AASLH Receives Grant to Study Americans’ Attitudes Towards History
By John Marks, PhD., Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives, AASLH AASLH learned this week that we have received a major grant of $479,000 [...]
#AASLH2019: Explore More at an Evening Event
By McKenna Britton, Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia is an assemblage. A city created from a collage of peoples, cultures, [...]
#AASLH2019: More than the Founding Fathers: Places to Visit in Philadelphia
By David Young, Delaware Historical Society, Wilmington, DE AASLH 2019 Host Committee Co-Chair When AASLH last hosted its annual meeting in Philadelphia [...]
2018 Mutual Concerns of Air and Space Museums Conference
Call for Proposals The Program Committee of the Mutual Concerns of Air and Space Museums Conference is seeking session proposals [...]
Most Trust Museums as Sources of Historical Information
By John Dichtl, AASLH President and CEO Twenty years ago, we learned from Rosenzweig and Thelen’s The Presence of the Past: [...]
Lessons to Learn from Hollywood “History”
© 20th Century Fox The week after Christmas, I saw The Greatest Showman which is a highly imaginative [...]
2018 Small Museums Scholarships Available
Small Museums Scholarships 2018 AASLH Annual Meeting and Online Conference Kansas City, MO – September 26-29 DEADLINE: June 8 The [...]
Brand History and Authenticity: The Archive at Carhartt
Still from Carhartt's historically themed advertisement. “Making good is merely a matter of exerting sufficient energy.” I often return to this 1924 quote [...]
Sharing Nashville’s Civil Rights Past with the Police
Supervisors to first-responders attend training offered by staff of the Civil Rights Room of the Nashville Public Library. This article was originally published [...]
Historical Societies and the March of Time
By studying demographics, we can see that life for historical societies is about to change. But will it change on our terms, or not? If [...]
The Power of (Re-)imagination: Promoting Self-Care in the Workplace
Caitlin Williams was awarded a Small Museums Scholarship to attend the 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting. You can learn more about the AASLH Small Museums Scholarships here. [...]
Grappling with Unfolding Events
This article was originally published in the Summer 2016 issue of History News magazine, the official publication of AASLH. You can read the full article in PDF format [...]
Her Hat Was In The Ring: How Digital Collections Can Transform Our Understanding of the Past
Amid all the discussions about the unprecedented campaign for U.S. president by a woman candidate, it is important to have historical perspective. Until recently, scholarship [...]