2020 Leadership in History Award Winners
Secretary of the Smithsonian Lonnie G. Bunch, our 2017 Award of Distinction recipient, with former Council Chair Katherine Kane and [...]
A Statement from AASLH
The past few days have provided crushing reminders of how the nation still struggles with violence and racism born in the [...]
Think Creatively to Find Hidden History
By Emily Libecap, International Museum of the Horse, Lexington, KY How do we find historical information on people who were excluded [...]
Heritage Planning for Sustainable Cultural Impacts
By Douglas Worts, AASLH Sustainability Task Force member In a recent column for History News, President and CEO John Dichtl [...]
History and Climate Change
This column originally appeared in the Winter 2019 issue of History News. By John R. Dichtl, AASLH President and CEO [...]
Book Review: Teaching with Primary Sources
This review originally appeared in the Winter 2019 issue of History News. Teaching with Primary Sources By Christopher J. Prom [...]
AASLH’s Task Force on Environmental Sustainability and Climate
By Sarah W. Sutton, Task Force Co-chair It’s an incredibly exciting time to be a history professional. I am frequently [...]
Five Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in July
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in the last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program designed specifically for [...]
The Woodlands Grave Gardeners: Volunteers and Partnerships in Historic Cemeteries
By Starr E. Herr-Cardillo The Woodlands Cemetery is a 54-acre National Historic Landmark in the University City neighborhood in Philadelphia. Formerly the estate of 18th-century botanist [...]
Lonnie G. Bunch, III to Receive 2017 AASLH Award of Distinction
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) proudly announces that historian, author, curator, and educator Lonnie G. Bunch, III will be presented with [...]
AASLH Annual Meeting 5K Registration Now Open
5K Runners at the 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting. Are you a runner? Do you like to run with friends? Do you like to [...]
Watch Your Language! Denominational and Congregational Lingos
AASLH has been giving a lot of attention recently to how we as interpreters use language. "We live by stories," wrote Nobel winner Elie Wiesel. [...]
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington Welcomes New Executive Director
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington has announced the appointment of Kara Blond as the Society's new Executive Director, effective September 2017. Blond is [...]