professionals with the networking enthusiasts there is no other place like Indianapolis! and resources they need to succeed and become You will fi nd inspiring museums, delightful public leaders in the fi eld: art, unique galleries, quaint shops, and engaging » Archivists » Librarians sites. Indianapolis offers inspiring examples of history organizations as entrepreneurs thanks to partnerships » CEOs » Museum Administrators with diverse institutions helping to build Indianapolis » Curators » Preservationists into a vibrant center for heritage, culture, and the arts. » Directors » Program Managers » Educators » Students Conner Prairie totally revamped its approach to » Executive Directors » And More visitor engagement. The Historical Society is » Historians introducing a major new visitor experience to share its archival collections with the public. The President Benjamin Harrison Home opened its historic rooms to accommodate live theatre performances. The extends its brand across the state and beyond by building exhibition partnerships with other museums. Through the creation of world-class international traveling exhibits, The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis expands its reach far beyond its physical walls.

2 Making History a 21st-Century Enterprise One-of-a-Kind

CONTENTS Learning Experience for » Annual Meeting Highlights ..... page 4

» Schedule At-A-Glance...... page 8 historyprofessionals

» Indy Tours and Evening Events. page 10 “The AASLH Annual Meeting is one of the best » Premeeting Workshops...... page 13 learning opportunities for history professionals. This is where I get new ideas, connect with old friends, and » Concurrent Sessions & Program page 15 stay current with the latest trends and best practices.”

» Hands-On Lab Learning...... page 26 Jody Blankenship » Hotel & Travel...... page 27 Manager of Outreach and Field Services Ohio Historical Society » Registration Information...... page 27 Columbus, OH

» Registration Form...... page 28

3 Engaging Intellectual Discourse

AASLH Book Discussions, sponsored by the National Council on Public History, are stimulating intellectual discourse on current scholarships affecting you. Read Sharing Your Passion & books of your choice ahead of time and then later discuss them with colleagues at the Annual Meeting Unique Challenges as follows:

The Annual Meeting includes activities and networking specifi cally for the Massacre at Camp Grant fi eld of state and local history! You’re invited to attend the following AASLH by Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh Affi nity Group events to discuss the latest issues, share ideas, and to help Group Discussion: Friday, August 28 at 4:00 pm initiate change that is specifi c to you: A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory » Military History Breakfast » Corporate History Museums in America by James H. Madison on Friday and Archives Group Discussion: Saturday, August 29 at 8:15 am Tour on Wednesday and » Presidential Sites and Lunch on Thursday Libraries Breakfast on Friday » Court and Legal History » Small Museums NEW! Career Session and Lunch on Friday Luncheon on Thursday Counseling » Educators and Interpreters » State Capitols Breakfast and Educator’s Session and tour of the Facing a job change or in the middle of one? AASLH is Showcase on Thursday Indiana State Capitol on here to help! With the challenging times facing museums and historical organizations, a group of leaders in the » Historic House Museums Thursday afternoon fi eld are volunteering to meet with you one-on-one at the Breakfast on Saturday » Visitors’ Voices Annual Meeting to review your resume, suggest resources, » IDEA–Internet Digital Evaluators and Visitors’ and simply listen to your personal career concerns and Encyclopedia Alliance Services—Sessions throughout interests. Preregistration is required. Mark the appropriate Sessions throughout the the meeting box on the registration form and you will be contacted by meeting an AASLH staff member to schedule an appointment on

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NEW! Sustainability is More Accessible Th an Ever Before! AASLH thanks The 1772 Foundation for sponsoring a track at the Annual Meeting specifi cally for the sustainability of history organizations. Look for this symbol throughout the Annual Meeting guide and program descriptions for details.

Featured Speakers: Hearing from the Best! Thursday, August 27 Friday, August 28 10:45 am - 12:15 pm 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm » Harold Holzer » Mike Wallace Harold Holzer is one of the country’s Mike Wallace, coauthor of the Pulitzer- leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln Prize winning Gotham: A History of and the political culture in the Civil War New York City to 1898, is Distinguished

era. A prolifi c writer and lecturer, and Professor of History at John Jay College of frequent guest on television, he serves Criminal Justice (City University of New as cochairman of the United States York). His most recent book—A New Deal Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. He has for New York—examines the future of post Photo credit: Harold Holtzer Harold credit: Photo authored, coauthored, and edited twenty- Center Gothem credit: Photo September 11 New York in the light of two books on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, including its past. He published a series of essays that explore the ways The Lincoln Image, Lincoln Seen and Heard, Dear Mr. Lincoln: history is used and abused in American popular culture, including Letters to the President, Lincoln as I Knew Him, and Lincoln on pieces on Disney World, Colonial Williamsburg, the Enola Gay Democracy. Holzer is vice president for communications and controversy at the Smithsonian, and historic preservation; these marketing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. have been collected in Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory (1997) and he helped found the Radical Saturday, August 29 History Review (now affi liated with Duke University Press). Wal- 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm lace is now working on the second volume of Gotham: A History » James H. Madison of New York City that will cover the history of New York City James H. Madison is Thomas and Kathryn from 1898 through the Second World War. Miller Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is author of A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America and numerous other books. His teaching and research focus primarily on twentieth-century United

Photo credit: James Madison James credit: Photo States history. Often he uses Indiana as his particular place for writing and teaching, including a recent book about race. In the last decade, he moved more fully into the history of World War II, especially wartime domestic issues, and to seeing the war from a global perspective. He has two books on the war era forthcoming, one in Oxford University Press “Pages from History” series and the other centered on the war experiences of a young woman working with the American Red Cross in England and France. 5 Explore New Products and Services in the Exhibit Hall On Thursday, August 27 - Friday, August 28 don’t miss your chance to visit the AASLH Career Kiosk and meet more than sixty vendors and suppliers at this year’s Annual Meeting. The Exhibit Hall is your place to network, check out the latest technology and services being offered, and WIN lots of great prizes! Field Services Alliance Annual Meeting The fall meeting of FSA will be held from 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm on Wednesday, August 26. Members and interested col- leagues of FSA will gather to begin consideration of measuring fi eld services outcomes and fi nalizing the draft outline of a Field Services Manual. Also, FSA will be updating attendees on a variety of issues facing local grassroots historical organi- zations. Visit www.aaslh.org/FSA for more information. Educators Showcase The Educators and Interpreters Committee will be sponsoring a free showcase of outstanding education and interpretation programs in the exhibit hall, during the break from 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm on Thursday, August 27. It will feature several cos- tumed interpreters from sites that offer excellent fi rst person and/or museum theater presentations, as well as other examples of excellent museum educational programs.

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Invitation to Indianapolis

The days of museums as cabinets of curiosity are gone. To succeed in our increasingly fast-paced, technology-saturated society, we must embrace new models of operation. Remembering from 2007 that relevance equals the bottom line, and from 2008 the power of transformation, we envision becoming centers for ideas and inspiration–cultural entrepreneurs. The 2009 AASLH and AIM Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, will explore the place of fi eld–marrying fresh concepts with our mission as stewards entrepreneurship within the of the past. her The city of Indianapolis provides the setting for AASLH and AIM members to gat and discuss how we may help our institutions leveragel truththeir andgreatest authenticity. strengths. This We is area powerful overwhelmingly recognized as the keepers of historica position, with great opportunity and responsibility. What are the most promising new ideas, best practices, and models to connect our audiences with our intellectual capital?

As entrepreneurs, our product is not tangible, but rather experiential through high-quality visitor services. To compete in the global economy, our product must be developed, delivered, and marketed with a level of passion and knowledge that makes it meaningful and valuablefi scal to visitors, donors, and stakeholders. Cultural entrepreneurship does not end with the bottom line. It inspires meaningful interaction among visitors, multiple constituencies, and staff; it connects personal history to the larger history of our nation and our world; and it promotes positive social change.

At the 2009 AASLH and AIM Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, we seek to engage in candid and informative conversations that will equip and inspire each entrepreneur in attendance and each organization represented. So make your reservations now to join your colleagues in citing week of professional development and networking that will expand Indianapolis for an ex fi eld of state and local history. your knowledge and transform your experiences in the

