Protecting the Legacy: Documenting Political Activity of African American Women in Tennessee Prior to 1930
Studio portrait of Annie Sybil Thomas Jarret taken by James P. Newton around 1900 in Memphis, Tennessee. Two years ago, [...]
Two Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in February
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 standards program [...]
2018 Mutual Concerns of Air and Space Museums Conference
Call for Proposals The Program Committee of the Mutual Concerns of Air and Space Museums Conference is seeking session proposals for their [...]
Anticipating the Future Of Religious History
World’s Parliament of Religions, 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition We can’t predict the future. Yet as historians thinking critically [...]
StEPs Enrollment Bonus Extended through February
Sign up for AASLH's StEPs program and begin 2017 with a road map and renewed enthusiasm! StEPs (Standards and Excellence Program [...]
Saving WWII History: Preserving an Original Structure from an American Concentration Camp
In 2015, the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation (HMWF) rescued a structure used to incarcerate Japanese Americans during World War II. [...]
Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History
Thirty years ago, the Washington State Historical Society’s board of trustees, headed by publisher and historian John M. McClelland Jr., [...]
Abercorn Archaeology: African American History in the Shadow of the Oak
Proposed plans to widen a state road and construct new interchanges near Savannah in Chatham County, Georgia led to the discovery and study of a [...]
Classifying and Naming Digital Objects with Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature 4.0 can be used to catalog digital objects. It allows museums to record information about the format (e.g., “Document, Digital”) for certain objects in the [...]
Middle Tennessee Museums See Success with StEPs
AASLH received a grant from the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee in the fall of 2011 to create a StEPs (Standards and Excellence Program for [...]
AASLH Invites Nominations for 2016 Leadership in History Awards Program
NASHVILLE, TN—December 2015 The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) invites nominations for the 2016 Leadership in History Awards. Now in its 69th [...]
Meet a Member: Jackie Peterson
We are excited to launch a new biweekly blog series called “Meet a Member.” AASLH has 5,500 fascinating members working hard for the field of [...]
Advocacy Alert: Success with ESSA! Now Tell Your Senator to Vote “Yes” on Dec 7
Members of the Historical Community, Late yesterday the House of Representatives, by a vote of 359-64, approved the conference report to S. 1177, the “Every [...]