Announcing the 2023 AASLH Election Slate
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) announces the slate of candidates for the 2023 AASLH election. This year, [...]
Encourage Members of Congress to Join the America250 Caucus
Members of Congress are forming a Congressional America250 Caucus to work together to commemorate and support the upcoming 250th anniversary of [...]
Call for Posters for AASLH 2023 Annual Conference
AASLH has partnered with the National Council on Public History (NCPH) to invite proposals for an NCPH‐sponsored Poster Session at the 2023 AASLH [...]
Everyone Their Own Historian
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis It is now more than ninety years since Carl Becker delivered his presidential [...]
Small Museum Luncheon Program: Representing Indigenous History Through the Power of Place
The interior furnishings of the Sachem’s House in Nowashe Village. By Julia Gray, Wilson Museum, Castine, ME [...]
2022 AASLH Council Election Results
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) Council sets policy and provides leadership for the association, is [...]
Explore Civics at the 2022 AASLH Annual Conference
There’s a strong connection between history and civics. The state of New York, home to this year’s AASLH Annual [...]
Introducing the AASLH Public History Research Lab
By John Marks, Director, Public History Research Lab and Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives Conducting and sharing research about the state of the field is [...]
Research Brief: What a New Report Reveals about History in American Life
By John Marks, Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives Late last year, the Humanities Indicators Project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences published The [...]
Reaching Excellence One Step at a Time
By John Dichtl, AASLH President and CEO After ten years of helping more than 1,100 institutions move forward through self-assessment, this month AASLH relaunches [...]
Museum Education and the Great Outdoors
By Catherine Shortliffe and Sally Meyer Museum educators are planners. We strategize years in advance and in general take the long view when making decisions. [...]
What Will We Call the January 6 Attack on Democracy?
Source: Wikimedia Commons. Photographer: Tyler Merbler. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. Dear AASLH members, The attack on the U.S. [...]
2020 National Visitation Report: Little Change in 2019
By John Marks, AASLH Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives and W. Maclane Hull, University of South Carolina Visitation at history organizations was flat from 2018 [...]