AASLH Council Commits to In-Person Conference for September 2021
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) is pleased to confirm that the association will hold an in-person conference [...]
When You Swim with Dolphins…
By Harry Klinkhamer, Historical Resources Manager, City of Venice, FL In what feels like an eternity ago, AASLH held the 2019 [...]
More States Join 250th Anniversary Commemoration Effort
By John Marks, Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives, AASLH A little over a year ago, the Congressionally-appointed U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission published Inspiring [...]
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 [...]
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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 state of the field is [...]
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 Arts and Sciences published The [...]
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 self-assessment, this month AASLH relaunches [...]
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 long view when making decisions. [...]
What Will We Call the January 6 Attack on Democracy?
Source: Wikimedia Commons. Photographer: Tyler Merbler. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. Dear AASLH members, The attack on the U.S. [...]
2020 National Visitation Report: Little Change in 2019
By John Marks, AASLH Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives and W. Maclane Hull, University of South Carolina Visitation at history organizations was flat from 2018 [...]