AASLH 19th Amendment Centennial Value Statement
Pictured here is Annie Sybil Thomas Jarret at the Republican National Convention in either the 1940s or 1950s held in Chicago. [...]
Improving Exhibits, One Step at a Time
By Sara Francis, Glenwood Springs Historical Society & Frontier Museum, Glenwood Springs, CO I am grateful to AASLH for awarding me the [...]
Extended! Enroll in StEPs and Receive Three Bonus Resources
The work that needs to be done at our nation’s museums is endless. But, as we all know, our energy and resources [...]
Six Organizations Earn StEPs Certificates in January
We congratulate these members who earned StEPs certificates in the last month! The Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations is AASLH’s self-study [...]
I Said Bang! A History of the Dirt Bowl, the Crown Jewel of the Most Basketball-Obsessed City in America
This project is the recipient of a 2017 History in Progress Award. Inaugural Dirt Bowl, 1969 In 1969, [...]
StEPs Spotlight: The Lillian E. Jones Museum
Exciting changes are happening at the nearly 1,000 organizations taking part in the StEPs program (Standards and Excellence Program for [...]
Book Review: The Past and Future City
This review originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of History News. The Past and Future City: How Historic Preservation [...]
Recap of Women’s History at the 2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting
Van Hoosen Farm, September 2016 visit. Photo by Susan Ferentinos. Our women’s history offerings at the joint meeting of the Michigan Museums Association [...]
Top Takeaways from the #AASLHMMA2016 Mentoring Roundtable
Thank you to everyone who joined us in Detroit for our Emerging History Professionals Mentoring Roundtable (and for our Happy Hour aftewards, pictured above). As [...]
What AASLH Attendees Want to Learn at the 2017 Annual Meeting
We sent all attendees of the 2016 Annual Meeting a survey to find out what we did right and what we could improve. In that [...]
Can I Call It A Coozy? Classifying the Iconic Beverage Holder in Collections
Shortly after Nomenclature 4.0 was released, a colleague of mine John Neill, Riley County Historical Museum contacted me through social media asking, “Not sure if I'm surprised [...]
Center for Home Movies Searching for Public Holdings of Amateur Films
The Center for Home Movies is undertaking, thanks to support from the Library of Congress and CLIR, a survey of home movies and amateur films in archival [...]
Museums Working with Communities: The Book
I am pleased to announce that my colleague Beth Bollwerk and I have a new book that will be available in the coming weeks – [...]