New Lighting Brings Big Changes to Small Museum
By Kelli Thomerson, Roanoke Visitor Center and Museum, Roanoke, TX Some people may think a small museum is amateur, but at the [...]
Seven Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in August
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards [...]
AASLH 2020 Call for Proposals
By Omar Eaton-Martínez, 2020 AASLH Program Chair The American Association for State and Local History will present its 2020 Annual Meeting in [...]
Conference Context: White Flight and Civil Rights in Johnson County, Kansas
Conference Context is a blog series discussing local history and contemporary topics in our next Annual Meeting destination: Kansas City, [...]
AASLH Members Encouraged to Submit Comments on Proposed Change Concerning Deaccessioning Proceeds
For more than twenty years, accounting standards from the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) have been out of alignment with [...]
Five Lessons From One Quirky Museum
While on vacation with my family in New England this summer, I had the joy of visiting the Umbrella Cover [...]
AASLH Announces Election Results
We are proud to announce the election results for four open spots on the AASLH Council, three Council officers, and two [...]
Mentors, Learners, Power
This article was originally published in November 2016 on the blog of Developing History Leaders @SHA, a three-week historic administration seminar AASLH puts on every [...]
Maryland Governor Restores Funding to Maryland’s Historic Preservation Grant Programs
Historic Maryland State Capitol in Annapolis Maryland Governor Larry Hogan included in his fiscal year 2018 budget over $979,000 to support grant funding [...]
StEPs Spotlight: The Pioneer Museum is Learning How to Better Serve their Audience
Exciting changes are happening at the 800+ organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations). Our "StEPs Spotlight" series [...]
We Can Do It! WWII
While many Americans are familiar with World War II events such as Pearl Harbor or D-Day, most are less familiar with aspects of the war that [...]
Challenges and Choices in Pennsylvania's Forests
“Challenges and Choices in Pennsylvania’s Forests” explores six time periods, from 800 BCE through the present, with the goal of illustrating the intended and unintended consequences of [...]
Cleveland in World War II
Cleveland in World War II is a collaborative work based on archival sources and contemporary interviews by journalist Brian Albrecht of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and [...]