FSA Tips: Visitor Services Beyond the Front Desk
By Jeannette Rooney, Assistant Director, Local History Services, Indiana Historical Society When we think of visitor services, we often imagine that it's all [...]
Still Time to Add Events for #AASLH18
Harry S. Truman National Historic Site Are you waiting until you get to Kansas City to purchase tickets for workshops, [...]
American National Biography Seeks Contributors for Local and Regional Stories
By Jo Payne, Head of Biographical and General Reference, Oxford University Press Our masthead proudly proclaims “The life of a nation is told [...]
Service in Cultural Heritage
Elizabeth Cruzado Carranza (center) with students from the Maria Parado de Bellido Nº 88104 school in Nivín, Peru. [...]
Got Icelandic? This Project is Cataloging Icelandic Immigrant Manuscripts at U.S. Historical Organizations
During the late 19th Century and early 20th Century, thousands of Icelanders immigrated to North America. The majority settled in Canada—mostly [...]
Three Ways History Organizations Can Collect and Interpret Memorials
Dear Boston: Messages from the Marathon Memorial When faced with tragedies, communities may find healing in creating memorials. [...]
Three Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in June
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 [...]
New AASLH Book: Art of the Amistad and the Portrait of Cinqué
The Amistad incident, one of the few successful ship revolts in the history of enslavement, has been discussed by historians for decades, even becoming the [...]
AASLH Annual Meeting: Call for Posters 2016
This year the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) is holding our annual meeting in partnership with the Michigan Museums Association in Detroit, [...]
8 Ways to Keep History Relevant
We have all talked about it. Children are not learning enough about history in schools. Leaders rarely look at history to make informed decisions. With [...]
Historical Markers as an Arts Project?
When I took a call from Dr. Holly Goldstein, a local art history professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in the [...]
Speakers Announced for the AASLH/MMA 2016 Annual Meeting
AASLH is pleased to announce our featured speakers for the our 2016 Annual Meeting, which will be held in partnership with the Michigan Museums Association. [...]
Does Your Historic House Need Reinventing?
AASLH is helping historic sites around the US look at how they engage with their communities and their sustainability and in a one-day symposium, Reinventing [...]