Inclusivity During COVID-19: Creating a New Norm
By Richard Josey, Chair, AASLH Diversity and Inclusion Committee This morning, I watched two white Carrollton, Georgia, teenagers in a video [...]
From Heirloom Harvests to Victory Gardens: Museums Feeding Communities During COVID-19
By Michelle Moon When spring rolls around, Eric Jackson, head gardener at Old Salem Museums & Gardens, is normally setting up [...]
Relief and Research 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 [...]
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 [...]
Uniting Town and Gown: Municipal Museum Partners with Local Colleges
A portion of the Made for the Tourist Trade exhibition at the Greeley History Museum, open from January 18 – December 3, 2017. [...]
AASLH Emerging History Professionals Group Welcomes New Committee Members
The AASLH Emerging History Professionals Affinity Community is please to announce five new committee members joining the EHP Committee for the 2017-2019 term. Julia Kennedy [...]
Creative Audience Engagement Techniques from Award Winners
If your organization is looking for creative ways to engage your audience, here are four Leadership in History Awards winning projects with some unique approaches: Twitter [...]
What You Can Do on Summer Vacation
Did you ever have to write the typical “What I Did on Summer Vacation” essay on the first day of school? It seems like it [...]
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 [...]