D. Stephen Elliott, Program Committee Chair President New York State Historical Association and The Farmers’ Museum

John Herbst, Host Committee Chair President and CEO Indiana Historical Society

7 SCHEDULE-AT-A-GLANCE TUES. AUGUST 25 8:15 am - 9:45 am Concurrent Sessions 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm » Change the Way Your Institution Looks at » Afternoon Refreshment Break and Educators 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Registration Disaster Planning Showcase in the Exhibit Hall » Ethics in Tough Times 4:15 pm - 5:45 pm Concurrent Sessions WED. AUGUST 26 » Help Has Arrived: AASLH’s New » The AASLH Mentor Committee: How 7:00 am - 6:00 pm Registration Standards Program Mentoring Can Best Serve the Field 8:00 am - 5:30 pm » It’s Not Just a Museum: Surviving Within a » Beyond Pushing Buttons: Using Technology to » Tour: Small-Town Indiana: Community Larger Organization Connect with New Audiences Collaboration on Display Cost $75 » Connecting to Collections: State By State » Building Community Through History, Part 2 8:30 am - 12:00 pm » Measuring Success at Historic Sites » A Conversation About Small Museums: » Resources for Funding, Collections Care, » Workshop: Finding the Right Balance: A Perspectives on Re-Housing Collections and More Workshop on Conceptual Planning » Small Museum Town Hall Meeting: Federal » Cost $45 Formula Grants Discovering Your Hidden Audience » Documenting the Global War on Terror » Workshop: Hands-On History Interactives » Technology, Web 2.0, and Historic Sites: Cost $45 Strategies for Engagement » Forum for Mid-Career and Mid-Level » Professionals 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Transforming Collaboration: Teaching American History Projects » Historic Sites Providing Life and Leadership in » Workshop: Off the Walls: Online Exhibits » Volunteers and Our Institutions: Crafting a Their Communities from the Ground Up Cost $75 Better Partnership » Presidential Libraries and Museums: Mixing » Workshop: Practical Methods Toward a 8:30 am - 1:30 pm Scholarship with Showmanship Storage Model: An Overview of How to » » TeachingHistory.org: Connecting Museums Stabilize Museum Collections Cost $75 Tour: Discovering Indy Cost $25 9:45 am - 10:45 am with K-12 Educators » Workshop: Wire, Wood, Words, and Your » Visitors’ Voices Roundtable Objects Cost $75 » Morning Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall 5:45 pm - 6:30 pm » By Invitation Only: CEO Forum: Social » Reception: Eastern Illinois University Entrepreneurship: Leading Through Crisis and 10:45 am - 12:15 pm Cost Free Embracing Change Cost $150 or » Keynote Speaker Harold Holzer » $225 for two 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Reception: Seminar for Historical Administration Cost Free 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm » Corporate History Luncheon Cost $30 5:45 pm - 7:00 pm » Tour: Corporate History Cost $25 » Small Museums Luncheon Cost $30 » Reception: Association of Indiana 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm Museums Cost $25 » Tour: Oldfi elds-Lilly House and Gardens at » Workshop: Digital Encyclopedia Hands-On 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm the Indianapolis Museum of Art Cost $25 Workshop Cost $45 » Evening Event: A Night on the Prairie 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm Concurrent Sessions » Workshop: Opening Doors to Empowering Cost $38 Frontline Staff Cost $45 » Advocacy for History Organizations » » Field Services Alliance Meeting Building Community Through History, Part I » Field Services Alliance Presents Museum Tips 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center photo credit: Indiana Historical Society » Finding Your Place in History—The National » Tour: Victorian Indianapolis Cost $25 Historical Landmark Program 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm » Incorporating Web 2.0 Technologies with a » Evening Event: Opening Night on the Staff of One Historic Central Canal Cost $38 » Is Less More? Evaluating Management Systems at Historic Sites THURS. AUGUST 27 » Membership+Annual Giving+Capital Campaign=Total Fundraising, All the Time 7:00 am - 6:00 pm Registration » Four Decades of Innovation: Engagement, 7:00 am - 8:00 am Excellence, and Entrepreneurship at » Educators and Interpreters Breakfast Conner Prairie Cost $25 » Surviving Corporate Mergers/Acquisitions » Directors Breakfast Cost $25 » The Value of Live Interpretation 7:00 am – 8:15 am » What Now? How to Get the Most Out of » Tour: Breakfast Stroll Around Monument Your Audience Research Findings Circle Cost $15

8 Making History a 21st-Century Enterprise FRI. AUGUST 28 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm 8:15 am - 9:45 am Concurrent Sessions » Plenary Speaker Mike Wallace » Online Encyclopedia Best Practices and 7:00 am - 6:00 pm Registration 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm Standards 7:00 am - 8:30 am » Tour: Four Buildings and a Movie Cost $25 » Preserve America and Save America’s » Military History/Presidential Sites Joint 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Treasures: Grant Programs for the Breakfast Cost $25 » Afternoon Refreshment Break in the 21st Century 8:15 am - 9:45 am Concurrent Sessions Exhibit Hall and PRIZE Giveaways! » Problems with Military Donations » Are They Being Served? CT Cultural 4:15 pm - 5:45 pm Concurrent Sessions » Why Change Utopia? Consumer Survey » How Performance Management Can » Working Together to Reach New Audiences: » Everything Old Is New Again—Fresh Help You Determine What’s Driving the A Primer for Partnerships Approaches to Interpretation and Exhibition Visitor Experience 9:45 am - 10:30 am of Special Collections and Archives » How Sustainable Is Your Historic » Break » Food for Thought House Museum? 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Concurrent Sessions » Getting It Done: Achieving and Sustaining » Look Who’s 50: The Seminar for Historical » 2010 Annual Meeting Roundtable Community Change Though Diverse Administration » Breaking Through the Bricks and Mortar: Partnerships » Making History with NEH Support Reaching New Audiences Through » IMLS Opportunities That Support » Massacre at Camp Grant Collaborative Techniques 21st-Century Enterprise » Museums and 21st-Century Skills » Building a Worldwide Audience for » Managing Your Museum through Hard Times » Museums as Incubators of Civic Engagement Your Collection » No Safe Haven: Revisioning the » Mutual Goals Between Curators, » Creating Lasting Value Through in Indiana Conservators, and Educators Commemoration of the Civil War 150 » The Object and Not-Object: Exploring » Outdoor History Museums: Learning and » History Museums and Virtual Worlds Differences in Viewing Sharing Green Practices » IDEA Roundtable » Pruning the Sick, Dying, and Dead: » Succession Planning: Commitment, Not » Involving Youth in Historic Preservation Conscientious Efforts to Remove What No Just a Process » More Than a Life Story: Expanding Historic Longer Fits » Terms of Endearment: Nomenclature 3.0 Site Interpretation to Attract New Audiences » Site Integrity and the Entrepreneurial Spirit: for Museum Cataloging » The Public History Field School: Virginia City, Integrating Ventures with Vision » Web Usability Lab Montana, a Case Study » Touch and Know: Interactive Technology, 5:45 pm - 6:30 pm » Thinking Outside the Museum Walls: A Exhibits, and Education » National Council on Public History Reception New, and Possibly Old Approach to 8:30 am - 1:30 pm Cost Free Local History » Tour: Automotive Indianapolis Cost $30 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm » Yes We Can: Undergraduate Students and 10:45 am - 12:00 pm » Evening Event: Journey Through Time Service to Local History » Meeting of the Membership Cost $38 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm Hands-On Labs 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm » Artifact Presentation at The Children’s » Networking Luncheon in the Exhibit Hall SAT. AUGUST 29 Museum of Indianapolis: Changing Methods Open to all for Changing Times » Court and Legal History Luncheon Cost $30 7:00 am - 12:00 pm Registration » Behind the Scenes at the Museums 7:00 am - 8:00 am and Archives » Historic House Museums Breakfast » Pathways Cost $25 » Teaching Local History Using Museum 8:00 am - 5:30 pm Theatre » Tour: Hospitality: West Baden and » Theatrical Performance in Historic Buildings French Lick Springs Hotel Cost $75 » Small Museums 2.0: Creating a Cost and 8:15 am - 9:45 am Concurrent Sessions Time Effective Web Presence » AASLH Awards: The Final Frontier 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm » Adults, History, and the Real World » Tour: Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the » Demonstrating the Value of History Great Pharaohs Cost $25 » Digital Primary Resources: Creating, 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm Expanding, and Sustaining New Audiences » Recognizing the Best of 2009 at the AASLH for Museums and Archives Awards Banquet Cost $55 » Excellence and Equity: Then, Now, and Next » A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America » Managing History: A 21st Century Approach to Project Management for History Professionals

9 TOURS & EVENING EVENTS These events are not included in the annual meeting registration fee and require preregistration. See the registration form for details. Small-Town Indiana: Corporate History Tour: Eli Community Collaboration on Lilly and Company Display » Wednesday, August 26 » Wednesday, August 26 » 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm » 8:00 am - 5:30 pm » Cost $25 » Cost $75 Join the Corporate History Affi nity Group Travel to Crawfordsville, Indiana a charming as they tour the Eli Lilly Corporate Archives. and prosperous community boasting a Founded in 1876, unique history and beautiful architecture. is one of the leading pharmaceutical Visit the Old Jail Museum—home of the only companies in the United States. Join this tour rotary jail still in operating condition; the to learn how they preserve their corporate Carnegie Museum of Montgomery County; heritage. Lane Place—an 1845 mansion; and the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum, Evening Event: Opening Night home of Wallace memorabilia and place on the Historic Central Canal where he wrote Ben Hur. Enjoy a light lunch » Wednesday, August 26 Monument Circle, photo credit: Association of Indiana Museums at Lane Place Mansion and shopping while » 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm learning how these sites collaborate with the » Cost $38 Breakfast Stroll Around community to create successful programs. Begin your adventure along the beautiful Monument Circle » Thursday, August 27 Central Canal! The Indiana State Museum, Victorian Indianapolis » 7:00 am - 8:15 am constructed from Indiana materials, is a work » Wednesday, August 26 » Cost $15 of art and a tribute to local history. Enjoy » 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm heavy hors d’oeuvres, a cash bar, and a This guided walking tour will start your » Cost $25 breathtaking view while you get acquainted day off on the right foot! While enjoying Take a step back in time to Victorian-era with Indiana’s history. Then visit the breakfast treats at the South Bend Chocolate Indiana as you enter the Old Northside neighboring Eiteljorg Museum of American Company, discover Monument Circle, the —one of Indianapolis’ oldest and most Indians and Western Art, the only Midwest physical and symbolic heart of Indianapolis, prominent neighborhoods originally home museum of its kind. Coffee, wine, and including the architecture and sculpture of to the political and business elite. Indulge in incredible desserts await, and a Western the Soldiers & Sailors Monument. Hear the a Victorian house tour and tea at the 1865 swing band will contribute to this memorable story of Indiana’s capitol city’s plan and the Morris-Butler House Museum followed by evening. histories of the landmarks that surround it a visit to the Victorian home of our nation’s and view the interior of the striking Art-Deco 23rd President, Benjamin Harrison, which styled Circle Tower adorned with houses many original artifacts from his time Egyptian motifs. at the White House.

