More Visits to Paid-Entry Institutions
By John Garrison Marks and W. Maclane Hull This is post number four in our series exploring the National Visitation Report. Read the [...]
Visitation at Historic House Museums
By John Garrison Marks and W. Maclane Hull This is post number three in our series exploring the National Visitation Report. [...]
Small is Mighty: Visitation Growth Strongest at Small History Organizations
By John Garrison Marks and W. Maclane Hull Over the course of this week, we will be providing deeper dives on various components [...]
Chime In Before the Annual Meeting
Museum as Site for Social Action (MASS Action) Mia Convening, October 6-8, 2016, Minneapolis Institute of Art. Participants joined [...]
Conference Context: Corruption and Consequences in Kansas City’s Pendergast Era
Conference Context is a blog series discussing local history and contemporary topics in our next Annual Meeting destination: Kansas City, [...]
Five 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 program [...]
33 AASLH Members Receive Over $6 Million in NEH Grants
This month, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that it will award $43.1 million in grants for 218 humanities projects. [...]
Seven 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 History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study standards program designed [...]
Anticipating the Future Of Religious History
World’s Parliament of Religions, 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition We can’t predict the future. Yet as historians thinking critically about the relevance of history [...]
StEPs Enrollment Bonus Extended through February
Sign up for AASLH's StEPs program and begin 2017 with a road map and renewed enthusiasm! StEPs (Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations) guides even [...]
Saving WWII History: Preserving an Original Structure from an American Concentration Camp
In 2015, the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation (HMWF) rescued a structure used to incarcerate Japanese Americans during World War II. The 120 by 20 foot [...]
Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History
Thirty years ago, the Washington State Historical Society’s board of trustees, headed by publisher and historian John M. McClelland Jr., founded Columbia: The Magazine of [...]
Birthplace of Country Music Museum permanent exhibits
The Birthplace of Country Music Museum (BCMM) opened in August 2014 to tell the story of the 1927 Bristol Sessions recordings, explore how evolving sound technology shaped their [...]