Seven Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in August
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards [...]
AASLH 2020 Call for Proposals
By Omar Eaton-Martínez, 2020 AASLH Program Chair The American Association for State and Local History will present its 2020 Annual Meeting in [...]
Becoming a More Inclusive AASLH
By Richard M. Josey Jr., AASLH Diversity and Inclusion Committee Vice-Chair and Member of Council In September 2018, John Dichtl, President and [...]
AASLH Announces New Institutional Membership Dues Structure
Starting July 1, AASLH will change the dues structure for institutional memberships. For institutional members renewing after July 1, 2018, [...]
The Museum of the Bible: Thoughts on Museum Location and Historical Timing
By John E. Baucom, Graduate Student, University of Oklahoma This past March, I attended a research methods workshop at the [...]
AASLH Announces 2018 Leadership in History Award Winners
AASLH is proud to announce the winners of the 73rd annual Leadership in History Awards, the most prestigious recognition for [...]
African-American Female Athletes Before Integration: Ways To Chronicle Their History Before It’s Too Late
By Evin Demirel When Alma Byrd won an Arkansas state basketball title in 1939, she had never played on a [...]
The Wright Lesson: How a Small Historical Society Took a Risk and Generated Local Recognition, Community, and Financial Support
Front of Glencoe Historical Society This article was orginally published in the Autumn 2016 issue of History News, the official magazine of AASLH. If you would [...]
AASLH’s 2016 Annual Report (PDF)
Here at AASLH, 2016 was a year of building upward and outward. In order to best share all the changes and growth, we've put together [...]
The Courageous and Faithful: The Cavalry at Jefferson Barracks
The Courageous and Faithful: The Cavalry at Jefferson Barracks was a local history project centering on an exhibition in the Old Ordnance Room Museum at [...]
Toys from the Attic: Stories of American Childhood
Toys from the Attic: Stories of American Childhood is the centerpiece of The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures permanent toy exhibitions, which premiered in [...]
Warrior Nation: A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe
Warrior Nation: A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe tells a new and compelling version of Minnesota’s creation story. It is also the definitive history [...]
My Grandfather’s Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation
In My Grandfather’s Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation, historian Brenda Child blends a historical study of Indigenous labor, unemployment, and [...]