1865 Morris-Butler House, photo credit: Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana Photo credit: Indiana State Museum Staff Photo Oldfi elds-Lilly House, photo credit: Association of Indiana Museums Oldfi elds-Lilly House and Evening Event: A Night on Gardens at the Indianapolis the Prairie Museum of Art » Thursday, August 27 » Thursday, August 27 » 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm » 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm » Cost $38 Discovering Indy » Cost $25 Tour historical grounds and experience the » Thursday, August 27 Step back into time at the Oldfi elds-Lilly newest exhibit, 1859 Balloon Voyage. Learn » 8:30 am - 12:30 pm House and Gardens, an estate of the about John Wise’s innovative experiment » Cost $25 American country place era on the ground with early aviation through fun and This guided motorcoach tour will provide of the Indianapolis Museum of Art which interactive installations, including a tethered visitors with a brief, but inclusive, overview of boasts one of the most scenic landscapes in hot air balloon. Next, become a historic Indianapolis’ history and landmarks. Along the city. The group will enjoy a guided tour crime scene investigator in 1836 Prairietown. the way you will see landmarks important of the Oldfi elds-Lilly gardens as well as the Then it’s on to 1886 Liberty Corner to African American history and monuments residence, with historically furnished interiors where farm chores, a historic baseball dedicated to military history. Visitors will tour refl ecting the 1930s era. Take advantage game, and theater presentation await. the Madame Walker Theatre Center, named of free admission to the IMA during the last Historically inspired heavy hors d’oeuvres in honor of Madame CJ Walker, America’s hour when you’ll have time to explore the and beverages will be served at 8:00 pm fi rst black female self-made millionaire, and extensive galleries on your own. accompanied by musical entertainment. an important center of African American life in Indianapolis. Tour Crown Hill Cemetery, Automotive Indianapolis » Friday, August 28 the third largest cemetery in the United States » and the resting place of hundreds of men 8:30 am – 1:30 pm and women who became well known in » Cost $30 politics, literature, the arts, and sports. A Indianapolis was once the auto capital of stop will be made at the scenic gravesite of the United States. Visit a gallery of vintage famous Hoosier poet, James Whitcomb Riley, automobiles at the Stutz Business Center also known as “The Children’s Poet.” where the former Stutz Motorcar Company was located in the early 1900s. Then speed off to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987. This year is the centennial celebration of the fi rst motorized race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. After visiting the museum, lace up your walking shoes and brave the crowd to catch some action from the stands on this fi rst day of track activity before the 2009 Red Bull

1934 Winner of the Indianapolis 500 Race Indianapolis GP motorcycle event. Photo credit: Bass Photo Co Collection, Indiana Historical Society 11 12 TOURS & EVENING EVENTS These events are not included in the annual meeting registration fee and require preregistration. See the registration form for details.

Four Buildings and a Movie Hoosier Hospitality: West » Friday, August 28 Baden and French Lick Springs » 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm Hotels » Cost $25 » Saturday, August 29 » 8:00 am – 5:30 pm A cathedral as a gambling hall? An » attorney’s offi ce in a 1895 laboratory? Cost $75 Indianapolis starring as ...Chicago? Tour The grand hotels in French Lick and four unique buildings that came together West Baden Springs—both listed in the in 1987 as backdrops for John Sayles’s National Register of Historic Places—offer acclaimed period baseball fi lm Eight Men a fascinating window into the grand hotel Out. Visit the Scottish Rite Cathedral, the era of the early twentieth century. Guests Indiana Medical History Museum, the from Al Capone to FDR, Bing Crosby to Athenaeum (Das Deutsche Haus), designed Helen Keller, all came to imbibe the waters by author Kurt Vonnegut’s grandfather, and take spa treatments, enjoy sports, and the 1903 U.S. Federal Courthouse’s and perhaps test their luck in the casinos. Dome Overlooking Garden at West Baden Springs photo credit: Association of Indiana Museums Ceremonial Courtroom, all on the National Participants will dine at the Beechwood Register of Historic Places. Inn and experience the awe-inspiring (and AASLH Awards Banquet » Saturday, August 29 newly restored) architecture of West Baden Evening Event: Journey Springs Hotel, originally built in 1902 with » 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm Th rough Time the world’s largest free-span dome. » Cost $55 » Friday, August 28 Join AASLH at the Indianapolis Marriott » 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Tutankhamun: Th e Golden Downtown in honoring the 2009 Leadership » Cost $38 King and the Great Pharaohs in History award winners. James H. Madison » Saturday, August 29 will speak on the importance of place to the Enjoy an evening of presidential pastimes » 2:00 pm – 5:30 pm fi eld of state and local history. The evening and child-inspired time travels. First share will also include dinner and a lively awards a light bite to eat and taste local wines » Cost $25 presentation. at the 1875 Victorian home of Indiana’s Visit the blockbuster exhibit, Tutankhamun: only elected President, Benjamin Harrison. The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs Then journey to The Children’s Museum of at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, a Indianapolis, the largest children’s museum in loan of over 130 treasures, many of which the world, where dinosaurs roam the earth, have never visited the United States. Underwriting for the 2009 AASLH three children become twentieth-century The exhibition features fi fty objects from and AIM Annual Meeting tours heroes, and modern day Egypt is a step the tomb of Tutankhamun including the and evening events provided by: away. Take time to dine and see the forty- gold sandals that adorned the mummy’s three-foot-tall tower of glass by Dale Chihuly. feet and a beautifully adorned canopic jar that mummifi ed his internal organs. Eighty (Note: The Tutankhamun: The Golden artifacts from signifi cant rulers of ancient King and the Great Pharaohs exhibit is not Egypt are also featured. included in this event. Tickets are available on August 29, see the Saturday events for Organized by National Geographic, Arts and details.) Exhibitions International and AEG Exhibitions, with cooperation from the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities. Northern Trust is the presenting sponsor of the tour and American Airlines is the offi cial airline.

12 Making History a 21st-Century Enterprise PREMEETING WORKSHOPS & EVENTS These events are not included in the annual meeting registration fee and require preregistration. See the registration form for details.

Wire, Wood, Words, and Hands-On History Interactives Your Objects » Wednesday, August 26 » Wednesday, August 26 » 8:30 am – 12:00 pm » 8:30 am – 5:00 pm » Cost $45 » Cost $75 Put the fun back into history! Start with a Enjoy a hands-on experience that focuses on quick primer on creating low-tech, hands-on how to do things that every small museum activities for visitors of all ages. Take cues needs to do, but usually does not have the from what children’s museums are doing facilities, staff, expertise, or money to do. and learn how to apply play and learning Demonstrated skills are wire mounts using techniques to specifi c events, objects, stellaloy, framing, mat cutting, and creating a and people. Get a little messy with glue, simple professional-looking label. paper, and scissors as you prototype your Chair: Juan S. Alvarez, Curator of Exhibits, designs. This workshop will take place at Michigan State University Museum, East The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. Lansing, MI Attendees are responsible for their own transportation. Off the Walls: Online Exhibits Finding the Right Balance: from the Ground Up Chair: Vi Tran, Director of Design, Colorado A Workshop on Conceptual Historical Society, Denver, CO » Wednesday, August 26 Planning » 8:30 am – 5:00 pm » Wednesday, August 26 CEO Forum » Cost $75 » 8:30 am – 12:00 pm Social Entrepreneurship: Learn the basics of planning an online » Cost $45 Leading through Crisis and exhibit incorporating digital content, In this workshop, participants will learn how Embracing Change successful tips for Web writing, examine » Wednesday, August 26 to apply the conceptual planning process successful online exhibit models, and to real world situations: planning a new » 8:30 am – 5:00 pm evaluation techniques. A combination of museum, renovating an existing museum, » Cost $150 or $220 for two from the presentations, hands-on exercises, and or refocusing a museum for changing same organization small group work will allow participants to times. Participants will learn to make sound By invitation only: This year’s CEO Forum keep exhibit content rich, meaningful, and decisions about audiences, programs, will examine entrepreneurial concepts to interactive for online visitors. facilities, and budgets that lead to a advance historical organizations and the Chair: Leigh Grinstead, Digital Initiatives sustainable future. fi eld of state and local history. CEOs and Consultant, CDP@BCR, Aurora, CO Chair: Guy Hermann, Museum Master Senior Executives will discuss the nature Practical Methods Towards Planner, Museum Insights, LLC, Mystic, CT of social entrepreneurship featuring Dave Storage Models: How to Sternberg of The Center on Philanthropy. Stabilize Museum Collections After lunch, CEOs and Senior Executives will break into separate groups for facilitated » Wednesday, August 26 discussion on entrepreneurial concepts » 8:30 am – 5:00 pm to advance historical organizations and » Cost $75 the profession as a whole. The day ends This workshop will provide an overview of with how to change the way you plan, collections care for the small museum and implement, and respond to external forces offer an approach to a storage model for that impact your ability to achieve your collections. Hands-on practical sessions are mission. paper-specifi c and include humidifi cation, Chair: Norman O. Burns, II, Executive surface cleaning, encapsulation, and Director, Maymont Foundation, stabilizing two-and three-dimensional Richmond, VA originals by creating housings. Chair: Ramona Duncan-Huse, Senior Director, Conservation, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN 13 PREMEETING WORKSHOPS & EVENTS These events are not included in the annual meeting registration fee and require preregistration. See the registration form for details.

Field Services Alliance Meeting Digital Encyclopedia: Hands- Opening Doors to Empowering » Wednesday, August 26 On Workshop Front Line Staff » 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm » Wednesday, August 26 » Wednesday, August 26 » Cost Free » 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm » 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm » » Members and interested colleagues of Cost $45 Cost $45 FSA will gather to begin consideration of This workshop will provide tangible In this highly participatory workshop, you will measuring fi eld services outcomes and experiences with an online encyclopedia analyze and practice effective interpretive fi nalizing the draft outline of a Field Services showing you how they effectively promote techniques for museums of all sizes. Conner Manual. Also, FSA will be updating on historical content on the Web. Prairie staff will show clips of fi rst- and third- a variety of issues facing local grassroots Chair: Randal Rust, President, R. Squared person interpretation for discussion, lead historical organizations. Visit Communications, Dublin, OH exercises targeting particular interpretive www.aaslh.org/FSA for more information. skills, and end by discussing ways to apply these principles to your site. Chair: Aili McGill, Experience Manager for Prairietown, Conner Prairie, Fishers, IN NEW! Sustainability is More Accessible Th an Ever Before! AASLH thanks The 1772 Foundation for sponsoring a track at the Annual Meeting specifi cally for the sustainability of history organizations. Look for this symbol throughout the Annual Meeting guide and program descriptions for details. Need More Information About the Annual Meeting? Visit www.aaslh.org/anmeeting

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14 Making History a 21st-Century Enterprise CONCURRENT SESSIONS & PROGRAM Thursday, August 27

