Understanding the New Valuing History Collections Position Paper
By AASLH Standards and Ethics Committee The AASLH Standards and Ethics Committee has compiled FAQs to help explain the new Valuing [...]
Field Services Alliance Tips: Re-opening Museums During COVID-19
By Laura Casey, Museum Services Coordinator, Texas Historical Commission, Austin, TX The Problem: The arrival of COVID-19 in January 2020 and [...]
How Do You Document Nothing?
By Harry Klinkhamer The COVID-19 pandemic has gripped the nation and the world. It has shut down economies and closed everything [...]
AASLH Receives Grant to Study Americans’ Attitudes Towards History
By John Marks, PhD., Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives, AASLH AASLH learned this week that we have received a major grant [...]
#AASLH2019: Explore More at an Evening Event
By McKenna Britton, Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia is an assemblage. A city created from a collage of [...]
#AASLH2019: More than the Founding Fathers: Places to Visit in Philadelphia
By David Young, Delaware Historical Society, Wilmington, DE AASLH 2019 Host Committee Co-Chair When AASLH last hosted its annual meeting [...]
#AASLH2019: Creative and Experimental Sessions
The four session tracks at the 2019 AASLH Annual Meeting in Philadelphia this August are designed to organize the [...]
Crowdsourcing Transcription and Creating Community
Are you seeking a way to involve community members and schools and, as a bonus, make your document collections easily accessible? To create such a [...]
Georgia Historical Society Honors Robert L. Brown, Jr.
AASLH Member Georgia Historical Society Honors Robert L. Brown, Jr. with John Macpherson Berrien Award “In grateful recognition of a lifetime of achievement in the field [...]
AASLH Announces IMLS Grant to Improve Our Continuing Education Program
We are excited to announce that AASLH is the recipient of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to improve and expand our Continuing [...]
Kettle Creek Battlefield: A Laboratory for Exploring Layers of Relevance
Symbolic Revolutionary War veterans’ cemetery at Kettle Creek. The Kettle Creek Revolutionary War Battlefield, located between modern Tyrone and Washington, Georgia, has a [...]
AASLH President and CEO’s Address 2017
President and CEO’s Address (Excerpt) AASLH Meeting of the Membership Austin, TX, September 8, 2017 Getting to Austin was difficult for many of you, and [...]
New Book Series from AASLH: Exploring the Stories of America’s Historic Treasures
This new series is aimed at paid and unpaid public history professionals as well as history lovers, particularly those who wish they could visit certain [...]