When the Going Gets Tough: Confronting Difficult Subjects in Your Museum
Stepping into the world of provocative exhibition can be a scary experience if it is uncharted territory for you or your staff. The good news is that, if done correctly,...
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Take Your Site to the Students: Reaching Students Despite Field Trip Cuts
Written by Kate Smith Schools are struggling to make field trips to our local history sites for tours and programs due to reduced funding. Students in our areas are not...
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Six Lessons from Starbucks
Can museums learn about becoming extraordinary from a national coffee chain? On a hunt for best practices, the Dennison Railroad Depot Museum was convinced incorporating some of Starbucks’ philosophies into museum...
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Ohio Income Tax Refund + Ohio Historical Society = History Fund Grant Program
[Note: You are welcome and encouraged to “cut and paste” this article to reprint in your organization’s newsletter or website, now through April. OHS needs your help to promote contributions...
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2011 Outstanding Achievement Award Winners
Since 1960, the Ohio Local History Alliance has led the state in recognizing excellent projects, programs, and publications produced by Ohio’s historical societies, museums, and related organizations, as well as...
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Care & Handling of Objects Program
PRESENTER: Anne Hinebaugh, Intermuseum Conservation Association WHERE: Center for the History of Psychology, University of Akron, 73 College Street, Akron, Ohio 44325 WHEN: 2 PM to 4 PM, Thursday, February...
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Statehood Day 2013
Written by Todd Kleismit Ohio’s history advocates gather each year on or near the state’s birthday to help remind our state’s elected officials of the importance of Ohio history and...
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Cancelled: Save the Date for the Ohio Connecting to Collections Preservation Boot Camp
Attention: This event for August 20th has been cancelled. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the OHS’s Local History Office must with regret cancel the workshop Connecting Your Collections to Teachers and Students, which...
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Developing a Social Media Policy
Has social media become too easy? With the onslaught of social media websites like facebook, myspace, pinterest, twitter, and blogger, making your voice heard on the internet has become easier...
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History Fund Grants
2016 is a critical year for the History Fund’s tax refund check-off. The grants are funded by a tax refund check-off: when Ohioans file their state tax refunds, they have the...
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Our 2012 Keynote Speaker is Dr. Dan Shilling
This year, the Ohio Local History Alliance is excited to welcome Dr. Dan Shilling as our keynote speaker to the 2012 Annual Meeting and Conference! The author of Civic Tourism:...
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Advocacy, a little word that sometimes has a big, scary, but effective meaning
Do you believe that your historical society has stories that you can tell? Do you host a historical home filled with mementos of a bygone era that you can show...