7:00 am - 8:00 am Educators and Interpreters Breakfast Directors Breakfast » Preregistration Required » Preregistration Required » Cost $25 » Cost $25 Begin the annual meeting at this engaging breakfast where you will Directors and CEOs of organizations of all sizes are invited to break- network with peers in the fi eld of education and interpretation. You fast for networking and stimulating discussions. You’ll meet others will get a quick overview of the different education/interpretation who face the same issues you do on the job every day and learn sessions at the 2009 meeting and learn about the work of the about AASLH initiatives that will benefi t your organization. AASLH Educators and Interpreters committee. The featured speaker Chair: David Donath, Director, Billings Farm and Museum, is David Allison from Conner Prairie. He will talk about how Woodstock, VT he helped to create the nationally recognized Opening Doors approach for use by his institution to engage visitors in a personal and meaningful way. (An article about this program appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of History News.) Table-based discussion on this topic will follow the presentation. Chair: Elizabeth R. Osborn, Assistant to the Chief Justice for Court History and Public Education, Indiana Supreme Court 8:15 am – 9:45 am Concurrent Sessions Change the Way Your Ethics in Tough Times Help Has Arrived: AASLH’s It’s Not Just a Museum: Institution Looks at Disaster The AASLH Ethics Committee wants New Standards Program Surviving within a Larger to listen to your thoughts on ethical Planning Is your history organization looking Organization issues in our fi eld. Let’s discuss issues for guidance to improve policies, Instead of a one-time project, arising from the economic crisis, or This roundtable focuses on the disaster preparedness can become procedures, and programs? challenges that museums face when concerns that have been with us Learn more about AASLH’s new an institutional mindset. This session for awhile. Your ideas will guide they do not have total control of is based on the disaster planning Standards Program for history the facilities in which they reside. development of future Ethics Position organizations. Speakers will present projects at Minnetrista in Muncie, Papers. Presenters will guide the discussion IN. You will explore ways to build examples of the program’s self- by presenting the challenges they Chair: Kathleen Mullins, Edsel an effective team, identify community assessment questions, performance face and how they manage them. partnerships, develop a workable and Eleanor Ford House, Grosse indicators, and projects that can You are encouraged to discuss plan, and keep the plan fresh in Pointe Shores, MI help organizations move closer your situation and the group will people’s minds. to achieving national museum brainstorm solutions. Chair: Diane Barts, Registrar, standards. Chair: Kurt Senn, Director, Missouri Minnetrista, Muncie, IN Chair: Cherie Cook, Senior Program State Museum, Jefferson City, MO Manager, AASLH, Jefferson City, MO

15 CONCURRENT SESSIONS & PROGRAM Thursday, August 27

8:15 am – 9:45 am Concurrent Sessions Connecting to Collections: State Measuring Success at Perspectives on Rehousing Small Museum Town Hall By State Historic Sites Collections Meeting: Federal Formula This session focuses on the lasting The Kykuit Forum recognized that American museums face an Grants resources of the IMLS’ major initiative organizations must develop new incredibly diverse array of Small museum administrators, this is on conservation, Connecting to measures, beyond attendance, challenges to preserve and secure for you! Find out how this national Collections: A Call to Action. to assess the quality of visitor the collections they uphold to movement for increased funding Discover how this initiative can be engagement at historic sites. This protect. Panelists will discuss for museums through IMLS could used by smaller institutions to have a session will explore some alternative how their institution underwent benefi t your museum. Members of lasting impact on collections care in metrics and measurable objectives a collection rehousing project to the Federal Formula Grant Coalition the 21st century. that have been adopted and protect their holdings against natural will share the latest information Chair: Nancy Rogers, Senior Project discuss if they are useful to other disasters, remove items from unstable about advocacy efforts and answer Coordinator, Strategic Partnerships, organizations. environments, reenvision permanent your questions about this exciting Institute of Museum and Library Chair: Max van Balgooy, Director exhibits, or as part of routine initiative. Services, Washington, DC of Interpretation and Education, collection management. Chair: Carol Harsh, Co-Director, National Trust for Historic Chair: Nicholas Hoffman, Director Museum on Main Street, Preservation, Washington, DC and Curator, Elkhart County Smithsonian Institution, SITES, Historical Museum, Bristol, IN Washington, DC Technology, Web 2.0, and Historic Sites: Transforming Collaboration: Teaching Volunteers and Our Institutions: Crafting Strategies for Engagement American History Projects a Better Partnership Technology and social networking offer tools Teaching American History grants encourage By building strong volunteer programs, you with tremendous promise, but how are historic organizational partnerships; for some increase the number of people available to sites making use of those tools? Hear how participants, these transformative collaborations accomplish your work, build a network of three sites have developed strategies to engage become entrepreneurial opportunities to supporters, market your organization, and better new audiences and expand their interpretation. connect history and their community in the establish yourself in your communities. Explore Attendees will be encouraged to share ideas that 21st century. Representatives from fi ve grants these and other issues related to volunteer have (or have not) worked at their site. share how TAH projects stimulate sustainable programs, e.g. growing quickly, keeping up Chair: Craig Tuminaro, Director of Museum programming, engage new audiences, with technology, and adapting to changing Interpretation, Drayton Hall, Charleston, SC and create exciting possibilities for future demographics. educational endeavors. Chair: Rebecca Martin, Volunteer and Tour Chair: Kendra Clauser, Project Coordinator— Coordinator, National Archives and Records Bringing History to Life, TAH-Martinsville, Administration, Washington, DC Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN

Photos courtesy of the Indiana Historical Society Visit these sites when you sign-up for the Discovering Indy tour on Thursday, August 27. (See page 11 for details.) From left to right: Madame Walker Theatre Center, Crown Hill Cemetery, and Scottish Rite Cathedral.

16 Making History a 21st-Century Enterprise 9:45 am - 10:45 am Morning Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall 10:45 am - 12:15 pm Keynote Harold Holzer 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Luncheons Corporate History Luncheon Small Museums Luncheon » Preregistration Required, Cost $30 » Preregistration Required, Cost $30 Building an internal brain trust and establishing deeper connections Marsha L. Semmel, Deputy Director for Museums and Director for Strategic within the organization is the key for future corporate history museums Partnerships, will discuss the role of small museums as valued and vital and archives. Attend this luncheon to meet others involved in corporate community assets in these economically stressful times. What are some archives and museums. You’ll hear from James Burnes, Vice President of special resources and strengths of these museums? In addition to sharing Development and Strategy for MediaSauce, a national interactive agency examples from IMLS-funded projects, she will discuss current opportunities for focusing on Internet strategy and social media. He’ll discuss technology that IMLS support. builds connections, bridges gaps, and builds more effective knowledge Chair: Stacy Klingler, Assistant Director, Local History Services, Indiana centers for your organization. Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN Chair: Unette Lemke, Global Company Heritage, Racine, WI

1:45 am – 3:15 am Concurrent Sessions Advocacy for History Building Community Through Field Services Alliance Presents Finding Your Place in History: Organizations History, Part I Museum Tips The National Historical Discover the efforts by AASLH and This double session is a case study The Field Services Alliance will Landmark Program AAM to advocate for increased of Discovering A-Y-P, a public present tips on best practices Does your historic site have national funding for history organizations. history program that marked the in museums. There will be signifi cance? Would you qualify In the new economy, it’s more centennial of Seattle’s fi rst world’s presentations on the following four as a National Historic Landmark? important than ever that you do your fair through a series of community topics: free things you can do to Can a national designation impact part to help. Attend this session to partnerships and workshops. A make your historical organization your long-range preservation plan? learn how. panel will evaluate the program and better, caring for photographs in Can this designation impact your Chair: Terry Davis, President and its outcomes, and then assist you your collections, getting membership marketing plan? Yes it can! CEO, AASLH, Nashville, TN in planning your own collaborative right, and how to build fast and easy Chair: Virginia Terpening, Executive public history project. storage supports. Director, Indiana Medical History Chair: Helen Divjak, Public Chair: Scott Carrlee, Curator of Museum, Indianapolis, IN Programs Manager, Museum of Museum Services, Alaska State History and Industry, Seattle, WA Museums, Juneau, AK Incorporating Web 2.0 Is Less More? Evaluating Membership+Annual Four Decades of Innovation: Technologies with a Staff Management Systems at Giving+Capital Campaign Engagement, Excellence, and of One Historic Sites = Total Fundraising, All Entrepreneurship at Conner This session will address the many Environmental management projects the Time Prairie issues small museums face when in four National Trust historic sites Capital campaigns don’t begin Prairietown... Follow the North Star it comes to incorporating new have demonstrated the inherent when you are about to build or ... Opening Doors. Now, Conner technology into their Web presence. confl icts of installing HVAC systems renovate. Even small museums can Prairie is embarking on a new Explore easy to implement, often in precious buildings not built to lay the groundwork for support experience with its 1859 Balloon free, solutions such as Facebook, function as museums. You will review through membership, annual giving, Voyage. Putting your audience at FlickR, Blogs, Podcasts, YouTube, the various problems and discuss the and sponsorships. Total fundraising the center, borrowing from other and more to help reach new different innovative suggestions for principles presented, as well as case disciplines, and using advisors and audiences and increase visitor rethinking our approach to climate studies and action steps you should scholars can strategically position participation. management systems at each site. take now to mount a successful future your museum for success. Find out Chair: Michael Frohlich, Multimedia Chair: Barbara Campangna, FAIA, capital campaign. how. Developer/Web Manager, State LEED AP, Graham Gund Architect of Chair: Thomas Costello, Principal, Chair: Ellen Rosenthal, President and Historical Society of North Dakota, the National Trust, National Trust for Cultural Resources Management CEO, Conner Prairie, Fishers, IN Bismarck, ND Historic Preservation, Group, Lansdowne, VA Washington, DC Surviving Corporate Mergers and The Value of Live Interpretation What Now? How to Get the Most Out of Acquisitions: What are the Roles of High quality visitor experiences lead visitors Your Audience Research Findings to make connections, create meanings, and Corporate Museums and Archives? Without visitors, museums and historic sites would build long-lasting memories. Live interpretation cease to exist. Thus, to sustain our institutions, we When corporations merge or divest it can bring has been creating those experiences with challenges, changes, and opportunities for must improve our understanding of visitors. We visitors for many years and continues to do so. often try to do that through audience research. collections, archives, and museums—public and This session will explore research, opinions, private. This session will identify those challenges But what happens after we ask our questions and and ideas that support the value of live read the offi cial report? How do museums and and discuss ways to work toward a smooth interpretation. transition. historic sites actually use fi ndings from audience Chair: Dale Jones, Principal, Making History research to inform and refi ne practice? This session Chair: Megan Schaack, Museum Manager/ Connections, Glenwood, MD Curator, Wells Fargo, Minneapolis, MN will investigate the question, What happens after audience research? Chair: Dean Krimmel, MHT Project Director (consulting), Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards, Baltimore, MD 17 CONCURRENT SESSIONS & PROGRAM Thursday, August 27

