Doing History/Doing Justice in the Small Museum
Historic home in Little Rock's Quapaw Quarter. (LRCVB) By Elizabeth Stewart, Renton History Museum & AASLH Small Museums Committee [...]
Need Help Deciding Which Sessions to Attend at the AASLH/AMA 2021 Annual Meeting?
By Bethany Hawkins, AASLH Chief of Operations If this is your first AASLH Annual Meeting or you just want some help [...]
Small Museums at the 2021 AASLH/AMA Annual Meeting
Cabin at Historic Arkansas Museum. (LRCVB) Are you at a small museum and wonder what a conference by a [...]
Planning for the Evolving COVID-19 Situation
By Jennifer Kilmer, Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma, WA As Director of the Washington State Historical Society, I have [...]
Feeling Overwhelmed by COVID-19 Preparations? Here Are 4 Steps You Can Take Today
By Erin Carlson Mast, CEO and Executive Director, President Lincoln’s Cottage, Washington, D.C. For the past two weeks, the [...]
Five Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in February
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in the last two months! The Standards and Excellence Program for History [...]
New Report Outlines National Planning for “America 250”
By John Marks, Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives, AASLH Earlier this month, the United States Semiquincentennial Commission published its report to [...]
Education Crash Course at Locust Grove Workshop
Last month, I attended my first AASLH workshop, "Focusing on Visitors: Public Programming and Exhibits at History Institutions." My attendance was made possible by receiving AASLH’s [...]
Personal Encounters with the Tough Stuff of History
In the last few years, our field has begun to engage more intentionally with the stories and lives of enslaved people -- in many cases, [...]
NEH Grant Opportunity for Community Archives
Are you working on a project that might be eligible for support through a Common Heritage grant? NEH’s “Common Heritage” program supports community digitization and [...]
Intern Spotlight: Folklorist Anne Rappaport
Our spring intern is wrapping up her time with us at AASLH! Anne Rappaport has been working on continuing education projects in our office for [...]
Fifth Annual Slave Dwelling Project Conference Call for Proposals
Cabin c. 1830, Sotterley Plantation, Hollywood, Maryland. The fifth annual Slave Dwelling Project conference will be held at Middle Tennessee State University in [...]
2017 Online Conference Recordings Now Available
The AASLH Online Conference is a yearly component of our Annual Meeting where six of our most popular sessions are reworked for a virtual audience [...]