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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 [...]
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 [...]
101 Ideas for New Revenue at History Organizations
Hand lettering by AASLH intern Rachel Lambert. Thanks to your support, we are excited to announce that we [...]
The Haymarket Project
The Haymarket Project features the film and exhibition, Haymarket: the Soul of the City, a Haymarket publication, and tours of Haymarket. The goal is to [...]
Re-envisioning the Ropes Mansion
In 2009, a fire forced the evacuation of the contents of the Peabody Essex Museum’s Ropes Mansion— a carefully preserved legacy of a single Salem [...]
The Private Jefferson: From the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Thomas Jefferson has been described as an “American Sphinx”: as the drafter of the Declaration of Independence and president of the United States, he is [...]
Cohn High School: How We Love Thee
In the summer of 2014, the West Baton Rouge Parish School board announced that the Cohn High School (1949-1969) would be demolished. Dedicated to the [...]
Purchased Lives: New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade, 1808–1865
Purchased Lives: New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade, 1808–1865 was a special project presented by The Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC) presented March 17–July [...]
4th Graders' QR Codes for Historic Sites in Lecompton, Kansas
What happens when a fourth grade teacher in a small town brings together the local elementary school, community volunteers, and two museums so that her [...]