Workshops at the AASLH Annual Conference explore a topic over a half- or full day. This extended time allows you to more deeply understand the subject and how you can implement what you’ve learned at your organization.

Workshops are available on Wednesday and Saturday. There is an additional cost to participate in workshops, and preregistration is required.

Historic Window Repair
Saturday, September 14
Participants in this workshop will learn about historic window design, operation, and maintenance. They will get the opportunity to assess historic windows in their setting at the Oakleigh House Museum and practice removing, reglazing, and rehanging sashes. Fee includes transportation, lunch, and personal protection equipment. This workshop is led by Natalie Henshaw of The Campaign for Historic Trades.

Wednesday Workshops (September 11)
Field Services Alliance Meeting
Join us for the FSA annual meeting where we’ll network, share updates on our programs, discuss trends we are seeing across the regions we serve, and plan topics for future trainings.

Introduction to Transcribing and Annotating Your Document Collections
This workshop focuses on two activities for making your document collection more accessible, discoverable, and thus usable: transcription and annotation. You will also participate in exercises to help you develop your own project policies.

Putting it All Together: Preparing for 2026 at Small History Organizations
Attend this workshop to learn about the Making History at 250 Field Guide, our new handbook of low-resource programming ideas, and how to effectively apply these tools to your site or organization.

How Cultural Competency Can Impact Your Institution and Your Stakeholders
Cultural competency is the ability to function with awareness, knowledge, and interpersonal skill when engaging people of different backgrounds, assumptions, beliefs, values, and behaviors. You’ll learn strategies to employ these skills in various ways at your organization.

Preserving Oral Histories with Podcasting
Presenters will share tips on how to collect oral histories with an oral history release form, conduct an oral history, curate a podcast season, and incorporate audio files with digital platforms from audio tours to exhibits.

Saturday Workshops (September 14)

Building Reciprocal Relationships
Learn from members of an International Coalition of Sites of Conscience cohort that is working to build reciprocal relationships with excluded communities and change institutions from the inside out.

Putting it All Together: Preparing for 2026 at Small History Organizations
Saturday’s workshop is a repeat of the Wednesday program.

See the Conference Program to learn more about these workshops. You can sign up for a workshop when you register for the conference.