3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Afternoon Refreshment Break and Educators Showcase in Exhibit Hall 4:15 pm - 5:45 pm Concurrent Sessions The AASLH Mentor Committee: Beyond Pushing Buttons: Using Building Community Through A Conversation About Small How Mentoring Can Best Serve Technology to Connect with History, Part 2 Museums: Resources for the Field New Audiences This double session is a case study Funding, Collections Care, and of Discovering A-Y-P, a public history AASLH envisions a Mentor Program “Generation Net,” neighborhood More focusing on relationships of personal residents, and jogger, what program that marked the centennial of Seattle’s fi rst world’s fair through a For the last fi ve years, the museum and professional benefi t. Such a connects them? They are part fi eld has discussed what is a small program looks to connect people of the target audiences for three series of community partnerships and workshops. A panel will evaluate museum, how many are there, and committed to the shared goals of projects that use Web 2.0 and what are their needs? Discover growth, innovation, and excellence. mobile audio technology to connect the program and its outcomes, and then assist you in planning your own national resources for small museums Join representatives of the AASLH new audiences with history. After for funding, collections care, and Mentor Committee in a roundtable viewing, listening to, and discussing collaborative public history project. Chair: Helen Divjak, Public Programs more, then share the resources discussion and help enhance this these innovative projects, we’ll you’ve found most (and least) helpful important program’s value and talk with you about technology’s Manager, Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, WA during the roundtable. impact. potential for reaching new Chair: Stacy Klingler, Assistant Chair: Scott Stroh, III, Independent audiences with your story. Director, Local History Services, Museum Professional, Manteo, NC Co-chairs: Laura Koloski, Senior Indiana Historical Society, Program Specialist, Heritage Indianapolis, IN Philadelphia Program, Philadelphia, PA, and Bill Adair, Director, Heritage Philadelphia Program, Philadelphia, PA

Discovering Your Hidden Documenting the Global War Forum for Mid-Career and Mid- Historic Sites Providing Life Audience on Terror Level Professionals and Leadership in Their Creating a new program is relatively The challenges of writing military This roundtable will provide an Communities easy. Developing the ones that history during wartime within the opportunity for mid-career and Presenters will accent existing models will captivate a new audience confi nes of new technology are mid-level professionals to discuss for other professionals, tailored to and promote return visitation is the enormous. Learn how National issues of concern including career be applicable to other settings. Key real challenge. This session will Guard historians and the Center development, the job market, issues addressed include: Drayton review simple, cost-effective ways for Military History are adapting whether or not to climb the Hall, preservation of an historic to combine traditional media with their methodology to new digital leadership ladder, and work/life viewshed and scenic environs; online technologies like Survey parameters in an effort to preserve balance. Villa Finale, choosing community Monkey, blogs, Facebook, FlickR, the Global War on Terror historical Chair: Trina Nelson Thomas, Senior engagement rather than velvet rope and Twitter to evaluate your current record. Director, Public Programs, Indiana tours from the planning stages; audience and tap into hidden ones Chair: Steve Stearns, Historian, Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN Stenton, collaborative program that may be right beyond your National Guard Bureau, Offi ce of development for education in poor doorstep. Historical Services, Arlington, VA communities; Brucemore, leadership Chair: Nancy Moses, Principal, among local cultural organizations Nancy Moses Planning + including during emergencies. Development, Philadelphia, PA Chair: David Young, Executive Director, Cliveden, Philadelphia, PA

“I leave the annual meeting with a renewed sense of leadership, new ideas, and strategies to discuss with my staff. I recommend this event to anyone who wants to better understand the value of history and how to share it others.”

Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko CEO Abbe Museum

18 Making History a 21st-Century Enterprise 4:15 pm - 5:45 pm Concurrent Sessions Presidential Libraries and Museums: TeachingHistory.org: Connecting Visitors’ Voices Roundtable Mixing Scholarship with Showmanship Museums with K-12 Educators Are you interested in learning more about the visitor This session will examine the presidential This session will demonstrate ways in which experience at your museum or site? Join members libraries and museums of Lincoln, Truman, the National History Education Clearinghouse of the AASLH affi nity group, Visitors’ Voices, for a Eisenhower, and Kennedy as centers for ideas can improve school programming at museums roundtable discussion about audience research and and national inspiration. Issues include program and historic sites. In addition, the session evaluation and fi nd out how the group can be a initiatives, digital and onsite exhibits, and uses will allow time to discuss ways in which the helpful resource as you seek new ways to collect of architectural space. Presenters will evaluate NHEC can better represent museum education. feedback from visitors. the extent to which these institutions engage and Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Chair: Dale Jones, Principal, Making History shape public memory. the NHEC at teachinghistory.org is the central Connections, Glenwood, MD Chair: Dr. Lorraine Madway, Curator of Special place online for K-12 American history teachers Collections and University Archivist, Wichita State looking for high-quality resources. University Libraries, Wichita, KS Chair: Teresa DeFlitch, Project Manager, National History Education Clearinghouse, Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

5:45 pm - 6:30 pm. Reception: Seminar for Historical Administration » Preregistration Required » Cost Free The newly formed SHA Alumni affi nity group invites you to join SHA alumni and faculty at the annual SHA reception celebrating the upcoming 50th SHA in 2009. Meet the classes of 2008 and 2009 and connect with alumni and faculty through the years. If you’re interested in learning more about the SHA program, this is the place for you! Reception: Historical Administration Program Association (Eastern Illinois University) » Preregistration Required » Cost Free The reception is open to friends, alumni, and interested attendees who would like to hear about the latest news from the HA program. 5:45 pm - 7:00 pm Reception: Association of Indiana Museums Reception » Preregistration Required » Cost $25 AIM is the only statewide advocate for Indiana museums. This reception welcomes everyone to Indiana and serves to launch AIM’s collections affi nity group. Meet your Indiana colleagues and attend a brief annual meeting before beginning your evening in Indianapolis. Sponsored by SurveyAmerica and the TouchSource Group.

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19 CONCURRENT SESSIONS & PROGRAM Friday, August 28

7:00 am - 8:30 am Military History/Presidential Sites Joint Breakfast » Preregistration Required » Cost $25 Join the Military History Affi nity Group and the Presidential Sites Affi nity Group for a joint breakfast at the President Benjamin Harrison Home. Participants will enjoy a unique breakfast with General Harrison as he discusses his experiences in the Civil War. Participants can also view a special exhibit on Presi- dent Harrison’s grandfather, War of 1812 general and ninth President of the United States, William Henry Harrison. Limited to 50 people. Chairs: Presidential Sites Affi nity Group Chair: Frank Milligan, President Lincoln’s Cottage, Washington, DC Military History Affi nity Group Chair: Myers Brown, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN Breakfast Host Chair: Phyllis Geeslin, Benjamin Harrison Home, Indianapolis, IN 8:15 am - 9:45 am Concurrent Sessions Are They Being Served? CT Everything Old is New Food for Thought Getting It Done: Achieving and Cultural Consumer Survey Again: Fresh Approaches to This session will focus on the Sustaining Community Change Are your visitors happy with their importance of food as both an Interpretation and Exhibition enticement and a vehicle for Through Diverse Partnerships museum experiences? What do they Indianapolis leaders from the do in their leisure time? Why do of Special Collections and interactive learning. It will also explore the opportunity for sites business, philanthropic, cultural, they fi nancially support museums? Archives and political sectors will explore The Connecticut Humanities Council, Library, museum, and historical exhibiting agriculture and historic foodways to reconnect visitors the entrepreneurial spirit and civic Connecticut Landmarks, and society staff can develop meaningful partnerships that turned the city from Reach Advisors surveyed 4,500 constituent connections through with the origins of their food and related issues impacting the global “India-No-Place” into a vital, thriving Connecticut cultural consumers. From the use of special collections and urban center. Panelists will look at community engagement to restroom archives. Through increased access, economy. Chair: Erik Holland, Interpretive key challenges and turning points maintenance to guided tours, fi nd user-centered design, and innovative over a twenty-year period and the out what our visitors really want interpretation and exhibitions, new Program Specialist, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN very real issue of sustainability being through survey results applicable to approaches to special collections faced today. history museums nationwide. encourage collaboration and Chair: John Herbst, President and Chair: Scott Wands, Heritage active engagement with visitors and CEO, Indiana Historical Society, Resource Center and Field Services broaden possibilities for institutions Indianapolis, IN Director, Connecticut Humanities as cultural entrepreneurs. Council, Middletown, CT Chair: Trina Nelson Thomas, Senior Director, Public Programs, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN

IMLS Opportunities That Managing Your Museum No Safe Haven: Revisioning The Object and Not-Object: Support 21st-Century through Hard Times the Underground Railroad in Exploring Differences in Enterprise The museum fi eld is facing the Indiana Viewing IMLS offers interactive roundtables toughest period in forty years and This panel session will present an How can you reposition artifacts with IMLS grant and research a watershed for many institutions. It excerpt from the AASLH Award of and exhibits to foster personal staff, grantees, and reviewers. is critical that directors and senior Merit winning multimedia Program, connections with visitors? What Join a dynamic presentation staff rethink their organization, Ordinary People, Extraordinary happens when visitors engage with and conversation about grant operation, and goals creatively Courage: Men and Women of the digital representations of artifacts opportunities, special initiatives and yet with discipline. This session Underground Railroad, as the focus through FlickR, YouTube, Wikipedia, new research within the museum offers strategies and tools that for a broader discussion of the role and Facebook? You’ll discuss how fi eld. The format will allow you to work successfully in downturns and of public memory in presenting these new media tools inspire visitors move from topic to topic at anytime restructuring museums. African American history. to engage directly with objects and during the session. Chair: Thomas M. Costello, Chair: Sally Newkirk, Director, express this interaction as social Chair: Mary Estelle Kennelly, Principal, Cultural Resources Carnegie Center for Art and History, experiences. Associate Deputy Director for management Group, New Albany, IN Chair: Janna Bennett, Curator, The Museums, Institute for Museum and Lansdowne, VA Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, Library Services, Washington, DC Indianapolis, IN

