In celebration of Black History Month, AASLH has compiled a list of resources from our Resource Center that we are sharing free for the month of February. The AASLH Resource Center is a collection of resources designed to help you do good history, and includes webinars, sessions, magazines, and Technical Leaflets on a wide variety of topics.
Resource Center Webinars and Conference Session Recordings:
- AASLH 2021 Opening Keynote with Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries
- AASLH Conversations: Black Lives Matter and (the American) Revolution
- Black Museums Matter: Agents of Change through Storytelling as Places of Healing
- Book Talk: Interpreting Slavery with Children and Teens
- Initiating Change: Museums, Community, and the Legacy of George Floyd
- Juneteenth: Celebrating Freedom at Historic Sites in the Age of Black Lives Matter
- #MeToo and #BlackLives Matter: Black Women Leaders Overcoming the Double Burden
- Memorializing African American History: Cemeteries, Monuments, and Markers
- Reckoning with Manisses: Doing Justice to Block Island’s Indigenous and African American Legacy
- Saying Their Names: Interpreting Slavery and Shifting the Narrative at 19th Century Historic Sites in Louisville, Kentucky
In addition to the above Resource Center materials, we also want to share posts from our blog and The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook highlighting Black history projects and DEAI issues.
Blog Posts and IHH Entries:
- African-American Female Athletes Before Integration: Ways To Chronicle Their History Before It’s Too Late
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Joy, Genealogy, and Justice: Connecting to History through Family Research
- Protecting the Legacy: Documenting Political Activity of African American Women in Tennessee Prior to 1930
- Think Creatively to Find Hidden History
- View from the Field: Equity-Oriented and Anti-Racist Curatorial Practice
- View from the Field: The Challenges to Being Inclusive in Museum Collections
Books:
Save 30% on the following titles from the AASLH Book Series. Use promo code 4S22BHM when you order on www.rowman.com to get the discount. Offer expires 2/28/22.
- Interpreting African American History and Culture at Museums and Historic Sites, edited by Max A. Van Balgooy, foreword By Lonnie G. Bunch III
- Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites by Julia Rose, foreword by Jonathan Holloway
- Interpreting Slavery at Museums and Historic Sites, edited by Kristin L. Gallas and James Dewolf Perry, foreword by Rex M. Ellis
- Interpreting Slavery with Children and Teens at Museums and Historic Sites by Kristin L. Gallas
