What Kind of Ancestor Will You Be?
By Omar Eaton-Martínez, AASLH 2020 Annual Meeting Program Chair Like many of you, I was disappointed in not being able to [...]
“Making Friends with Belly Dancers”: Q&A with a Small Museum in El Paso
By Laura Casey, Texas Historical Commission and AASLH Small Museums Affinity Community Q&A with Jeff Harris of the Magoffin Home State [...]
Authenticity and Authority: The Role of Historic Sites
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis Historic house museums, historic sites, and history museums constitute the largest class of museums in [...]
Five Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in June
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s [...]
What Are We Waiting For?
This article is from the Spring 2019 issue of History News, AASLH's quarterly magazine. Members can access the full issue [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]