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2021 Leadership in History Award Winners
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) proudly announces the winners of the 76th annual Leadership in History Awards, [...]
Why We Need a Civic Season
Courtesy Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center, photographer Boyd Lewis. By Claire Haley and Kristian Weatherspoon, Atlanta History [...]
AASLH Announces 2021 Annual Meeting Keynote Speakers
AASLH is pleased to announce our keynote speakers for the 2021 AASLH/AMA Annual Meeting in Little Rock September 22-25. We are [...]
StEPs Spotlight: Jackson County Historical Society
Exciting changes are happening at the more than 1,000 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program [...]
National Park Service Visitation and American Engagement with History
Martin Van Buren National Historic Site, Kinderhook, New York. By W. Maclane Hull, graduate student at the University [...]
Nine Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in September
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s [...]
Museums and Creative Aging
By Bill Tramposch, Aroha Senior Fellow for Museums and Creative Aging, American Alliance of Museums The American Alliance of Museums, [...]
Twitter, Taylor Swift, and a Crash Course in Women’s History
Montage of famous women: Hatshepsut, first female pharaoh of Ancient Egypt; Ieshia Evans, peaceful protester in Baton Rouge, LA; Harriet Tubman; Taylor Swift. Source: [...]
2018 Goal: Become a Small Museum Pro!
Are you a volunteer working in a small local museum? Are you a recent graduate whose degree did not fully prepare you for day-to-day work [...]
Call for Papers: Interpreting Labor History at Museums and Historic Sites
Interest in and support for labor unions is on the rise in the United States, especially among millennials. Younger Americans tend to view unions as one [...]
Managing Interpreters: Presentations as Road Maps
Meandering. Wandering aimlessly. Lost. Confused. Does this describe your worst road trip? Maybe it describes the conversations between the public and your front-line interpreters? As [...]
“Here’s a chance for that historian to do something”
“Here's a chance for that historian to do something…. what's her name?” -- James T. Kirk, “Space Seed,” Star Trek This is how the conversation [...]
Unpaid Internships in the Field
In recent days, several people have newly expressed concerns about the presence of unpaid internships in the history field and about the inclusion of these [...]