What “The Plague” Has to Tell Us
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis Albert Camus’s 1947 novel The Plague, set in Oran, Algeria, seems to anticipate our experience [...]
A Moment to Listen: Learning from Ancestral Legacies
By Katerin Collazo, Baylor University As a first-time attendee to an AASLH Annual Meeting, I was honored to be a recipient [...]
Inspiring Change Agents at #AASLH2020
By Kristen Michelle Walker, Kennesaw State University I am writing this from the land of the Tsalaguwetiyi (Cherokee, East) and would [...]
AASLH Announces 2019 Small Museums Scholarship Winners
Rocky statue outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Now in their thirteenth year, the Small Museums Affinity Community’s annual [...]
Ideas for Funding Your Organization’s Visitor Research
By Cherie Cook, Senior Program Manager, AASLH Visitor satisfaction is a “big deal,” writes Colleen Dilenschneider in her blog post [...]
Historic Preservation and The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook
“Women Barbers at Tule Lake Segregation Center,” Library of Congress. By Priya Chhaya, National Trust for Historic Preservation, [...]
Creating Inclusive Environments for History Practitioners: #AASLH2019 Conference Sessions
By Stacy Klingler, AASLH Diversity and Inclusion Committee Diversity and inclusion work in history organizations goes beyond inclusive history content [...]
Taking History into Our Own Hand(icraft)s: Interpreting a Lost Douglass Site in Rochester
By Hinda Mandell, Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology Sometimes a bit of thread and yarn can offer a temporary fix when it comes [...]
Past, Present, and Future on Display at #AASLH17
Briscoe Center for American History By Zachary Stocks Like many attendees of the AASLH Annual Meeting in Austin this year, I found it [...]
Calling All Writers: AASLH Wants Your Ideas #AASLHWRITES
The Editorial Board for AASLH’s book series with Rowman & Littlefield Press is actively seeking new book proposals. If you’re a good writer and have something to share [...]
2017 StEPs Graduate: Fort Nisqually Living History Museum
Exciting changes are happening at the 900 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations). Our “StEPs Spotlight” blog series [...]
Creating Connections Among Small Museums at #AASLH17
By Hannah King, Stevens County Historical Society, Morris, MN Thanks to the Small Museums Scholarship program, I was able to attend the AASLH Annual Meeting last month [...]
Continuing the Conversation to Change the Conversation
Ceiling of the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center. Conferences offer a break from the daily norm of our jobs and a [...]