Making History Matter: Agency
Visitors at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum confront the choices made by local activists to challenge Jim Crow in Mississippi. Photo courtesy [...]
StEPs Spotlight: Jackson County Historical Society
Exciting changes are happening at the more than 1,000 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History [...]
National Park Service Visitation and American Engagement with History
Martin Van Buren National Historic Site, Kinderhook, New York. By W. Maclane Hull, graduate student at the University of South [...]
The Value of Small Museum Experience, or Why I Don’t Have a “Better” Job
By Aimee E. Newell, Ph.D., Executive Director, Luzerne County Historical Society, Wilkes Barre, PA I met someone a couple of months [...]
Educators and Interpreters Gearing Up for the Annual Meeting
By Megan Wood, Director of Museum and Library Services, Ohio History Connection and Chair, Educators and Interpreters Committee At the Annual [...]
“It’s Never Been This Hot” – Addressing Climate Change
On July 31, AASLH joined We Are Still In (WASI), a national effort to mobilize state and local organizations “to [...]
AASLH Partners with Literacy KC to Bring History Home
By Rachel Lambert, AASLH Annual Meeting Intern AASLH is proud to announce that we have partnered with Literacy KC for [...]
Challenges and Choices in Pennsylvania's Forests
“Challenges and Choices in Pennsylvania’s Forests” explores six time periods, from 800 BCE through the present, with the goal of illustrating the intended and unintended consequences of [...]
Cleveland in World War II
Cleveland in World War II is a collaborative work based on archival sources and contemporary interviews by journalist Brian Albrecht of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and [...]
Mistakes Were Made
Note from blog editors: Sean Kelley and a panel presented a session at the 2016 AASLH Annual Meeting about the lies we tell at historic [...]
Meet the Staff–Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens/Akron Public Schools Place-Based Education Curricula
From October 2014 to November 2015, 736 fifth grade students participated in “Meet the Staff,” an experiential learning curriculum created in partnership with Akron Public [...]
Carillon Brewing Company
Carillon Brewing Company (CBC) is the first licensed production brewery in a museum. Dayton History’s newest project, this 10,000 square foot living history exhibit and [...]
The Old North State at War: The North Carolina Civil War Atlas
The Old North State at War: The North Carolina Civil War Atlas is a comprehensive study of the impact of the war on the Tar [...]