From Oklahoma to Philly: A Scholarship Winner’s Perspective on #AASLH2019
By Natalie Wadle, Shawnee Tribe Cultural Center, Miami, OK This year I was fortunate enough to attend the AASLH Annual Meeting in [...]
Best Practices for StEPs Success
By Cherie Cook, Senior Program Manager, AASLH When I think about best practices for museums, my curatorial work from years ago kicks [...]
Making History Matter: Agency
Visitors at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum confront the choices made by local activists to challenge Jim Crow in Mississippi. Photo courtesy [...]
Coming Soon: Forgotten Fortunes
By Donovan Jacobs Does your state, county, city, or other region have a story about a historically important, valuable, or [...]
A Crisis of Faith: Interpreting Leonard Bernstein’s Music and Religion
Photos courtesy of Jessi Melcer. By Barbara Franco, independent scholar, museum consultant, and co-editor of Interpreting Religion at [...]
Explore Women’s History in Kansas City at #AASLH18!
Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration. By Megan Byrnes, incoming co-chair, AASLH Women's History Affinity Group [...]
Historic Prayers in Historic Churches
By Spencer W. McBride, Ph.D. One of my favorite historical sites to visit whenever I am in Philadelphia is Christ [...]
Hallowed Grounds: Sites of African American Memories
In February 2016, Stones River National Battlefield (SRNB) in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, debuted two public programs to celebrate Black History Month. On February 6, the park [...]
AASLH Responds to President’s Executive Order Restricting Entry to U.S.
Feb 1, 2017 AASLH Responds to President’s Executive Order Restricting Entry to U.S. At this moment, when the President of the United States has issued [...]
Advocacy Alert: Ask Your Legislators to Fund the ESSA
Last year, AASLH worked with the National Coalition for History to advocate for the reauthorization of the Every Student Succeeds Act. Signed into law in [...]
Liberty to Go to See
“Liberty to Go to See” is a dramatic encounter with one hundred years in the history of Cliveden and the topics of slavery, indentured servitude, [...]
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 [...]