How the History Community is Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis
As history organizations around the country adapt to the rapidly evolving COVID-19 outbreak and prepare to confront an uncertain future, AASLH [...]
Public History, Generation by Generation
This column originally appeared in the Winter 2020 issue of History News, AASLH's member magazine. Access a digital copy of the [...]
Introducing AASLH Affinity Community Forums
A new way to connect with your colleagues. As we all adapt to new ways of working and communicating, AASLH is [...]
StEPs Spotlight: Navy Lakehurst Historical Society, Inc.
Exciting changes are happening at the nearly 1,000 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for [...]
Mark Your Calendars for 2019 Conferences
Is your New Year's resolution to jump-start your professional development? Want to meet new colleagues and stay up-to-date with emerging [...]
Eight Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in December
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s [...]
Leadership in History Awards Nominations Open
For over seventy years, AASLH has presented the Leadership in History Awards to establish and encourage standards of excellence in [...]
Ghost Tours: Marketing Hype or Spiritual Quest?
The 2016 Ghostbusters reboot begins with an actual ghost causing problems after a docent finishes a tour at a "haunted" historic house museums. [...]
Relevancy on the Prairie: Lawrence Welk’s Childhood Home
The Welk Homestead State Historic Site, located near Strasburg, ND. Photo by Diane Rogness . The Welk Homestead State Historic Site, a farm [...]
Women Who Mentor: Mindy Porter, Director of Education, Scott Family Amazeum
The Scott Family Amazeum. One of the founding objectives of the Women’s History Affinity Group at AASLH is to “[foster] mentoring, professional development, [...]
4 Ways History Organizations Can Engage Local Voices
Alabama Voices –Alabama Department of Archives and History (Montgomery, AL) Every year, AASLH receives around 100 nominations for our Leadership in History Awards, which recognize organizations [...]
Saving Hallowed Ground’s WWI Memorial Tree Program and Sharing Local History
Planting a memorial tree in Radnor, PA. On August 29, 1914, just months after the outbreak of what would come to be known [...]
Is There Something to Memento Mori? Interpreting Death at the W.H. Stark House
Master IAM of Zwolle. Memento Mori. Engraving. Late 15th Century. Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Public Domian) Memento Mori is a style of art [...]