Emerging History Professionals at the 2017 Annual Meeting
EHPs enjoying last year’s Annual Meeting mixer in Detroit. Image courtesy of Hannah Hethmon. On behalf of the Emerging History [...]
And Then They Booed: Emergency Planning for Outdoor Events
Brucemore hosts the Cedar Rapids, Iowa community for 9 signature events and 32 specific performances annually. Emergency planning is crucial! [...]
41 AASLH Members Receive Over $9 Million in NEH Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $39.3 million in grants for 245 humanities projects and programs this summer. [...]
What AASLH Attendees Want to Learn at the 2017 Annual Meeting
We sent all attendees of the 2016 Annual Meeting a survey to find out what we did right and what [...]
Can I Call It A Coozy? Classifying the Iconic Beverage Holder in Collections
Shortly after Nomenclature 4.0 was released, a colleague of mine John Neill, Riley County Historical Museum contacted me through social media asking, [...]
Center for Home Movies Searching for Public Holdings of Amateur Films
The Center for Home Movies is undertaking, thanks to support from the Library of Congress and CLIR, a survey of home [...]
Museums Working with Communities: The Book
I am pleased to announce that my colleague Beth Bollwerk and I have a new book that will be available [...]
A Colonial Collection Transformed into a Local Museum
Celebrating 75 Years of Making the Past More Meaningful to All Americans 2015 marks AASLH’s 75th Anniversary Year. For the occasion, AASLH has created a [...]
Banking on Accuracy in Nomenclature
Finding the correct term in nomenclature can be challenging, especially because many terms appear to be similar at first glance. However, there are more specialized [...]
New Leadership in Place at AASLH
May 1, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY NEW LEADERSHIP IN PLACE John Dichtl Assumes New Post as President/CEO Nashville, [...]
Sounds of Silence
Grady Mcferrin, The Driveway Moment, 2009 What are the sounds of your historic house museum? I thought about this the other day as [...]
Advice for the Next USPS Historian
Greetings! My name is Jenny Lynch, and I'm the historian of the United States Postal Service. I worked in the USPS Historian's Office for twenty [...]
Save the Date for the 2015 AASLH Annual Meeting
Save the Date! 2015 AASLH Annual Meeting Louisville, Kentucky September 16-19 Registration Opens by June 1 Nothing can replace the opportunities that arise when you [...]