StEPs Spotlight: Essex Historical Society is Achieving Success Through Change and Risk-Taking
Exciting changes are happening at the 900 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations). Our [...]
AASLH Announces 2017 Small Museums Scholarship Winners
Now in their eleventh year, the Small Museums Affinity Group's annual scholarships help colleagues from small museums across the country join us [...]
Deaccessioning and Capitalization of Collections
In late July, news broke in The New York Times, Boston Globe, and National Public Radio about the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, [...]
Four Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in October
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 [...]
A Golden Age for Historic Properties
In the Summer 2007 History News, John and Anita Durel predicted that "Historic properties are on the verge of a [...]
Grant Opportunity: Civic Engagement Through Literature with the NEA Big Read
Have you heard of the NEA Big Read? The National Endowment for the Arts recently released the application guidelines for [...]
AASLH and NEMA Partner to Strengthen History Organizations in New England
Organizations in the New England region, especially all-volunteer ones, can save money and put their organization on a path to [...]
Mount Vernon Releases New Animated Feature
AASLH Member Since 1984 Washington’s Winter Campaign Comes to Life in Mount Vernon’s Second Feature Animation MOUNT VERNON, VA – George Washington’s crossing of the [...]
Using Nomenclature 3.0: Cross-Indexing
New users of Nomenclature 3.0 sometimes wonder how to catalog objects that have multiple functions, or that can be named according to various characteristics. Which of [...]
Call for Posters 2015
This year the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) is holding our annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, on September 16-19. We are proud [...]
Make a Home for History in Congress
When we want to advocate at the national level for historical institutions and what our community does, it helps if our Congressional representatives are already [...]
TrendsWatch 2015
Every year, the American Alliance of Museums' Center for the Future of Museums publishes a forecasting report that summarizes emerging trends in the museum world. The [...]
AASLH Hosts Luncheon at AAM 2015
On April 27, AASLH hosted a luncheon at the American Alliance of Museums annual meeting in Atlanta. Members and friends took time out of their busy [...]