20 Making History a 21st-Century Enterprise 8:15 am - 9:45 am Concurrent Sessions Pruning the Sick, Dying, and Dead: Site Integrity and the Entrepreneurial Touch and Know: Interactive Technology, Conscientious Efforts to Remove What No Spirit: Integrating Ventures with Vision Exhibits, and Education Longer Fits How do you maintain the integrity of your Interactive technology is a way of engaging A good business strengthens core offerings and historic gardens from the pressure of weddings, visitors and bringing in new audiences, goals removes what doesn’t sell. Ethically minded educational tours, workshops, events, and all institutions share. Representatives from four museums must also have mechanisms to identify more? Learn from Minnetrista staff what it takes institutions determine what to include in a kiosk what must improve and what must go, from to be proactive and not reactive when it comes display, the benefi ts and limitations of touch- artifacts to entire sites. In this session, speakers to sharing your gardens and/or grounds with a screen technology, and how to incorporate new will discuss recent efforts to create and follow this diverse audience. technology into your institution while maintaining business plan. Chair: Cassie Banning, Horticulture Manager, your budget. Chair: Link Ludington, Architectural Historian, Minnetrista, Muncie, IN Chair: Doria Lynch, Deputy Clerk and Outreach Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites, Coordinator, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Madison, IN Indiana, Indianapolis, IN

10:45 am - 12:00 pm Meeting of the Membership 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm Luncheons Networking and Membership Luncheon Court and Legal History Luncheon Open to all, this is your chance to check out the latest and greatest products » Preregistration Required available while grabbing a complimentary lunch. Lots of PRIZES will also be » Cost $30 given away! This affi nity group is comprised of individuals working in state legal history societies, circuit court libraries and the U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society. The featured speakers at this year’s luncheon will discuss how Randolph County’s (Indiana) historic courthouse was saved from demolition by grassroots efforts, including a calendar featuring the women of a local bridge club with discreetly placed replicas of the building! Not only was the building saved, but as a result of the heightened awareness regarding the vulnerability of these historic structures, the Indiana General Assembly enacted legislation creating a fund to help preserve Indiana’s local courthouses. Speakers include Randall T. Shepard (Chief Justice of Indiana), Wayne Goodman (Director, Eastern Regional Offi ce, Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana), and Larry Francer (Co-Executive Producer of the award-winning documentary fi lm, Courthouse Girls of Farmland.) Chair: Elizabeth R. Osborn, Assistant to the Chief Justice for Court History and Public Education, Indiana Supreme Court 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Plenary Speaker Mike Wallace 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Afternoon Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall

“This well-constructed program provided our staff with great information and contacts for planning for sustainability. I heartily recommend the AASLH Annual Meeting to anyone who wants to strengthen his or her museum and grow as a history professional.”

D. Stephen Elliott President New York State Historical Association and The Farmers’ Museum

21 CONCURRENT SESSIONS & PROGRAM Friday, August 28

4:15 pm - 5:45 pm Concurrent Sessions How Performance How Sustainable Is Your Look Who’s 50: The Seminar Making History with Management Can Help You Historic House Museum? for Historical Administration NEH Support Determine What’s Driving the For many historic house museums, Looks Toward the Next Come learn about support available just keeping the doors open is from NEH for museums and Visitor Experience a challenge in today’s tough 50 Years historical organizations, as well What’s driving the visitor experience economy. Building on the For fi fty years, SHA has been as special initiatives and funding at your museum? AASLH’s 2008 Technical Leafl et, How the longest running professional trends. Emphasis will be on smaller Performance Management program Sustainable is Your Historic House development seminar in the country, institutions. Presenters include NEH statistically identifi es key drivers that Museum?, The AASLH Historic employing case studies, workshops, program offi cers and the curator for predict how a high percentage of House Committee assembles forums, and fi eld trips to present NEH On the Road. visitors will rate their experience. a panel to discuss their historic and engage the best practices Chair: Andrea Anderson, Senior Hear the fi ve key drivers identifi ed houses’ successes and dissect their and ideas of history organization Program Offi cer, Offi ce of most often for more than eighty-fi ve failures as related to the eleven leadership and management. SHA Challenge Grants, National museums and how three of those characteristics of sustainable faculty and graduates will share their Endowment for the Humanities, institutions are using their key drivers historic house museums in the perspectives on the program and Washington, DC to focus on what truly matters to leafl et. Representing a wide variety graduates from several eras in the visitors. of historic house museum types, program’s history will share how it’s Chair: Cherie Cook, Senior Program sizes, and geographic locations, shaped his/her career. Manager, AASLH, Jefferson City, this session will relate real life Chair: Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, MO experiences to help us all. CEO, Abbe Museum, Chair: Kendra Dillard, Curator II Bar Harbor, ME and Manager, Governor’s Mansion State Historic Park, Sacramento, CA Massacre at Camp Grant: Museums and 21st-Century Museums as Incubators of Civic Mutual Goals Between Book discussion sponsored by Skills Engagement Curators, Conservators, the National Council on Public This session will introduce Museums, Museum representatives from and Educators Libraries, and 21st-Century Skills, across the country will discuss how History Back by popular demand! This a new, IMLS-funded project that innovative programs can inspire year’s mutual goals session NCPH Book Award winner Chip situates museums and libraries within visitors and community members to Colwell-Chathaphonh, discusses focuses on how artifacts are used a growing national conservation be individual and collective players for educational purposes. Three a forgotten massacre of Apache on the skills needed by people for positive social change. The Indians in 1871. His book creates a seasoned professionals, a curator of all ages to be productive and panel will also address how these of collections, a conservator, and multi-vocal narrative from documents engaged participants in today’s initiatives, when introduced through and oral traditions to explore the a museum educator, will bring their knowledgeable society. exciting technological features, own perspectives to debate key tangled nature of collective memory Chair: Marsha Semmel, Deputy engage societies in provocative and the politics of history. issues regarding using artifacts in Director for Museums, Director dialogues about pressing social museums. Chair: Dick Miller, National Council for Strategic Partnerships, Institute issues within, as well as beyond the on Public History, Morro Bay, CA Chair: Scott Carrlee, Curator, Alaska for Museum and Library Services, walls of the museum. State Museum, Juneau, AK Washington, DC Chair: Joshua Heim, Exhibits Developer, Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle, WA Outdoor History Museums: Succession Planning: A Terms of Endearment: Web Usability Lab Learning and Sharing Green Commitment, Not Just a Nomenclature 3.0 for Museum Usability is one of the easiest functions of a website to evaluate, Practices Process Cataloging yet often we do not take the time “Green” is an educational and a If our institutions hope to thrive, or AASLH and AltaMira Press to do it. This session will model a community engagement opportunity. even survive, in the future, we must will publish the third edition of very easy and fun way to evaluate First though, we have to learn green. redefi ne succession planning from Nomenclature at the end of 2009. usability for your institution’s website. After an orientation to the state of solely being a process to replace Representatives of the Nomenclature Chair: Tim Grove, Acting Chief of green in U.S. museums and sites, directors to a broader underlying Committee will talk about what Education, National Air and Space speakers from two open air museums commitment of training and shared people can expect from the new Museum, Washington, DC will detail their experiences going leadership. This session will explore book and the accompanying green in ways that any museum can how to do this through various electronic version and discuss how adopt and adapt. training approaches and team Nomenclature 3.0 refl ects new Chair: Elizabeth Wylie, Director of management. standards in cataloging and data Business Development, Finegold Chair: Karen Graham Wade, retrieval. Alexander and Associates, Inc., Director, Homestead Museum, City Chair: Ruby Rogers, Library Boston, MA of Industry, CA Director, Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, OH

22 Making History a 21st-Century Enterprise 5:45 pm - 6:30 pm Reception: National Council on Public History » Preregistration Required » Cost Free National Council on Public History Reception: Welcome to Indianapolis, NCPH’s institutional home for nearly twenty years on the campus of IUPUI. You are invited to mingle with fellow public historians, learn about new projects throughout the history profession, discuss current issues in the fi eld, and continue the partnership of AASLH and NCPH in promoting history to our larger public audiences. 6 :00 pm - 10:30 pm Evening Event: Journey Through Time » Preregistration Required » Cost $38 Enjoy an evening of presidential pastimes and child-inspired time travels. First share a light bite to eat and taste local wines at the 1875 Victorian home of Indiana’s only elected President, Benjamin Harrison. Then journey to The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, the largest children’s museum in the world, where dinosaurs roam the earth, three children become twentieth century heroes, and modern-day Egypt is a step away. Take time to dine and see the forty-three foot tall tower of glass by Dale Chihuly. (Note: Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs exhibit is not included in this event. Tickets are available on August 29, see the Saturday events for details.)

The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis: Photos courtesy of the The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis

“There’s so much to be said about the annual meeting… it provides an intimate networking experience and learning opportunities specifi c to my unique challenges as a history professional. The tours are a great way to really get to know the host city from a historical and local perspective. I recommend to anyone working within a history organization to attend this annual meeting.”

