Fifteen Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in December and January
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in the last two months! The Standards and Excellence Program for [...]
Announcing the History Leadership Institute Class of 2020
HLI Class of 2018 at the Indiana Medical History Museum. AASLH is excited to announce the History Leadership [...]
Update on #MeToo, AASLH, NCPH, and the Field
By Erin Carlson Mast, CEO and Executive Director, President Lincoln’s Cottage, Washington, D.C. A little over five months have passed since AASLH [...]
New Ideas and New Colleagues at #AASLH18
By Alyssa Jones, Blythewood Historical Society & Museum and South Carolina Department of Natural Resources My name is Alyssa Jones and [...]
Crowdsourcing Slavery Interpretation: Challenges and Responses
Courtesy of Montpelier Foundation. By Christian Cotz, Kristin Gallas, Linnea Grim, Richard Josey, and Joseph McGill During the [...]
Nomenclature: Now Available Online!
By Heather Dunn, Canadian Heritage Information Network Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is a standard for classifying and naming objects in [...]
Five Things Attendees Want You to Know Before Submitting a Session to #AASLH2019
The deadline for submitting sessions for the 2019 AASLH Annual Meeting in Philadelphia is December 7. Since we just wrapped [...]
A New Way to Hire Interpreters: Lessons from Old World Wisconsin
Members of the Madison Theater rehearse for the one-act play, "Over the Teacups." 1950. WHS Collection. We’re standing in a circle. I make [...]
AASLH Joins Over 100 Organizations Around the Country Endorsing the Values of History Relevance
Nashville, TN (March 15, 2017) — The American Association for State and Local History today joins more than 100 historical organizations around the country [...]
Connect with AASLH at the Tennessee Association of Museums Annual Meeting
Are you going to the Annul Meeting of the Tennessee Association of Museums this week? AASLH staff members will be speaking on seven sessions. We'll [...]
Managing Volunteers: Lessons Learned Through Experience
A volunteer talking to visitors at the Cincinnati Museum Center. We all know most non-profits run on volunteers. Working at a small historical [...]
Save the NEH! Call Your Members of Congress on March 14 for Humanities Advocacy Day
March 14 is Humanities Advocacy Day! A record-breaking number of humanities advocates are in Washington D.C. today, March 13th, meeting with hundreds of Members of [...]
The Path to Cultural Sensitivity? Inclusion and Co-Curation
Exhibition planning meeting in Los Angeles, for Go For Broke National Education Center. Interpretation has come a long way. In the past few [...]