Civil Rights and a Civil Society
Supervisors to first-responders attend training offered by staff of the Civil Rights Room of the Nashville Public Library. This article [...]
Hallowed Grounds: Sites of African American Memories
In February 2016, Stones River National Battlefield (SRNB) in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, debuted two public programs to celebrate Black History Month. On February [...]
AASLH Responds to President’s Executive Order Restricting Entry to U.S.
Feb 1, 2017 AASLH Responds to President’s Executive Order Restricting Entry to U.S. At this moment, when the President of the United [...]
Greetings from Detroit: A Message from the 2016 AASLH Annual Meeting Host Committee
In the waning days of the year 1900, Detroit mayor William C. Maybury had an idea. He wanted to create [...]
Re-Imagining the Historic House Museum: A Workplace for Women
In recent years, discussions about the future of the historic house museum have ebbed and flowed. A watershed moment may [...]
March StEPs Certificates
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 [...]
Meet the Emerging History Professionals Committee
The AASLH Emerging History Professionals (EHP) Affinity Community supports, connects, and unites the newest generation of state and local history practitioners. [...]
Jeffris Family Foundation Makes $375,000 Challenge Grant to Historic Madison, Inc.
AASLH Member Since 1983 At their annual meeting June 19, the Board of Directors of the Jeffris Family Foundation announced that they have awarded a [...]
In the House and on the Web: Twenty-first-Century Strategies for Interpreting Historic Interiors at the Nichols House Museum
AASLH Member Since 2005 Join us in Boston, Massachusetts on October 3, 2014 for a one-day international symposium on the benefits and challenges of using [...]
Postcards: Messages, Mediums and Materials
Last winter, I fielded a question from a colleague which spurred on some deep thoughts on postcards and the importance of descriptive words and cross-indexing. [...]
Tell the Department of Education to Make History and Civic Education a Priority
The US Department of Education is seeking comments on new proposed definitions and priorities that will guide the future of its various discretionary grant programs. [...]
Why You Need to Survey Teachers
Certainly there are teachers who love your museum or historic site, but wouldn't you like to attract even more school groups? One important step in [...]
Learning Theories: Applied
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to teach people to apply different learning theories to the tours they lead. Constructivism, the idea (dreadfully [...]