Master Local Historian: AASLH Launches Historian Training Program for the Public
A photograph of the Tennessee State Library and Archives building taken on July 17, 1956, a few short years after it [...]
To Do Rightly: Congregations as Incubators of American Activism
Photo by Victor Manuel Ramos. Courtesy of Arch Street Meeting House. Last year, the Arch Street Friends Meeting House in [...]
Three Ways History Organizations Can Talk About Environmental History
Image from Ursus Among Us exhibit. Want to explore the intersection between the natural sciences and history at your organization? [...]
Resources for Heritage Institutions Affected by Flooding in Louisiana
AASLH is reaching out to our constituents in the recent flood affected areas in Louisiana. As a member of the [...]
How to Choose an Object Name for Cataloging an Abstract of Title
Lynne Sylvester of the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation in Florida has posed this question: I have to catalog an Abstract of Title [...]
Cemeteries: The Eternal Classroom
When I read Michele M. Celani’s blog post about the effectiveness of historical markers in the classroom I thought “oh [...]
Getting Schooled in History Relevance by Hamilton
By Bethany Hawkins, AASLH I am really late to the party. I just listened to the Hamilton: An American [...]
Historic South Boise Trolley Station Plaza
In 1891, booming residential growth in Boise, Idaho was tied directly to the streetcar lines that extended from downtown to new developments at the edges [...]
Slavery and Freedom in Savannah
A major publication, a museum exhibition, and a three-day city symposium, Slavery and Freedom in Savannah, organized by Telfair Museums, marks the launch of a [...]
The Fort Daniel Historic and Archaeological Research Site
The Fort Daniel Foundation, Incorporated and its sister organization, the Gwinnett Archaeological Research Society (GARS), brought together a group of professional and avocational historians and [...]
Gettysburg Seminary Ridge Museum
The Gettysburg Seminary Ridge Museum opened as a legacy project of the 150th Civil War anniversary. The museum tells a Civil War story that is [...]
The Lancaster Long Rifle Exhibit
The exhibit The Lancaster Long Rifle-The Golden Age of an American Art Form marked the first time that the Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum [...]
Penn College History Trail
The Pennsylvania College of Technology History Trail is a walking path around the college's main campus punctuated by 17 informational kiosks. Installed in 2013, as [...]