Three Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in March
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in the last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study [...]
After the Pandemic: Thinking Ahead
By Avi Decter and Ken Yellis In the midst of the pandemic, our museums, sites, and organizations are preoccupied with loss [...]
Field Services Alliance Tips: Collections Care During COVID-19
By Samantha Forsko, Preservation Specialist, Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts, Philadelphia, PA The Problem: COVID-19 is changing the way [...]
You Start By Meeting Your Audience
NPS photo. By Mike Hudson, Director, Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind, Louisville, KY When I [...]
New StEPs Group Forms in Missouri
By Elizabeth Pickard, Director, Education and Interpretation, Missouri Historical Society Last month, the Missouri Historical Society launched its new StEPs working [...]
Book Review: Moving Image and Sound Collections for Archivists
This review originally appeared in the Autumn 2018 issue of History News. Moving Image and Sound Collections for Archivists By [...]
Local Government: Who and What Is It?
Read part one of the advocacy series here. Memorial City Hall in Auburn, New York. By Sean Blinn, Programming [...]
Master Local Historian: AASLH Launches Historian Training Program for the Public
A photograph of the Tennessee State Library and Archives building taken on July 17, 1956, a few short years after it opened in 1953.State [...]
To Do Rightly: Congregations as Incubators of American Activism
Photo by Victor Manuel Ramos. Courtesy of Arch Street Meeting House. Last year, the Arch Street Friends Meeting House in Philadelphia erected a [...]
Three Ways History Organizations Can Talk About Environmental History
Image from Ursus Among Us exhibit. Want to explore the intersection between the natural sciences and history at your organization? Here are three [...]
Volunteers Needed to Research and Write Biographical Sketches of Women Suffrage Activists
Women Suffragists picketing the White House, February 1917. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Since March 2015 the online journal and database, [...]
#AASLH17 Current Issues Forum: Call for Participants
Want to have your voice heard at the 2017 AASLH Annual Meeting? Current Issues Forum (CIF) chairs are looking for panels of ten to fifteen [...]
Advocacy Alert: Act Today to Preserve History Funding Across the Nation
Before the 4th of July passes, House members will begin building a tomorrow with or without crucial federal programs that support the work of our [...]