Navigating Discussions About Collections as Financial Assets
By Cherie Cook, Senior Program Manager, AASLH Last week, the AASLH Council adopted a revised and re-titled position paper to replace [...]
Phone Calls and Lip Balm: Small Museums Taking Care of Volunteers During COVID-19
A volunteer-led tour at the Center for Colorado Women’s History at the Byers-Evans House in Denver, Colorado. By Jacqui [...]
Are We Stronger Together?
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis In a recent blog, Randi Korn and Paul Pearson underscored the importance of each museum [...]
Book Review: Museums Involving Communities: Authentic Connections
This review originally appeared in the Winter 2019 issue of History News. Book Review: Museums Involving Communities: Authentic Connections By [...]
Introducing the AASLH History in Our Parks Task Force
By Shawn Halifax, Cultural History Interpretation Coordinator, Charleston County Park & Recreation Commission, Charleston, SC For over seventeen years, I’ve [...]
Heritage Planning for Sustainable Cultural Impacts
By Douglas Worts, AASLH Sustainability Task Force member In a recent column for History News, President and CEO John Dichtl [...]
History and Climate Change
This column originally appeared in the Winter 2019 issue of History News. By John R. Dichtl, AASLH President and CEO [...]
Ready and Rarin’ to Go Explore Women’s History in Austin!
Photograph of the march from Seneca Falls to the National Women’s Conference in Houston, 1977. Join us in Austin for two great opportunities [...]
#AASLH17 Sessions: Community Engagement and Teacher Professional Development
As we prepare for the 2017 Annual Meeting in Austin, the Educators and Interpreters Affinity Group Committee is trying an experiment. We’re giving presenters who are chairing sessions with [...]
Out of Storage and into the Classroom: Enriching the Curriculum with a Campus Archive
Naomi Niemann (Class of 2019) shares her work digitizing and transcribing an unpublished manuscript by Edward Beecher, first president of Illinois College, June 2017. [...]
AASLH Statement on Charlottesville
Rotunda at University of Virginia, Charlottesville. The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) abhors not only the violence of the clash [...]
AASLH Announces 3 New Books from Rowman & Littlefield
The AASLH Series at Rowman & Littlefield Publishers is proud to announce three new titles for summer. Covering a wide range of subjects from project [...]
StEPs Spotlight: Essex Historical Society is Achieving Success Through Change and Risk-Taking
Exciting changes are happening at the 900 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations). Our "StEPs Spotlight" blog series [...]