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 [...]
Becoming a More Inclusive AASLH
By Richard M. Josey Jr., AASLH Diversity and Inclusion Committee Vice-Chair and Member of Council In September 2018, John Dichtl, President and [...]
The Way We Do the Things We Do: Making History-Making Visible
Photos of Sami people and others dressed as Sami at the Nordic Museum. By Benjamin Filene, North Carolina Museum of [...]
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 [...]
Something seems different…
Alright. You caught us. You might be noticing that aaslh.org looks a little (or a lot) different. That’s because for [...]
Book Review: Digital Preservation Essentials
This review originally appeared in the Spring 2018 issue of History News. Digital Preservation Essentials By Erin O'Meara and Kate [...]
Six Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in June
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mistakes Were Made
Note from blog editors: Sean Kelley and a panel presented a session at the 2016 AASLH Annual Meeting about the lies we tell at historic [...]
Meet the Staff–Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens/Akron Public Schools Place-Based Education Curricula
From October 2014 to November 2015, 736 fifth grade students participated in “Meet the Staff,” an experiential learning curriculum created in partnership with Akron Public [...]
Carillon Brewing Company
Carillon Brewing Company (CBC) is the first licensed production brewery in a museum. Dayton History’s newest project, this 10,000 square foot living history exhibit and [...]
The Old North State at War: The North Carolina Civil War Atlas
The Old North State at War: The North Carolina Civil War Atlas is a comprehensive study of the impact of the war on the Tar [...]
Civil Rights Sites Gain National Funding, Status
The Medgar Evers House The week leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s national holiday brought good news for civil rights sites [...]