Readjusting and Moving Forward
By John Dichtl, AASLH President and CEO Moving the AASLH conference online has been a challenge on multiple levels. While coordinating [...]
What Then Must Be Done?
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis For us, as for many Americans, the current crisis is the most consequential moment in [...]
Timing is Everything for #AASLH2020
By Alex Rasic, Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum and AASLH Council The pandemic has changed so much for us, both [...]
A Moment to Take Stock (and Keep Advocating)
Among its advocacy initiatives, AASLH is an associate member of the National Humanities Alliance (NHA), a nationwide coalition of organizations [...]
The ABCs of Fairmount Park: Architecture, Boats, and Cemeteries
By McKenna Britton, Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia If you follow the Schuylkill River north—past the steps where Rocky prepared, past [...]
Six Qualities of a Relevant History Experience
By Tim Grove, History Relevance initiative Museum educators and other staff that produce products for public consumption are trained to [...]
It’s What’s Inside That Counts: The ESSE Purse Museum
By Kathleen Pate, Immediate Past President, Arkansas Women's History Institute What started out as one woman’s collection of purses is [...]
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 [...]