StEPs Spotlight: Geneva History Museum
Exciting changes are happening at the nearly 1,000 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations). [...]
#AASLH18 Featured Speakers Announced
This is the final post in a week-long series spotlighting Kansas City and Annual Meeting topics leading up to the announcement of [...]
KCMO in Pop Culture Playlist
This is the fourth post in a week-long series spotlighting Kansas City and Annual Meeting topics leading up to the announcement of [...]
Advocacy Alert: Ask Your Legislators to Fund the ESSA
Last year, AASLH worked with the National Coalition for History to advocate for the reauthorization of the Every Student Succeeds [...]
Liberty to Go to See
“Liberty to Go to See” is a dramatic encounter with one hundred years in the history of Cliveden and the [...]
Mentors, Learners, Power
This article was originally published in November 2016 on the blog of Developing History Leaders @SHA, a three-week historic administration [...]
Maryland Governor Restores Funding to Maryland’s Historic Preservation Grant Programs
Historic Maryland State Capitol in Annapolis Maryland Governor Larry Hogan included in his fiscal year 2018 budget over [...]
Tennessee War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission
While the War of 1812 has national significance, the event was exceptionally important to Tennessee. The conflict made Andrew Jackson a household name, gave rise [...]
Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation
Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation interpreted an often neglected aspect of Tennessee’s past: antebellum plantation slavery. Located in Robertson County, Wessyngton Plantation was comprised [...]
Andrew Jackson: Born for a Storm
Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage unveiled its newest exhibition, Andrew Jackson: Born for a Storm on January 8, 2015. This exhibition, timed to celebrate the bicentennial of [...]
Woodrow Wilson Family Home: A Museum of Reconstruction in Columbia & Richland County
In 2005, Historic Columbia closed the Woodrow Wilson Family Home historic site due to extensive structural issues. $3.1 million in funding from grants, private donations [...]
The Lost Museum
Public Humanities graduate students at Brown University re-imagined and resurrected the Jenks Museum, a natural history collection that existed on the university’s campus from 1871 [...]
Dressing the Bed: A Living Demonstration of 18th Century Needlework
The Betsy Ross House is unique among peer museums nationally in its interpretation of the life of a working-class, eighteenth-century tradeswoman. The c. 1740 row [...]