Civil Rights Sites Gain National Funding, Status
The Medgar Evers House The week leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s national holiday brought good news for [...]
Storify of the Jan 2017 #AASLHchat: Building Better Boards
On January 24, AASLH held our fourth #AASLHchat on Twitter. These monthly discussions are shaping up to be a great way for AASLH’ers [...]
Warnersville: Our Home, Our Neighborhood, Our Stories
This collaborative exhibit focused on Warnersville, the first planned African American community in Greensboro, NC. The project had three primary goals: to [...]
“Error” Is Not an Accepted Term
One of the great benefits of Nomenclature 4.0 is that it corrects the errors that we found after Nomenclature 3.0 [...]
Baby Boom: Motherhood & Museums
Among my little circle of friends, the last year has been quite the baby boom—three close friends added little ones [...]
Survey-Based Initiative Seeks to Better Understand Professional Development in Museum, Library, and Archives Sectors
If you are a library, archives, or museum professional, your voice is needed in a national project to better understand continuing [...]
Welcome New AASLH Members (Feb. 2016)
AASLH is pleased to welcome all the individuals and institutions who became members in February. We are so glad [...]
Preserving the Religious History of Southern Idaho
Jefferson County Historical Society in Rigby, Idaho Earlier this month I visited numerous historical societies and museums in the small towns of south-eastern [...]
Engaging the Public: Seven Rules
Steven Lubar, Director of Brown University's Public Humanities Program has recently posted "Seven Rules for Public Humanists." Without losing meaning, one could easily swap the words "Public Humanists" [...]
Where are All the School Groups Part 2 — Teachers
As mentioned in the last installment of this View from the Porch, teachers are the nut we need to crack in order to gain field [...]
AASLH Announces 2014 Leadership in History Award Winners
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Bethany Hawkins [email protected] 615-320-3203 Seventy-seven recipients from thirty-two states receive highest honor from AASLH NASHVILLE, TN—June 2014—The American Association for State and [...]
Communicating Across Languages
Docent Kathy Gunn sizes up her group as she begins a tour of the Workman House. Every institution wants to communicate their stories [...]
Where are the School Groups?
As the Curator/Director of a historic house in a small town, I hear the refrains of "why don't the schools come visit us?," "where are [...]