Ona Judge Revisited: Reflections on the #AASLH2019 Keynote, One Year Later
By Janice Klein It’s now been almost a year since AASLH met in Philadelphia, and I am still thinking about the [...]
Seizing the Moment: An Opportunity to Explore and Experiment
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis The perfect storm we have been living through has given the word pivot new currency and relevance. Everyone, or [...]
Monuments, History, and History Organizations
By John Dichtl, President and CEO, AASLH While the widespread fervor to rethink and take down some of the nation’s thousands [...]
Overcoming Barriers to Interpreting Religion
Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. By Barbara Franco, Religious History Affinity Community Chair Adapted from her presentation [...]
The 250th Anniversary Is Just Seven Years Away
“Revolution 250 event in Boston Harbor.” Credit: Jim Collins Photography/Revolution 250 By John Marks, Senior Manager of Strategic [...]
First Group of Entries in “The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook” Coming in August
By Modupe Labode, Will Walker, and Robert Weible, Editors of "The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook" We are excited to announce that [...]
“Opportunity Disguised as Chaos” – A Q&A with Brooke Salvanto of Tuckerton Seaport, Small Museums Luncheon Speaker
By Brooke Salvanto, Executive Director, Tuckerton Seaport & Baymen’s Museum and Aimee E. Newell, Executive Director, Luzerne County Historical Society [...]
A First-Time Attendee’s Experience at #AASLH17
As a winner of one of the Douglas Evelyn Scholarships for Diversity, I felt extremely honored and excited to attend my first AASLH Annual Meeting. [...]
2017 Annual Meeting Wrap Up & Resources
First of all, thank you. Thank you to our program committee, the host committee and local institutions, our onsite volunteers, speakers, tour guides, [...]
Adding Star Power to the Fight for the NEH
The outlook for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is far more positive now than it was nine months ago when news leaked that [...]
Five Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in September
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 [...]
Top Takeaways from the #AASLH2017 Navigating Career Pathways Session
Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Annual Meeting in Austin for our session "Next Steps: Navigating Career Pathways with People Who’ve Been [...]
Apply for an AASLH Hurricane Cultural Relief Fund Mini-Grant
Program The Hurricane Cultural Relief Fund was developed to offer cultural organizations impacted by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma a gap fund to allow them to [...]