What’s New at the AASLH/AMA 2021 Annual Meeting? – UPDATED
By Bethany L. Hawkins Registration is now open for the AASLH/AMA Annual Meeting. We cannot wait to see you Little Rock [...]
From “Places of Worship” to “Gathering Places”
New York's Eldridge Street Synagogue, now a museum. By Christopher D. Cantwell More than thirty years ago, historian James [...]
Virtual Networking with the E&I Community
By AASLH's Educators and Interpreters Affinity Community On April 21, the Educators and Interpreters group held their latest meet-up via Zoom [...]
Visitation at Historic House Museums
By John Garrison Marks and W. Maclane Hull This is post number three in our series exploring the National [...]
Small is Mighty: Visitation Growth Strongest at Small History Organizations
By John Garrison Marks and W. Maclane Hull Over the course of this week, we will be providing deeper dives on [...]
Announcing the AASLH National Visitation Report
By John Garrison Marks, Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives, AASLH AASLH is excited today to publish our first-ever National Visitation Report. [...]
StEPs Spotlight: Our Latest Gold Graduate, the Manitowoc County Historical Society
Exciting changes are happening at the more than 1,000 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program [...]
Two Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in February
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 [...]
2018 Mutual Concerns of Air and Space Museums Conference
Call for Proposals The Program Committee of the Mutual Concerns of Air and Space Museums Conference is seeking session proposals for their November 2018 meeting [...]
Most Trust Museums as Sources of Historical Information
By John Dichtl, AASLH President and CEO Twenty years ago, we learned from Rosenzweig and Thelen’s The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in [...]
Lessons to Learn from Hollywood “History”
© 20th Century Fox The week after Christmas, I saw The Greatest Showman which is a highly imaginative musical movie about P.T. Barnum, [...]
2018 Small Museums Scholarships Available
Small Museums Scholarships 2018 AASLH Annual Meeting and Online Conference Kansas City, MO – September 26-29 DEADLINE: June 8 The American Association for State and [...]
It’s Official: We’re Dating Our Building
Back in 2016, AASLH was searching for new office space. Our rented office on Church Street where we had been for decades was no longer [...]