Scott Stroh, III Independent Museum Professional Manteo, NC

23 CONCURRENT SESSIONS & PROGRAM Saturday, August 29

7:00 am - 8:00 am Historic House Museums Breakfast » Preregistration Required » Cost $25 Join historic house museum professionals for a lively discussion of current issues. Ellen Rosenthal, President and CEO, Conner Prairie, Fishers, Indiana, will speak about the museum’s quest for sustainability via a research-informed audience development strategy, the reshaping of programming and continual cost benefi t analysis. In the past six years, Conner Prairie, an outdoor history museum, has recast the guest’s experience, and created a “balanced scorecard” for judging programmatic success. The result has been increased visitation, membership, and balanced budgets. Chair: Kendra Dillard, Curator II and Manager, Governor’s Mansion State Historic Park, Sacramento, CA 8:15 am - 9:45 am Concurrent Sessions AASLH Awards: The Adults, History, and the Demonstrating the Value Digital Primary Resources: Final Frontier Real World of History Creating, Expanding, and Climb aboard the Starship Enterprise How does the real world connect to Join an open conversation about Sustaining New Audiences as you go where the best of the history organizations? In what ways how history-based institutions create best have gone before—the galaxy can adult audiences truly engage public value. This session will be for Museums and Archives of AASLH awards. This roundtable with history content? Explore how presented as a forum for examining Offering primary source material will show you how to put together audience expectations infl uence strategies for creating public value, on the Web helps engage a an award-winning nomination, program design, allow for new examples of projects underway, national and global audience. This and the positive results of national approaches to culture, and involve and current evaluations of successful panel will discuss the creation of recognition. theatrical techniques and practical projects. the Presidential Timeline website, Chair: Don Zuris, Head Curator, life skills in the development of Chair: Beverly Sheppard, Executive partnerships that sustain the project, Corpus Christi Museum of Science history experiences for adult Director, Institute for Learning usability studies, and tools that and History, Corpus Christi, TX and audiences. Innovation, Edgewater, MD encourage critical reasoning. Chair, AASLH Leadership in History Chair: Janet Rassweilen, Presenters will show how these Awards Committee Independent Museum Professional, efforts engage teachers, students, New York, NY and the public. Chair: Mary Knill, Director of Digital Strategies, Offi ce of Presidential Libraries, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD Excellence and Equity: Then, A Lynching in the Heartland: Managing History: A Online Encyclopedia Best Now, and Next Race and Memory in America 21st-Century Approach to Practices and Standards You will explore the changing public Book discussion sponsored by Project Management for Discover the initial results of AASLH dimension of museums through Internet Digital Encyclopedia the lens of AAM’s publication, the National Council on Public History Professionals Committee’s (IDEA) National Excellence in Equity: Education and History. In 2009, AASLH launches Endowment for the Humanities the Public Dimensions of Museums. Join the Awards Dinner keynoter, Project Management for History planning grant project researching The discussion explores how far we James H. Madison, for discussion Professionals, an IMLS-funded project Online Encyclopedia Best Practices have (or haven’t) come in addressing of his book about race, historical bringing “best practices” project and Standards. The project included and advocating for the museum’s memory, and a small Indiana town. management training to history a survey of existing projects, a role as an educational institution, Madison describes the terrible professionals. From stakeholder buy- summit in Nashville, TN, and a including the evolution of standards lynching as “the proverbial two-by- in to risk management to successful white paper to leverage IDEA and best practices and the rise of four to the head . . . a way to turn completions and end-project towards a concrete long-term technology use in our institutions. the reader’s attention to the lines evaluation, this session teaches organizational strategy. Chair: Greg Stevens, Assistant of color that run through twentieth- how to make project management Chair: Matthew Gibson, Director, Director, Professional Education, century America.” a successful 21st-century enterprise Digital Programs, Virginia Foundation American Association of Museums, Chair: Modupe Labode, Assistant applicable to projects across the for the Humanities, Washington, DC Professor History and Museum history fi eld. Charlottesville, VA Studies, Indiana University- Chair: Steve Hoskins, Project Purdue University Indianapolis, Manager, AASLH, Nashville, TN Indianapolis, IN

24 Making History a 21st-Century Enterprise 8:15 am - 9:45 am Concurrent Sessions Preserve America and Save Problems with Military Why Change Utopia? Working Together to Reach America’s Treasures: Grants for Donations With a community history of New Audiences: A Primer for Museums may receive military progressive idealism, and a change the 21st Century in its institutional mission, Historic Partnerships Preserve America is a national related donations from veterans or The Indiana State Museum with their descendants that include items New Harmony has developed a initiative and grant program that new interpretive plan and strategic Girl Scouts of Central Indiana, supports community efforts to that are illegal, controversial, or Indiana State University with are health or safety hazards. This plan to meet the future. Learn how preserve and share America’s story, these new plans will change the regional community partners, and and Save America’s Treasures session sponsored by the AASLH a coalition of state agencies and Military History Affi nity Group experience of the 21st century visitor is the largest grant program for to this National Historic Landmark non-profi t organizations in the bricks-and-mortar preservation in the will provide an overview of these Natural Heritage of Indiana Project problems, suggest solutions, and District town. country. Learn how these programs Chair: Connie Weinzapfel, Director, represent several collaboration complement each other to support address how current military war models for historical organizations to trophy policies will affect future Historic New Harmony, New local heritage stewardship and Harmony, IN successfully connect with a variety of encourage public appreciation for exhibits. audiences. history, historic preservation, heritage Chair: Gordon Blaker, Director/ Chair: Noraleen Young, tourism, and education. Hear Curator, U.S. Army Artillery Consulting Archivist, Past to Present, from project representatives on the Museum, Fort Sill, OK Indianapolis, IN contributions and benefi ts of these two national programs. Chair: Jay D. Vogt, Director and State Historic Preservation Offi cer, South Dakota State Historical Society, Pierre, SD 9:45 am - 10:30 am Break 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Concurrent Sessions 2010 Annual Meeting Breaking Through the Bricks Building a Worldwide Creating Lasting Value Through Roundtable and Mortar: Reaching Audience for Your Collection Commemoration of the Civil We want to hear from you! The New Audiences Through Have you ever wanted to reach a War 150 committee chairs for the 2010 wider audience without breaking Collaborative Techniques This session will explore how AASLH Annual Meeting in the budget? Now there are easy- commemorative events can Oklahoma City, OK, September This session is for individuals to-use and affordable products and organizations considering generate long-term positive impacts. 22-25, want to hear your ideas that help you build an online Sesquicentennial coordinators for making the next meeting better. offering programs through collections presence from your interactive videoconferencing or from Kentucky, Ohio, and Virginia What did you like about the PastPerfect records and images. This will discuss new models for meeting? What should we have other collaborative and Web 2.0 session provides the steps to build technologies. By gaining a clearer commemorations that promise to done differently? Members of the a site, and three organizations will support services and programs that 2010 Annual Meeting program understanding of these technologies showcase their projects. and how others are utilizing continue long afterward. committee should attend. All meeting Chair: Jennifer Whitfi eld, Jennifer C. Chair: Rick Beard, Independent attendees are welcome. them for educational outreach, Whitfi eld, Client Services Director, participants can make informed Museum Professional, Chair: Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, Exton, PA New York, NY CEO, Abbe Museum, Bar decisions about what technologies Harbor, ME to pursue. Chair: Dave Pleiss, Assistant Director of Education, The President Benjamin Harrison Home, Indianapolis, IN History Museums and Virtual IDEA Roundtable Involving Youth in Historic More Than a Life Story: Worlds If you have an online encyclopedia Preservation Expanding Historic Site program, or plan on starting Hear panel members discuss how Federal agencies and preservation Interpretation to Attract New museums and others are using virtual one in the future, join IDEA for partners seek better strategies to worlds to enhance and expand their conversation, networking, and lots involve youth in historic preservation Audiences Biography is the obvious story presence. The focus will be on using of ideas. The program will include activities to instill a preservation ethic an update on activities of the at a historic site preserved to the low-cost Second Life platform to and appreciation for the importance commemorate its most famous explore new technologies, develop AASLH’s IDEA group, as well as of history education. This session reports on digital projects across the owner. Today’s visitors have an exhibit prototypes, collaborate on explains how to create grassroots array of interests. Learn how four country. exhibits, produce low-cost videos, service learning and community Presidential sites are attracting and network with others around the Chair: Douglas Barnett, Chief of service opportunities with historic diverse audiences by telling their world. Staff, Offi ce of the Vice Provost, preservation organizations to whole story, not just focusing on Chair: David V. Dexter, Executive University of Texas Libraries, accomplish these goals. political history and biography. Director, Neenah Historical Society, Austin, TX Chair: Jack Williams, Chair: Erick Montgomery, Executive Neenah, WI Expert Member and Chair, Director, Historic Augusta, Inc., Communications, Education, and Augusta, GA Outreach Committee, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, Washington, DC

