I’ve arrived to beautiful weather in Rochester and traveled to downtown with a shuttle full of fellow AASLHers, most from the Washington DC region (Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Banneker-Douglas Museum, and the National Law Enforcement Museum) but also a woman from the King Ranch in Corpus Cristi, Texas.  She’s been traveling since 2:30 am [...]

Walking through the Nashville airport this morning, I was again struck by the one of the things that’s often cited as the importance of our work, history gives a sense of place. When I flew to Nashville in October 2006 to interview at AASLH, I was struck by how generic the airport was. It could [...]