Conference Context: White Flight and Civil Rights in Johnson County, Kansas
Conference Context is a blog series discussing local history and contemporary topics in our next Annual Meeting destination: Kansas City, Missouri. We [...]
AASLH Members Encouraged to Submit Comments on Proposed Change Concerning Deaccessioning Proceeds
For more than twenty years, accounting standards from the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) have been out of alignment with both the [...]
Five Lessons From One Quirky Museum
While on vacation with my family in New England this summer, I had the joy of visiting the Umbrella Cover Museum in [...]
AASLH Begins Project to Update and Enhance Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations (StEPs)
Seven years ago, AASLH introduced the Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations (StEPs) to its members and to history [...]
EXTENDED Through June! Enroll in AASLH’s Standards and Excellence Program and Get Four Free Webinars
Join AASLH’s Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations (StEPs) now through May 31 June 30 and receive four of our [...]
Four Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in May
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in the last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations (StEPs) [...]
What It’s Like to Work with a Marketing Agency on Your Annual Fundraiser
The annual fundraiser at the Napa Valley Museum Year after year museums and historical societies and countless other [...]
Pulitzer Prize Winner Annette Gordon-Reed Elected Trustee of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (March 4, 2016) – The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (AASLH members since 1989) board of trustees has elected Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and legal scholar [...]
When Baseball Went to War: U.S. Navy Baseball History Exhibit Opens at Puget Sound Navy Museum
The Puget Sound Navy Museum (AASLH members since 2015) in Bremerton, Washington is excited to announce the opening of a new exhibit on March 4th. [...]
The Heritage Society in Houston Receives Large Grant for Marketing
Award Encourages Visitors to Tour, Touch and Live Houston's Storied Past Houston, TX - March 1, 2016 - Historians and preservation enthusiasts now have a [...]
“Error” Is Not an Accepted Term
One of the great benefits of Nomenclature 4.0 is that it corrects the errors that we found after Nomenclature 3.0 was published. But, wouldn’t you [...]
Baby Boom: Motherhood & Museums
Among my little circle of friends, the last year has been quite the baby boom—three close friends added little ones to their families. Aunt Melissa [...]
Survey-Based Initiative Seeks to Better Understand Professional Development in Museum, Library, and Archives Sectors
If you are a library, archives, or museum professional, your voice is needed in a national project to better understand continuing education/professional development (CE/PD). The Mapping [...]