What’s New at the 2022 AASLH Annual Conference
Starting with last year’s Annual Conference in Little Rock, the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) began an experiment [...]
Announcing the 2022 AASLH Leadership in History Award Winners
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) proudly announces the winners of the 77th annual Leadership in History Awards, [...]
Rick Hill is the 2022 AASLH Annual Conference Keynote Speaker
The 2022 AASLH Annual Conference takes place this September in Buffalo, New York, which is on the unceded lands of the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Book Review: Museums Involving Communities: Authentic Connections
This review originally appeared in the Winter 2019 issue of History News. Book Review: Museums Involving Communities: Authentic Connections By Margaret Kadoyama (New York: Routledge, [...]
Introducing the AASLH History in Our Parks Task Force
By Shawn Halifax, Cultural History Interpretation Coordinator, Charleston County Park & Recreation Commission, Charleston, SC For over seventeen years, I’ve worked for a county park [...]
Heritage Planning for Sustainable Cultural Impacts
By Douglas Worts, AASLH Sustainability Task Force member In a recent column for History News, President and CEO John Dichtl states that the heritage sector [...]
History and Climate Change
This column originally appeared in the Winter 2019 issue of History News. By John R. Dichtl, AASLH President and CEO Midwinter, a week after the [...]
Book Review: Teaching with Primary Sources
This review originally appeared in the Winter 2019 issue of History News. Teaching with Primary Sources By Christopher J. Prom and Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (eds.) [...]
AASLH’s Task Force on Environmental Sustainability and Climate
By Sarah W. Sutton, Task Force Co-chair It’s an incredibly exciting time to be a history professional. I am frequently overwhelmed yet thrilled by the [...]