Keep Moving Forward
In three years, the United States will mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a moment that offers great [...]
Docents as Museum Professionals: Lessons from the Amory Regional Museum
By Bryan Mathison, Senior Library Associate at Mississippi State University and Docent/Research Associate at the Amory Museum The city of Amory, [...]
Get to Know Boise’s Rich History with These Books and Documentaries
By Bethany Hawkins, AASLH Chief of Operations The 2023 AASLH Annual Conference will be held in Boise, Idaho, on September 6-9. [...]
Are Historians Ready For The Semiquincentennial?
By Lia Warner, NYU Graduate Summer Fellow This July 4th will mark the four-year countdown to the 250th anniversary [...]
Making Individual Membership More Valuable
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) is making changes and adding benefits to our basic Individual [...]
Small Museums Recover from the Pandemic
By Elizabeth P. Stewart and members of the AASLH Small Museums Committee: Jacqui Ainlay-Conley, Sean Blinn, Ann Bennett, Laura [...]
AASLH Summer Interns: Sam Dinnie
Sam and their advisor accepting the Outstanding Senior Thesis award. By Sam Dinnie, 2022 AASLH Summer Intern [...]
Authenticity and Authority: The Role of Historic Sites
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis Historic house museums, historic sites, and history museums constitute the largest class of museums in a nation rich [...]
Digital Resources and Accessibility for Museums and Historical Sites
By Nathan Wuertenberg July 26 marked the 30th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a landmark civil rights law [...]
We Must Save Museums to Make History
By John Dichtl, AASLH President and CEO TIME Magazine’s Olivia Waxman recently published an article discussing the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on [...]
Ona Judge Revisited: Reflections on the #AASLH2019 Keynote, One Year Later
By Janice Klein It’s now been almost a year since AASLH met in Philadelphia, and I am still thinking about the keynote address delivered [...]
Seizing the Moment: An Opportunity to Explore and Experiment
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis The perfect storm we have been living through has given the word pivot new currency and relevance. Everyone, or so it seems, [...]
Monuments, History, and History Organizations
By John Dichtl, President and CEO, AASLH While the widespread fervor to rethink and take down some of the nation’s thousands of historical monuments [...]