2017 StEPs Graduate: Fort Nisqually Living History Museum
Exciting changes are happening at the 900 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations). Our [...]
Creating Connections Among Small Museums at #AASLH17
By Hannah King, Stevens County Historical Society, Morris, MN Thanks to the Small Museums Scholarship program, I was able to attend the AASLH Annual [...]
Continuing the Conversation to Change the Conversation
Ceiling of the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center. Conferences offer a break from the daily norm of our [...]
Hear, Here: Voices of Downtown La Crosse
Hear, Here: Voices of Downtown La Crosse is a location-based mobile phone documentary project about downtown La Crosse that uses street-level [...]
A Walk in 1875 St. Louis
It all started with a map. Pictorial St. Louis, a perspective map that showed every street, building, park, and even [...]
Peb Yog Hmoob—We Are Hmong Minnesota
In 1975, the Hmong—a distinct ethnic group with origins in China, who by the twentieth century were concentrated in northern [...]
Life & Death on the Border 1910–1920
Life & Death on the Border 1910–1920, a groundbreaking exhibition of the Bullock Texas State History Museum, brings new voices [...]
Don’t Miss #AASLH2015 Online!
Don’t Miss the 2015 AASLH Online Conference! It’s an opportunity for you, your colleagues, and volunteers to attend the annual meeting virtually. Register Now! When: [...]
Granite Falls Historical Society’s City Hall
2015 marks AASLH's 75th Anniversary Year. For the occasion, AASLH has created a blog series for members to share their unique history and memories. Contributions [...]
Pop-Up Sessions: Here to Serve Your Pressing Needs
It happens every year. Urgent issues—or burgeoning topics—surface at our annual meeting or during the lag time after proposals are due and before the conference [...]
Message from the Council Chair: On AASLH 2015
The 2015 annual meeting theme, “The Power of Possibility,” was crafted by program chair Kyle McKoy of the Indiana Historical Society. The annual meeting host [...]
The Pleasant Hill Shakers and the Power of Possibility
The legacy of the Pleasant Hill Shaker community has often been assessed exclusively through their material culture. However, each physical item is inseparable from the [...]
AASLH Members Receive More Than $1 Million in Grants from NEH and IMLS
This summer, more than thirty AASLH member institutions were awarded prestigious grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Institute for Museum [...]