25 CONCURRENT SESSIONS & PROGRAM Saturday, August 29

10:30 am - 12:00 pm Concurrent Sessions The Public History Field School: Virginia Thinking Outside the Museum Walls: Yes We Can: Undergraduate Students and City, Montana, a Case Study A New, and Possibly Old Approach to Service to Local History This session is a case study of the Virginia City, Local History Service-learning for undergraduates has the Montana, Public History Field Schools of 2007, For years, museums have been seen as the way potential to enhance students’ ability to grasp 2008, and 2010. The presenters will discuss to preserve and present history. Unfortunately, historical-thinking skills, instill a sense of value the fi eld school’s origins, methodology, subfi eld this led to an over-abundance of museums for local history, and generate awareness of activities, projects, outcomes, and its signifi cance competing for limited resources. There are the needs of institutions that preserve historical resources. This session will showcase two projects from the perspectives of on-site practitioners, numerous ways to connect to communities that don’t require museums. This session focuses to explore benefi ts and challenges of implementing academic coordinators, graduate student service-learning in partnership with local history participants, and observer. on alternative ways to think about presenting history. institutions. Chair: Dr. Robert K. Sutton, Chief Historian, Chair: Melissa Bingmann, Assistant Professor National Park Service, Washington, DC Chair: Laura Casey, State Coordinator, Museum Services Program, Texas Historical of History, Indiana University-Purdue University Commission, Austin, TX Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm Hand-On Labs Artifact Presentation at The Children’s Behind the Scenes at the Museums and PATHWAYS Museum of Indianapolis: Changing Archives » Preregistration Required Methods for Changing Times » Preregistration Required » Cost $25 » Preregistration Required » Cost $25 Utilizing the process laid out in PATHWAYS, a » Cost $25 Just a short walk away from the hotel, the guide written specifi cally for history professionals Indiana State Museum, the Eiteljorg Museum interested in creating successful public programs Visit and experience two of the newest permanent from the beginning to the end, this lab will provide exhibits at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, of the American Indians and Western Art, and the Indiana Historical Society will all share real examples for small historical organizations Power of Children: Making a Difference and Take to use best practices and their own collections Me There: Egypt, and engage in discussion with their state-of-the-art facilities with you during special behind the scenes tours. Learn how creatively when planning public programs. Each curators about how being a museum for children participant will receive a copy of PATHWAYS. affects how we collect, use, and care for artifacts. these museums and special collections archives acquire, research, manage, and exhibit their Chair: Erik Holland, Program Associate, Chair: Andrea Hughes, Educator/Curator of Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN American Collections, The Children’s Museum of collections. Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN Chair: Emily Rawlinson, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN Teaching Local History Using Museum Theatrical Performance in Historic Small Museums 2.0: Creating a Cost Theatre Buildings and Time-Effective Web Presence » Preregistration Required » Preregistration Required » Preregistration Required » Cost $25 » Cost $25 » Cost $25 This lab demonstrates and discusses the use of This session will explore the many benefi ts Small museums commonly face challenges to museum theatre to explore local topics. Session and challenges of performing various types of develop a presence on the Internet. Learn how to registrants will attend a live performance of “I’m theatre—progressive, salon, interpreting, and utilize inexpensive Web 2.0 technologies to create From Kokomo”, located in The Power of Children interactive—in historic buildings. A panel of interactive websites that feature weblogs, online Gallery at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. actors, resident playwright, and arts directors/ communities, photo-sharing websites, YouTube, Following the performance, registrants will coordinators will discuss their experiences and and Podcasts. With limited staff and Web design participate in a discussion focusing on goals, offer suggestions for establishing theatre at knowledge, small museums can produce a user- process, and visitor response. historic sites. friendly website that is cost effective and requires Chair: Rachael Mathews, Power of Children/Take Chair: Dr. Donna Marie Wing, Creative limited staff time for maintenance. Me There Supervisor, The Children’s Museum of Director, President Benjamin Harrison Home, Chair: Nicholas Hoffman, Director and Curator, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN Indianapolis, IN Elkhart County Historical Museum, Bristol, IN 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm Tour: Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs » Preregistration Required » Cost $25 Visit the blockbuster exhibit, Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm AASLH Awards Banquet » Preregistration Required » Cost $55 Join AASLH at the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown in honoring the 2009 Leadership in History award winners and hear James H. Madison.

26 Making History a 21st-Century Enterprise HOTEL & TRAVEL

Headquarter Hotel: Indianapolis Marriott Downtown Additional Hotel: Courtyard by Marriott at the Capitol The Indianapolis Marriott Downtown will be the host hotel. Visit 320 North Senate Avenue www.aaslh.org/anmeeting for more information. Be sure to mention Indianapolis, IN 46204 the AASLH group rate to receive the discounted singe/double rate Reservations: (317) 684-7733 of $135 plus tax. NOTE: the cut-off date is Friday, July 31. All Room Rate: $100 plus tax reservations must be accompanied by a fi rst night room deposit, or guaranteed with a major credit card or by American Association Roommate Needed? for State & Local History. Any reservation canceled within forty-eight If you are looking for a roommate for the Annual Meeting, please (48) hours of the arrival date, will be charged for one (1) night’s contact the AASLH offi ce. AASLH will maintain a rooming list for room and tax. All guests will be required to initial departure date interested attendees. upon check in. Any early departures will be subject to a $75.00 fee. Airport Transportation The Indianapolis International Airport is located fourteen miles Indianapolis Marriott Downtown from downtown. Carey Limo Share Ride provides service to 350 West Maryland Street downtown area hotels. To reserve transportation, call Indianapolis, IN 46225 (800) 888-4639 or visit www.careyindiana.com. Reservations: (317) 822-3500 Discounted Rate: $135 plus tax REGISTRATION INFORMATION All attendees, speakers, and exhibitors must register for the Annual Meeting. Registration, activities and sessions will take place at the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown. When you receive your registration materials onsite at the Annual Meeting, please consult the program update for the location of each activity you plan to attend.

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26 Workshop: Off the Walls: Online Exhibits from the Ground Up _____ x $75 ______Payment Workshop: Practical Methods Toward a Storage Model: _____ x $75 ______All registrations must be prepaid by check or credit card. Workshop: Wire, Wood, Words, and Your Objects _____ x $75 ______Please do not send registrations to AASLH offi cers, members, or meeting representatives. Send completed Registration Form Workshop: Finding the Right Balance _____ x $45 ______with payment by: Workshop: Hands-On History Interactives _____ x $45 ______CEO Forum ($150 or $225 for 2) _____ x $150/$225_ FAX Workshop: Digital Encyclopedia Hands-On Workshop _____ x $45 ______You may fax your registration form with credit card Workshop: Opening Doors to Empowering Front Line Staff _____ x $45 ______information to (615) 327-9013, 24 hours a day. If you fax Small-Town Indiana: Community Collaboration on Display _____ x $75 ______your registration, PLEASE DO NOT MAIL IT. Victorian Indianapolis _____ x $25 ______Corporate History Tour _____ x $25 ______MAIL Evening Event: Opening Night in the Historic Central Canal _____ x $38 ______AASLH, 1717 Church Street, Nashville, TN 37203-2991 Field Service Alliance Meeting _____ FREE ______Attn: Annual Meeting Registration THURSDAY, AUGUST 27 Educators and Interpreters Breakfast _____ x $25 ______ONLINE Directors Breakfast _____ x $25 ______Save even more money by registering at www.aaslh.org and Breakfast Stroll Around Monument Circle _____ x $15 ______receive an immediate confi rmation. Discovering Indy _____ x $25 ______Oldfi elds-Lilly House & Gardens: Indianapolis Museum of Art _____ x $25 ______CONFIRMATIONS Corporate History Luncheon _____ x $30 ______You will receive a registration confi rmation from AASLH Small Museums Luncheon _____ x $30 ______within seven days. If you do not, please contact AASLH at Reception: Association of Indiana Museums _____ x $25 ______(615) 320-3203. AASLH is not responsible for registrations that were mailed or faxed but never received. Reception: Eastern Illinois University _____ FREE ______

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29 THANKS TO THESE COMMITTEE MEMBERS! AASLH Expresses Gratitude to These Annual Meeting Committee Members!

John Herbst Donna Sack Program Committee Indiana Historical Society Naper Settlement D. Stephen Elliott Indianapolis, IN Naperville, IL Chair New York State Historical Association and The David Janssen Scott Stroh, III Farmers’ Museum Edsel and Eleanor Ford House Manteo, NC Cooperstown, NY Grosse Pointe Shores, MI Ken Turino Jody Blankenship Stacy Klingler Historic New England Ohio Historical Society Indiana Historical Society Boston, MA Columbus, OH Indianapolis, IN Jay Vogt Tricia Brooks Rita Lara South Dakota State Historical Society Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Oneida Nation Museum of Pierre, SD Williamsburg, VA Wisconsin Oneida, WI Scott Wands Myers Brown Connecticut Humanities Council Tennessee State Museum Paul Levengood Middletown, CT Nashville, TN Virginia Historical Society Richmond, VA Association of Indiana Bob Beatty Museums Representatives AASLH Russell Lewis Nashville, TN Chicago History Museum Chicago, IL Catherine Burkhart Carnegie Museum of Laura Casey Montgomery County Texas Historical Commission Garet Livermore Crawfordsville, IN Austin, TX New York State Historical Association Cooperstown, NY Sherrema Bower Lillian Choy Purdue University Homestead Museum Mindi Love Lafayette, IN City of Industry, CA Johnson County Museums Shawnee, KS Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko L. Teresa Church Abbe Museum Independent Scholar, Archivist, Consultant Michelle Moon Bar Harbor, ME Durham, NC Strawbery Banke Portsmouth, NH Sally Dickson Thomas Costello Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Cultural Resources Management Group Trina Nelson Thomas Western Art Lansdowne, VA Indiana Historical Society Indianapolis, IN Indianapolis, IN Vincent Gonzalez Tiffany Hatfi eld Command Museum Julia Rose Association of Indiana Museums Marine Corps Recruit Depot West Baton Rouge Museum Indianapolis, IN San Diego, CA Port Allen, LA

Bethany Hawkins AASLH Nashville, TN Betsy Jones Barry Dressel Gwendolen Raley Hamilton County Convention and Visitors Bureau Indiana State Museum Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana Carmel, IN Indianapolis, IN Indianapolis, IN

Craig Martin Joyce Duvall Emily Rawlinson Purdue University Galleries Conner Prairie Indiana Historical Society West Lafayette, IN Fishers, IN Indianapolis, IN

Rachael Mathews Lisa Farris Suzanne Stanis IUPUI-Museum Studies, Indianapolis, IN Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana Whitestown, IN Indianapolis, IN Phyllis Geeslin Laura Minzes President Benjamin Harrison Home Pam Stokes Indiana State Museum Indianapolis, IN Indianapolis Museum of Art and Oldfi elds-Lilly Indianapolis, IN House and Gardens Jeff Harris Indianapolis, IN Randy Ray Indiana Historical Society Northern Indiana Center for History Indianapolis, IN Maureen Surak South Bend, IN Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Tiffany Hatfi eld Western Art Karen Vincent Association of Indiana Museums Indianapolis, IN Minnetrista Indianapolis, IN Muncie, IN Ginny Terpening Anne Johansson Indiana Medical History Museum Indiana State Museum Indianapolis, IN Host Committee Indianapolis, IN John Herbst Jody Thomas Chair Amy Lamb Conner Prairie Indiana Historical Society Indiana Historical Society Fishers, IN Indianapolis, IN Indianapolis, IN John Vanausdall Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Melissa Bingmann Sarah Myers Indiana University-Purdue Western Art The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis Indianapolis, IN University Indianapolis Indianapolis, IN Indianapolis, IN Debbie Young Kelly Oles Bradley Brooks The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis Conner Prairie Indianapolis, IN Indianapolis Museum of Art and Oldfi elds-Lilly Fishers, IN House and Gardens Indianapolis, IN Jeff Patchen The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis Tina Connor Indianapolis, IN Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana Indianapolis, IN

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