Experience the Power of Place with Tours at the Annual Conference
“Right Here, Right Now: The Power of Place” is the theme of the 2022 AASLH Annual Conference. Our host city, Buffalo, [...]
Right Here, Right Now: A Message from the 2022 AASLH Annual Conference Co-Chairs
By Sarah Jencks, Partner, History Co:Lab and Jennifer Ortiz, Director, Utah Division of History We are thrilled to gather this fall [...]
AASLH Summer Interns: Marissa Hamm
Fellows Anne Comer and Marissa Hamm in the sitting room of the Thomas Cole National Historic Site with the interactive [...]
Two AASLH Conferences in 2021
Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock. Building on the reach and success of last year’s online annual [...]
What Are the Legislative Issues Facing the Field in 2021? A Report from Museums Advocacy Day
By Bethany L. Hawkins, AASLH Chief of Operations On February 22-23, AASLH staff joined hundreds of museum advocates from [...]
Where Are Our Think Tanks?
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis This is what you shall do…re-examine all you have been told at school [...]
Measuring Social Impact to Make Social Changes: Learn How To Get Involved
By Michelle A. Mileham, Ph.D., Project Manager, Measurement of Museum Social Impact (MOMSI), Utah Division of Arts and Museums [...]
Public History in a Social Service Agency: The House on Henry Street Exhibition Connects Staff and Neighbors with Their Past
By Katie Vogel, Public Historian, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY There is a resonance between the past and present that invigorates the current work [...]
An Invitation to #AASLH2019
This August 28-31, the joint American Association for State and Local History and International Coalition of Sites of Conscience Annual Meeting will convene in Philadelphia [...]
AASLH 19th Amendment Centennial Value Statement
Pictured here is Annie Sybil Thomas Jarret at the Republican National Convention in either the 1940s or 1950s held in Chicago. Jarret was an [...]
Improving Exhibits, One Step at a Time
By Sara Francis, Glenwood Springs Historical Society & Frontier Museum, Glenwood Springs, CO I am grateful to AASLH for awarding me the New Professionals scholarship [...]
Extended! Enroll in StEPs and Receive Three Bonus Resources
The work that needs to be done at our nation’s museums is endless. But, as we all know, our energy and resources are not unlimited. [...]
Five Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in April
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 [...]