23 AASLH Members Receive Over $4 Million in NEH Grants
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $21.7 million in grants for more than 200 humanities projects [...]
100,000 Scans Later: Reflections on a Two-Year Project
Picture a cramped, dusty basement covered wall-to-wall with wooden shelves and metal canisters holding 18th and 19th century documents. Now imagine climate-controlled [...]
5 More Citizen History Projects to Bookmark (Part 3)
Photo of a school supported by the Freedmen's Bureau in North Carolina. Photo shared by the NMAAHC (Source: Learn NC, University [...]
Seven Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in July
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 [...]
PokéWHAT?! National Trust for Historic Preservation Staff Provide a Pokémon Go Primer
As the Pokémon Go craze was taking hold of communities and blowing up in the press last week, Small Museum [...]
Pittock Mansion Historic House Museum Sees Record-Breaking Attendance of 100,000 + Annual Visitors
“At a time when many historic house museums across the country are experiencing declining visitation, Portland, Oregon's Pittock Mansion has [...]
2016 AASLH Online Conference Open for Registration
Can’t make it to Detroit but still want to participate in the AASLH Annual Meeting? Join us at the Online Conference [...]
Prairie Daughters: The Art and Lives of Annie Stein and Orabel Thortvedt
Prairie Daughters: The Art and Lives of Annie Stein and Orabel Thortvedt shared the contributions these two virtually unknown women artists made to the preservation [...]
Take Cover, Neenah: Backyard Family Fallout Shelters in Cold War America
Take Cover, Neenah: Backyard Family Fallout Shelters in Cold War America is an exhibit developed by the Neenah Historical Society. Making use of artifacts recovered [...]
A Great Civil War: Battles That Defined a Nation, 1863
A Great Civil War: Battles That Defined a Nation, 1863 focuses on the human aspect of the civil war by telling the story of the [...]
"They Led the Way"
In September 1963, for the first time, four African American students walked through the doors of all- white Leon County public schools in Tallahassee, Florida. [...]
#QR1863: A Twitter Reenactment of Quantrill's Raid
On August 21, 2013, community volunteers at Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area used Twitter and the hashtag #QR1863 to reenact the sesquicentennial of Quantrill's Raid [...]
Forging Faith, Building Freedom: African American Faith Experiences in Delaware, 1800-1980
Beginning as early as 1693, African Americans have a long history of living and working in Delaware. Forging Faith, Building Freedom: African American Faith Experiences [...]