Five Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in September
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 [...]
Top Takeaways from the #AASLH2017 Navigating Career Pathways Session
Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Annual Meeting in Austin for our session "Next Steps: Navigating Career Pathways with [...]
Apply for an AASLH Hurricane Cultural Relief Fund Mini-Grant
Program The Hurricane Cultural Relief Fund was developed to offer cultural organizations impacted by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma a gap fund to [...]
2015 Students Opposing Slavery International Summit
President Lincoln’s Cottage (PLC) opened in 2008 as a historic site and museum in northwest Washington, D.C. While in residence, [...]
Finding Ways to Channel a Passion for History and Museums after Leaving the Field
In 2012, I made a difficult but necessary decision. After six years of undergrad and graduate school followed by an [...]
An Outward Museum: Building Community at the Levine Museum of the New South
Photo by James Willamor Museums serve in a unique yet vital manner as stewards of humanity’s cultural heritage. [...]
We Are at the Center of What It Means to Be Americans: A Letter from the AASLH Council Chair
Dear Members, AASLH is helping lead our local and national discussions about the importance of historic context, the value of content [...]
Are Religious Objects Controversial? You bet! Learn How to Address Them in Louisville
As I browsed the preliminary program for the 2015 Annual Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, the session "Controversial Objects" caught my attention. If you have any religious/controversial [...]
Part 2 – Things to See During the 2015 Annual Meeting: Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill
One of the greatest treasures to be found at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill is its collection of historic buildings. Thirty-four original buildings remain today, [...]
Managing Interpreters– Presentations as Road Maps
Managing Interpreters: Presentations as Road maps Meandering. Wandering aimlessly. Lost. Confused. Does this describe your worst road trip? Maybe it describes the conversations between the [...]
Deaccessioning Demystified!
Are you wary of starting a deaccessioning project–or even mentioning the need to deaccession to your board? Does it sound too big, too formidable, too [...]
Preregistration for Louisville Ends Friday 8/21
Preregistration Ends This Friday, August 14 Deadline Extended to Friday, August 21! 2015 AASLH Annual Meeting Louisville, Kentucky September 16-19 Nothing can replace the opportunities [...]
Nomenclature 4.0 – What Makes This Edition Great
Nomenclature 4.0 is the most up-to-date print edition of one of North America’s most popular controlled vocabularies for classifying and naming objects in historical museums. [...]