Conference Context: Corruption and Consequences in Kansas City’s Pendergast Era
Conference Context is a blog series discussing local history and contemporary topics in our next Annual Meeting destination: Kansas City, Missouri. We [...]
Five 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 program designed specifically [...]
33 AASLH Members Receive Over $6 Million in NEH Grants
This month, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $43.1 million in grants for 218 humanities projects. “From nationally [...]
Artful Encounters with Women’s History at the National Gallery of Art
Judith Leyster, Self-Portrait, c. 1630. National Gallery of Art. Women Artists at the National Gallery The National Gallery [...]
Beyond Passion Projects: Rethinking the Economic Models of Public History
Mural designed by Daisy Salto and painted by the sixth grade class at Mark Twain Elementary School, Chicago IL, [...]
Leveraging Technology to Do Better History
Digital technology is vast, constantly changing, and increasingly necessary to understand and utilize if your site wants to stay relevant. [...]
Call for Articles: Emerging History Professional Takeover of History News Magazine
Emerging History Professionals are taking over the Winter 2018 issue of AASLH’s History News magazine! The issue will be guest [...]
3 Takeaways from “Interpreting Slavery: Building a Theoretical Foundation”
The Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site (ULSG) in St. Louis, Missouri, preserves and interprets the lives of Ulysses S. Grant, his wife Julia Dent [...]
AASLH Launches New Membership Category for Academic Programs
We are excited to announce a brand new membership category for Academic Programs. This membership for Public History, Museum Studies, and related programs is designed to [...]
NEH helps fund major public programming and publishing initiative to mark the 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I
New York, NY. — Library of America has been awarded a $550,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in partial support of World [...]
Using Front Line Staff to Build the Best Visitor Experience
Do a quick Google search for the definition of Visitor Experience. Go ahead. You won’t find one. Primarily because we, as institutions, define what the [...]
Two AASLH Members Receive 2016 National Medal
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has announced the ten recipients of the 2016 National Medal for Museum and Library Service, the nation's highest [...]
Earth Day and History Organizations: Making Green Connections
Every year it surprises you - Earth Day, again!? Should you join in? Can you find the time? Can you connect history to environmental sustainability? [...]