Take Me Out to the (Old Timey) Ball Game
Full disclosure: I'm no sports fan. Not even close. But last year I discovered something that made sports not only tolerable but [...]
Five Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in April
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 [...]
Onward To New Challenges
On my final day at AASLH, I wanted to express my gratitude to everyone I have come in contact with over the [...]
Women Who Mentor: Mindy Porter, Director of Education, Scott Family Amazeum
The Scott Family Amazeum. One of the founding objectives of the Women’s History Affinity Group at AASLH is [...]
4 Ways History Organizations Can Engage Local Voices
Alabama Voices –Alabama Department of Archives and History (Montgomery, AL) Every year, AASLH receives around 100 nominations for our Leadership [...]
Saving Hallowed Ground’s WWI Memorial Tree Program and Sharing Local History
Planting a memorial tree in Radnor, PA. On August 29, 1914, just months after the outbreak of what [...]
Is There Something to Memento Mori? Interpreting Death at the W.H. Stark House
Master IAM of Zwolle. Memento Mori. Engraving. Late 15th Century. Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Public Domian) Memento Mori [...]
Latest Addition to Brooklyn Historical Society’s Digital Curriculum Investigates Dutch “Breukelen”
The Brooklyn Historical Society (AASLH member since 1999) recently announced the release of Dutch Breukelen: Where Brooklyn Began, the latest publication in BHS’s growing digital curriculum library. Designed [...]
When History Doesn’t Matter
I was recently thrown for a loop when a member of my team suggested that I present at an upcoming conference with the theme “When [...]
Spend the Night with History: The Making of the C&O Canal Quarters Program
Tucked along the C&O Canal (which runs through DC, MD, and WV) are over twenty stone structures that pay testament to the canal era, when [...]
Nomenclature 4.0 – Why the change from “Classification” to “Class”?
New Nomenclature 4.0 users that are familiar with Revised Nomenclature or Nomenclature 3.0 will notice a change in the naming of the hierarchical levels within the [...]
Six Tips for A Successful AASLH Award Nomination
AASLH likes to give awards. The awards committee members who review and vote on nominations love to vote yes and award good history. That said, [...]
Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill Receives $5.1 Million Lilly Endowment Grant
HARRODSBURG, Ky. (January 12, 2016)—Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill (member of AASLH since 2002) announces that Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded the organization a $5.1 [...]