Moving Forward
By Randi Korn and Paul Pearson At a particularly bleak moment in December 1776, George Washington declared, “Desperate diseases require desperate [...]
Finding Our Way Together
By John Dichtl, President and CEO, AASLH Eight weeks into the pandemic (or more, depending on what part of the country [...]
Conversations and Surveys for History Organizations
As history organizations around the country adapt to the rapidly evolving public health situation, we'll be sharing resources and ideas from [...]
Book Review: Teaching with Primary Sources
This review originally appeared in the Winter 2019 issue of History News. Teaching with Primary Sources By Christopher J. Prom [...]
AASLH’s Task Force on Environmental Sustainability and Climate
By Sarah W. Sutton, Task Force Co-chair It’s an incredibly exciting time to be a history professional. I am frequently [...]
Citizen Historians, U.S. Newspapers, and the History of the Holocaust
This article is from the Winter 2019 issue of History News, AASLH's quarterly magazine. Members can access the full issue [...]
Looking Back and Moving Forward with History News
By Aja Bain, Associate Editor, History News When you receive the latest issue of History News magazine in the mail, [...]
AASLH Announces 2017 Small Museums Scholarship Winners
Now in their eleventh year, the Small Museums Affinity Group's annual scholarships help colleagues from small museums across the country join us at our Annual [...]
Deaccessioning and Capitalization of Collections
In late July, news broke in The New York Times, Boston Globe, and National Public Radio about the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, deciding to deaccession [...]
#AASLH17 Session: Commemorating Tragedy, Healing Wounds
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 [...]
Ask FSA: Introducing The Coalition of State Museum Associations (COSMA)
There are 46 state museum associations throughout the United States. Like field services staff, these associations work to provide assistance and service to museums and museum [...]
#AASLH17 Educators and Interpreters Sessions
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 [...]
Emerging History Professionals at the 2017 Annual Meeting
EHPs enjoying last year’s Annual Meeting mixer in Detroit. Image courtesy of Hannah Hethmon. On behalf of the Emerging History Professionals (EHP) Affinity [...]