The View From Here: Coronavirus and the Small Museum
By Elizabeth P. Stewart and the members of the AASLH Small Museums Committee: Jacqui Ainlay-Conley, Alison Bruesehoff, Aimee Newell, Ann Bennett, [...]
So Much Trouble in the World
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis The way earthly thin's are goin' Anything can happen. – “So Much Trouble in The World” [...]
Resources and Funding for History Organizations
(Your collections probably don't need masks, but you do need to think about their safety in other ways!) As [...]
Upcoming Changes to the History Leadership Institute
Indiana Historical Society, host of the History Leadership Institute Last year AASLH reimagined the former “Seminar for [...]
“It’s About Transparency and Respect”: An Interview with NAGPRA Liaison Sheila Goff
Mesa Verde National Park in southwest Colorado. Following a career that involved working with forty-eight tribes, 212 individual [...]
Research is Respect: the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund for Cemetery Preservation
By T. DeWayne Moore, Executive Director, Mt. Zion Memorial Fund, Oxford, Mississippi The Mt. Zion Memorial Fund is a research and historic [...]
AASLH’s National Visitation Survey
Two weeks ago, AASLH announced the opening of a national survey of visitation at history organizations. It marked the beginning [...]
Artful Encounters with Women’s History at the National Gallery of Art
Judith Leyster, Self-Portrait, c. 1630. National Gallery of Art. Women Artists at the National Gallery The National Gallery of Art’s collection focuses largely [...]
Beyond Passion Projects: Rethinking the Economic Models of Public History
Mural designed by Daisy Salto and painted by the sixth grade class at Mark Twain Elementary School, Chicago IL, 2016. Unveiled at the Chrysler [...]
Leveraging Technology to Do Better History
Digital technology is vast, constantly changing, and increasingly necessary to understand and utilize if your site wants to stay relevant. Here are four ideas from [...]
Call for Articles: Emerging History Professional Takeover of History News Magazine
Emerging History Professionals are taking over the Winter 2018 issue of AASLH’s History News magazine! The issue will be guest co-edited by emerging history professionals [...]
Service in Cultural Heritage
Elizabeth Cruzado Carranza (center) with students from the Maria Parado de Bellido Nº 88104 school in Nivín, Peru. (This blog was originally published [...]
Got Icelandic? This Project is Cataloging Icelandic Immigrant Manuscripts at U.S. Historical Organizations
During the late 19th Century and early 20th Century, thousands of Icelanders immigrated to North America. The majority settled in Canada—mostly in a Winnipeg, Manitoba colony called [...]