URGENT: COVID-19 Advocacy Alert
Urge Your U.S. Legislators to Include Museums in COVID-19 Relief AASLH is working with AAM and other museum associations to make [...]
Share Your Thoughts on the Women’s History Affinity Group Forum!
Three medical students at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP), 1885. From left to right: Dr. Anandibai Joshi (India), [...]
Planning for the Evolving COVID-19 Situation
By Jennifer Kilmer, Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma, WA As Director of the Washington State Historical Society, I have been working [...]
Know a Leader in the History Field? Submit a Nomination for the Award of Distinction
Lonnie Bunch, 2017 Award of Distinction recipient. AASLH is seeking nominations for our most prestigious honor, the Award [...]
2018 AASLH Staff Picks for Historical Media
As 2018 comes to a close, AASLH staff wanted to share some of our favorite historical media we've encountered this [...]
16 Tips for Creating a Small Museum YouTube Series
By Jarrett Zeman, Assistant Director and Curator, The 1890 House Museum, Cortland, NY In 2018, the 1890 House Museum in [...]
Exploring History’s Relevance at #AASLH18
By Dulce Kersting-Lark, Executive Director, Latah County Historical Society, Moscow, ID I was so grateful to receive a Small Museums Scholarship [...]
Saving Hallowed Ground’s WWI Memorial Tree Program and Sharing Local History
Planting a memorial tree in Radnor, PA. On August 29, 1914, just months after the outbreak of what would come to be known [...]
Is There Something to Memento Mori? Interpreting Death at the W.H. Stark House
Master IAM of Zwolle. Memento Mori. Engraving. Late 15th Century. Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Public Domian) Memento Mori is a style of art [...]
Seven Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in February and March
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in the last two months! We especially commend the Fort Nisqually Living History Museum for their completion [...]
Liberating Threads, Liberating Histories
Michelle D. Flamer with her quilt New Century Poll Tax. As a history student at Morgan State University, Cynthia Neverdon participated in non-violent [...]
AASLH Announces Election Slate for Council and Leadership Nominating Committee
We are proud to announce the slate of candidates for four open spots on the AASLH Council and two spots on our Leadership Nominating Committee. [...]
Women Who Mentor: Laurel Miller, Interpretive Exhibits Manager, Draper Spark!Lab, National Museum of American History
The Draper Spark!Lab, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. One of the [...]