WW1 Poppy Program Raises Money for National WW1 Memorial in DC and Your Community
AASLH is pleased to be working with our colleagues at the U.S. World War One Centennial Commission to promote the WW1 Poppy Program. [...]
Practicing Facilitation: Lessons from the Tenement Museum
Visitors on the Hard Times tour. Collection of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. This post was originally published on the [...]
StEPs Spotlight: The Black Heritage Society of Washington State on Becoming Better Stewards of Their Collections
Exciting changes are happening at the 800+ organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations). Our [...]
AASLH Annual Meeting Session Recordings Now Available on iTunes and Soundcloud
Did you know that session and speaker recordings from past Annual Meetings back to 2007 are available on both iTunes [...]
Book Review: Lois Hamill’s Archives for the Lay Person
(This review originally appeared in the February 2016 edition of Ohio Local History Alliance's The Local Historian.) Lois Hamill’s Archives [...]
Cracking the Nut to Reach Large Urban School Districts
As outreach educators in the museum world, many of us dream of taking our programs to large urban school districts [...]
New AASLH Books for History Professionals (Spring 2016)
We are proud to announce the newest spring 2016 titles in the AASLH Series from Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. View the [...]
Attending AASLH for the first time? Here are some tips!
Last year I attended AASLH for the first time in Birmingham, AL. And I absolutely loved the experience – so much that I jumped at [...]
Do You Want to See the Largest Historical District in the Country?
Then you will want to sign up for the Cass Gilbert in St. Paul tour as part of the 2014 AASLH Annual Meeting. Cass Gilbert, [...]
What is the Religious History Affinity Group doing in St. Paul? (Updated)
The annual meeting is soon upon us and there are three events the Religious History Affinity Group is sponsoring or co-sponsoring. On Thursday, September 18, [...]
Try Something New—Participate in Pop-Up Session at the Annual Meeting
The 2014 AASLH Annual Meeting Program Committee has developed a new way to deliver content at the meeting: Pop-Up Sessions. Pop-Up Sessions will take advantage [...]
Internet2: Enabling limitless reach and unbounded opportunities for historic sites and museums
Imagine a world where your local historic site or museum is unconstrained by bandwidth, capable of sharing high quality multi-media rich digital collections, historic artifacts [...]
Ojibwe and Dakota Indians in Northern Minnesota
The history of north central Minnesota is rich and deep with the area first inhabited by the Dakota people, and then by the Ojibwe. This [...]