William G. Pomeroy Foundation® Makes Significant Investment in AASLH and Semiquincentennial
The William G. Pomeroy Foundation® is providing a $400,000 grant to the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) to [...]
The Social Studies Mandate We Need
By Steve Murray, Director, Alabama Department of Archives & History, Montgomery, AL The start of the new academic year finds K-12 [...]
Congratulations to the 2022 AASLH Annual Conference Scholarship Winners
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) is proud to announce the winners of two scholarship programs for the [...]
Call for Survey Participants: Making in Museums and Historic Sites
By Tim Betz, Morgan Log House (Towamencin, PA )and Kutztown University of Pennsylvania (Kutztown, PA) Museums and historic [...]
Share Your Expertise: 2022 AASLH Call for Proposals Now Open
By Jennifer Ortiz, 2022 AASLH Annual Meeting Program Chair What have you done that you can share with others [...]
Call for Papers: An Accessible Past: Making Historic Sites Accessible
By Heather Pressman, Molly Brown House Museum, Denver, CO History museums and historic sites are consistently the most visited [...]
Making the Invisible Visible: Neurodiversity and the Workplace
By Richard Josey, Collective Journeys LLC and Chair of AASLH’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee “If you are always trying [...]
From Oklahoma to Philly: A Scholarship Winner’s Perspective on #AASLH2019
By Natalie Wadle, Shawnee Tribe Cultural Center, Miami, OK This year I was fortunate enough to attend the AASLH Annual Meeting in Philadelphia with funding [...]
Best Practices for StEPs Success
By Cherie Cook, Senior Program Manager, AASLH When I think about best practices for museums, my curatorial work from years ago kicks in and I [...]
Making History Matter: Agency
Visitors at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum confront the choices made by local activists to challenge Jim Crow in Mississippi. Photo courtesy of the Mississippi [...]
StEPs Spotlight: Jackson County Historical Society
Exciting changes are happening at the more than 1,000 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations). Our “StEPs [...]
National Park Service Visitation and American Engagement with History
Martin Van Buren National Historic Site, Kinderhook, New York. By W. Maclane Hull, graduate student at the University of South Carolina and 2019 [...]
Nine Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in September
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 designed specifically [...]