AASLH Announces 2021 Election Slate
We are proud to announce the slate of candidates for four spots on the AASLH Council and three spots on our [...]
Joy, Genealogy, and Justice: Connecting to History through Family Research
Adrienne Fikes Family Photo Collection This article is from the upcoming Spring 2021 issue of History News, AASLH’s quarterly [...]
12 Lessons Learned about Virtual Programming during the Pandemic
Educators lead live programming while hundreds of miles apart during lockdown. Photo credit: Liberty Hall Museum. By Hannah Gaston, [...]
The AASLH National Visitation Report: The View from Small Museums
By Sean Blinn, Bedminster Township (NJ) Historic Preservation Commission and AASLH Small Museums Committee Recently, AASLH featured a series of [...]
Taking a Breath at Mid-Career
Bethany and her son visiting Historic Granville in Tennessee. Some people buy fancy cars or get a new [...]
FSA Tips: Fundraising
By the AASLH Field Services Alliance At the 2019 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, the Field Services Alliance led a [...]
StEPs Spotlight: McHenry County Historical Society & Museum
Exciting changes are happening at the more than 1,000 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program [...]
Six Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in March
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in the last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program designed specifically for [...]
Finding the Hidden Women in Iceland’s History
Photo from the Women's Day Off on October 24, 1975, when 95% of all Icelandic women walked out of work and home to protest [...]
Instructions Not Included: Breaking Down Organizational Needs
A fellow archivist disclosed that the most rational approach to archiving is to never treat it like a single-headed beast. You will never cut off [...]
New Webinar Series: History Check-Ins
When you spend your days on practical activities that help your institution thrive, it can be overwhelming to tackle an unfamiliar topic. Whether you’re simply [...]
Water Has a Memory: The Impact of Sea Level Rise on the Historical Resources of Strawbery Banke Museum
Strawbery Banke Museum, located four hundred feet from the banks of the Piscataqua River in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is a nine-acre living history museum [...]
AASLH Visited 38 National Park Sites in 2017
Glacier National Park in Montana Recently, the National Park Service announced that in 2017, they had a total of 330,882,751 recreation visits. This [...]