Hi everyone. I am Lillian Choy, Assistant Public Programs Manager at the Homestead Museum, located near Los Angeles. Like Ken, I had the opportunity to be on this year’s program committee, and am looking forward to an invigorating, thought-provoking time in Indianapolis. In thinking about the theme, “Making History a 21st Century Enterprise,” my hope [...]
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History goes hi-tech
Hi Everyone – I have written the History Bytes column in History News for the past five or six years. We started it to foster discussion in the history community about the Internet, to help encourage history folks to think critically about their websites and to highlight projects we think feature excellence. I’m thrilled that over the [...]
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Hello, I am Ken Turino, Manager of Commuity Engagement and Exhibitions at Historic New England. We are the largest regional heritage organization in America with 36 historic properites in 5 of the 6 New England States. We are not in Vermont yet but we will get there. I am located at our headquarters in Boston. I [...]
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Hello! My name is Amanda Wesselmann, and I am the Acting Director of the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum. The Museum consists of the personal study and artifacts relating General Lew Wallace, famous for his service in teh Civil War and authorship of Ben-Hur. As part of a small staff (2 FT, 2 PT), I [...]
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Our Annual Meeting is several weeks earlier this year than usual so things are ramping up very, very quickly.
We have another fine crew of bloggers scheduled to bring you regular posts about this year’s annual meeting. In addition, we are asking Twitterers (is that a word?) to use the hashtage #aaslh2009 in their Tweets so [...]




